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🗓️ 25 July 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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In his monthly episode for The Story, former foreign secretary and Times columnist Lord Hague sits down with Lord Sebastian Coe - gold medal winning Olympian, president of World Athletics, former Tory MP and William’s old chief of staff - to discuss how to tackle doping, should athletes from pariah nations be banned and finding a place for transgender competitors.
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Host: William Hague.
Guest: Lord Sebastian Coe, president, World Athletics.
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0:16.0 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 23% in 2023. |
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0:30.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
0:36.2 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. |
0:39.5 | It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
0:43.8 | Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
0:46.3 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon |
0:50.4 | and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
0:56.1 | 2023 v..com slash and not all. From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. |
1:09.0 | I'm William Haig. Hague. |
1:15.0 | My guess this month is my old friend. |
1:18.0 | Lord Sebastian Coe, President of World Athletics and Gold Medal winning Olympian. |
1:24.0 | He's the man who brought the 2012 Olympics to London. |
1:28.0 | We spoke about how he got our late Queen to agree to that helicopter stunt with James Bond in the opening ceremony. |
1:37.5 | The first person I spoke to was the Princess Royal. |
1:41.2 | I had the challenge of explaining to her what was being |
1:46.0 | thought and Her Majesty would leave with James Bond and get into the helicopter |
1:51.0 | the helicopter would fly underneath the bridges and I would never in a |
1:56.4 | million years have guessed the first question I got. |
2:01.8 | We covered his recent visit to Ukraine to understand the challenges their athletes are facing. |
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