"You have no authority here, Luke Jones"

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Luke Jones sits in for Matt Chorley and speaks to Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Kent Dominic Abrams and Former Chief Constable for Manchester Police Sir Peter Fahy to find out how the pandemic has changed our relationship with authority. Plus an interview with the first of our 'Pre-Pandemic Professors', Professor of Public Health at Edinburgh University Linda Bauld, to discuss the life behind the expert. Also Libby Purves and Rachel Sylvester on sitcoms and the impact of school admission rules on children born in the summer.

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1:01.5	slash change. Hello, welcome to the Times Red Box podcast. I'm not
1:08.8	maturely. Here's off all this week trying to hoover through some of his farm vouchers which
1:14.2	he's got lying around. I'm Luke Jones sitting in all week on the podcast and on the time
1:19.1	radio show as well. Today on the podcast we've got absolutely loads. We'll hear from our regular
1:22.8	columnists. We're going to think about authority through the pandemic and whether it's changed,
1:28.0	Dominic Cummings said way back in the beginning of the pandemic officials didn't think any of us
1:32.5	would go necessarily for the harsh restrictions. Has that changed? We will hear from a former
1:37.6	Supreme Court justice, a former top cop and also a sociologist on that as well. Also,
1:43.2	a feature we're doing all this week is our pre-pandemic professors. We're hearing so often from
1:50.3	experts, doctors, virologists, immunologists, professors of public health, but who are they?
1:56.2	What were they doing before the pandemic? It turns out very interesting lives. One of them,
2:00.5	and can you guess which member of SAGE is a huge fan of Amdram and does it in their spare time?
2:06.7	We'll find out about that this week. Anyway, let's kick things off with our columnists. Today
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