Your Best Political Impressions
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
After discovering the voice of the self-service checkouts at Tesco sounds like Rishi Sunak, Matt is joined by comedians Jon Culshaw, Debra Stephenson and Rory Bremner for their best political impressions, and to rate listener's attempts.
Plus: Columnists India Knight and James Marriott discuss whether protests should be banned outside MPs offices, are faux flowers naff, and why the North isn't as cool as it used to be.
Columnists: (03:17)
The Big Thing: (23:30)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Tom Whipple, science editor at The Times. |
| 0:02.8 | At the Life Sciences Summit coming up this March, |
| 0:05.4 | The Times and Sunday Times Scotland |
| 0:07.4 | will be joined in Aberdeen by some of the most exciting entrepreneurs |
| 0:10.7 | and investors in the life sciences sector. |
| 0:13.0 | We'll be exploring what's next from this dynamic high growth sector, |
| 0:16.5 | touching on everything from how AI is affecting drug discovery |
| 0:19.7 | to how a product gets to market in a highly competitive global landscape. |
| 0:23.8 | Buy your ticket today at Times-event.com |
| 0:27.6 | forward slash life sciences. Hello, I'm Matt Jolly. This is Politics Without the Boring Bits. |
| 0:40.8 | Coming up on today's episode after I discovered that my |
| 0:45.3 | local Tesco self-service check-out sounds quite a lot like Rishi Sunak. It got us |
| 0:50.5 | thinking about political impressions so I'm joined by, well literally the best possible |
| 0:54.4 | lineup of impressionist, John Colshaw, Rory Brenner and Deborah Stevenson, |
| 0:57.6 | rating your impressions and giving us a guide to, you know, how to do a Rishi Sunaka Kirstama of Angela Rayna. |
| 1:05.0 | Does anybody need a Bridget Phillips and we'll do that in our big thing. |
| 1:09.0 | Before that, the columnist, India Knight and James Marriott on protesting outside MPs Homes and are fake flowers |
| 1:16.6 | NAF. |
| 1:17.6 | And of course we'll take a look at what we learned this week and if you like what |
| 1:19.8 | you're here on the podcast you can join me for Politics out the boring bits live on Times Radio on your |
| 1:25.0 | DAB radio on your smart speaker or download the Times Radio app that's Politics Without the |
| 1:29.8 | Boring Bits weekdays from 10. Now every Friday on the podcast I like to take a look at what we learn this week but now we've got |
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