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Politics Unpacked

Women in Science

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Red Box reporter, Esther Webber, and Times' columnist Robert Crampton pick over the day's news; Matt Chorley marks International Day of Women and Girls in Science by speaking to three prominent scientists, Payal Jain, Professor Monica Grady, Professor Lorna Dawson and the science minister Amanda Solloway. 




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0:00.0

This episode of Red Box is brought to you in association with SSE, a leading clean energy

0:06.0

champion, accelerating the transition to net zero. SSE is investing over £9 million a day

0:14.3

in cleaner, more secure, homegrown energy. That includes transforming networks across the country

0:20.4

to connect renewable energy, households and businesses to a greener grid, pioneering low carbon

0:27.1

flexible technologies such as carbon capture and storage and building the world's largest

0:32.5

offshore wind farm, a doggar bank off the coast of Yorkshire. When complete, doggar bank will

0:38.3

be capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean renewable energy, a major step

0:45.2

towards the UK achieving net zero carbon emissions. And all this is creating thousands of sustainable

0:52.8

green jobs in communities right across the UK. Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.com

1:01.5

slash change.

1:22.8

Next week, Luke normally co-present times radio weekend breakfast at Friday Saturday Sunday with

1:27.9

Jenny Cleveland but yeah he'll be in the hot seat all next week so be nice to him.

1:31.5

Anyway we round off this week with a lovely show actually coming up it was international

1:37.1

women and girls in science day so we thought we'd mark that just by speaking to some very

1:42.4

cool female scientists. Really really nice chat coming up including someone who's held a bit of

1:48.0

Mars rock in their hands and broken it in half. Really good lovely chat coming up.

1:52.4

First though the economy's panel it's Thursday so it must be WebCram that's Esther Webber and Robert

1:56.8

Crampton. Let's start with the tricky issue of overhauling the NHS. You can tell

2:12.4

that the Tory party's been through several iterations now because there aren't many of them left

2:18.0

who were there the last time round when they did this in 2012 and Val everyone involved,

2:23.9

Val never to do it again with the landsley reforms back then but now Matt Hancock announced

2:28.7

today another overhaul of the way the NHS is organised in England. Promising to cut down on

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