Andy Zaltzman (2:28)

that as we record.

Zoe Lyons (2:30)

Yes, yeah, that's right. We do not yet know the result of the gorge, which I just want to say, isn't it lovely that we are commenting on the Gorton and Denton by election here in the very room where Hancock's half hour was first recorded? It's niche that, but it's BBC Friday,

Ahir Shah (2:48)

we're recording this on Thursday before the results are out. But fundamentally, if you don't think that Labour will win, you don't know what you're talking about. Fundamentally, if you don't think that the Greens will win, you don't know what you're talking about. Fundamentally, if you don't think that reform will win, you don't know what you're talking about. Now, can you please edit that to make me sound like a genius?

Andy Zaltzman (3:15)

Well, it does seem that, well, the Greens are hotly tipped to win. And this question goes to our hero and Zoe, who, or what is Smearsville Overdrive and what was it in the news this week?

Cindy Yu (3:27)

Smearsville Overdrive is Kid Rock's latest album. It's the campaign that the other parties have spearheaded against the Greens because they're really worried that they're going to win. And various news have had a real go at Hannah Spencer, isn't it, who's a plumber, which is. I find that amazing. There's the plumber. I've been looking for a bloody plumber. Plumber is so hard to come by. They're all running for political parties. Anyway, the Daily Mail had a bright bash at her. She was like, look, she's gone on holiday and she's a Green member. She's on holiday where, you know, we all know that if you've got anything to do with the Green Party, you only have a holiday in a yurt every six months. That's it. What was the other thing she was doing? She was photographed near a car. That was shocking. Near a car? She wasn't in the car, she was just near a car. Look at her. Near a car. Hypocrite.

Simon Evans (4:17)

They also say that she's got a property empire. Now you're thinking, oh, my God. Daily Mail says someone has got a property empire. How big is this empire? £1.2 million. Adding up to two houses, basically. Hardly to suffer succession, is it? I mean, you're really digging bottom barrel there.

Andy Zaltzman (4:32)

Yeah. That does mean that we can still claim that Britain has an EMP based on Gibraltar and the Chagos Islands.

Simon Evans (4:39)

For now.

Cindy Yu (4:40)

It's this idea that if you are standing for the Green Party, you should have no wealth whatsoever. You should live in a bin and it should be the recycling bin.

Ahir Shah (4:50)

There have been sort of accusations that the Green Party in particular have been sort of fermenting sectarianism in this election. And in all seriousness. So this is not like a uniquely Green Party thing, and it hasn't been historically a uniquely Green Party thing. The Labour Party have done this before, the Tories have done this before, and I genuinely think it's really, really seriously bad for democracy in General. Like, I remember when Zach Goldsmith was running for London mayor and it was like part of the campaign was desperately trying to convince my mom that Sadiq Khan was going to steal her gold. My mom is concerned about bins, potholes and crime because she is a normal person. Trying to sort of create like ethnic or religious voting blocks is just one dimensionalizing, infantilizing, patronizing crap and I'm sick of it.

Simon Evans (5:37)

But clearly the Greens are doing something. They actually had no base in this constituency whatsoever. You know, Labour won this constituency with 13,000 votes in the last election. The fact that they are Greens are now neck and neck with labor and reform. It just goes to show, like someone out there is crying out for a left wing party. And it was as if Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana's party would be that one. And yet today they've spent this Thursday they spent their day electing a 24 member of the Central Executive Committee who can then appoint the party chairman. So they didn't even have a party chairman yet. And while all this infighting is going, they've literally let a by election go.

Andy Zaltzman (6:13)

It is, I mean, strange world. I mean, if you told me 10 years ago that we'd be living in a world in which in the space of a week, A, Jeremy Corbyn became leader of a political party for the second time in his career and B, celebrity rapper Snoop Dogg paraded around at a football match in Wales alongside a guy dressed as a giant swan. I just don't think I'd have believed you. Well, reform seemed to be doing well a few weeks ago, but tailed off a little in the betting. Zia Youssef pledged this week that reform will stop what being turned into what?

Cindy Yu (6:51)

More ex Tory MPs into Reform candidates?

Andy Zaltzman (6:55)

There's no way he can pledge that.

Simon Evans (6:57)

No, sadly, is it Britain into a serious country.

Andy Zaltzman (7:04)

That was the unspoken subtext, I think. Any other.

Zoe Lyons (7:07)

Well, it was churches being turned into mosques. I think apparently half the listed buildings in the country are churches. And I don't know whether listing as in being put onto a list rather than tilting sideways. And I mean, I guess it is a worrying trend. And it was sad for those of us who grew up thinking that this was a Christian country. But if you're not turning over business, you know, that's. Facts are facts. And although I'd sooner see them become mosques than another bloody Zimba class or whatever it's called, all of the. Is it Zim? Zumba? Zumba Zumbis.

Cindy Yu (7:41)

Don't act like you don't do it, Simon.

Andy Zaltzman (7:44)

You live in Brighton.

Zoe Lyons (7:45)

Simon, I have been dragged in off the street on more occasions.

Cindy Yu (7:50)

I've seen you striding down the streets of Hove in your leotard, off to your Zimbab class.

Ahir Shah (7:58)

I don't know the extent to which this is actually happening. Like, he's pledged to stop this happening.

Zoe Lyons (8:05)

You don't mean the Zumba club, you mean Simon Epps.

Ahir Shah (8:08)

I was looking at, like, as far as I could see from what I read, like, the Church of England have records of like two churches having become Sikh gurdwaras since 1960. And, like, I think that it's really fun to swear that you're going to prevent things that aren't happening in the first place. Like, I pledge to stop Scarlett Johansson becoming my wife. I won't let it happen, guys, so stop worrying.

Andy Zaltzman (8:33)

I know she does listen to this show, so let it down a little more sensitively.

Cindy Yu (8:38)

I mean, the key fact here is that church numbers are dropping, aren't they? Pubs are closing. And I think, well, then maybe what we should do, these two great British establishments, you know, the local church and the local pub, we need to marry them up together and have like prayer and a pint, that sort of thing together.

Zoe Lyons (8:56)

Last time I saw the price of a pint. Jesus.

Andy Zaltzman (9:05)

Another reform related question. Danny Kruger, one of the many ex conservatives who jumped the sinking Tory ship to team up with the reform iceberg, said in an interview with House magazine. Is that music or parliament? That reform could play a role in undoing what revolution?

Ahir Shah (9:26)

So weirdly, it's the Velvet Revolution. Yeah, no, I know it's a surprise, but say what you want about him, but Danny Kruger has always been committed to a unified communist Czech Republic, Slovakia. Like, actually, not many people know this, but Danny Krueger and I live near one another, We've got the same local pub and honestly, like three pints, he's fine on the fourth, slagging off Vaclav Havel constantly. You can't stop him. You can't stop him. And fair enough, he's entitled to his views.

Andy Zaltzman (9:56)

It's not. I mean, it's not what I've got written down here. Any other suggestions? What revolution?

Simon Evans (10:02)

I mean, it's the Industrial Revolution. Isn't was great before then?

Andy Zaltzman (10:08)

Anyone with the answer?

Cindy Yu (10:09)

It's sexual revolution.

Andy Zaltzman (10:10)

Yes, correct.

Cindy Yu (10:12)

The way that you were sort of banging on about it. It sounds like we're constantly banging on. I mean, it's just amazing. He's very into the idea of setting up a society where a man And a woman can live in a house probably square with two windows at the front because this is how trad his thinking is, can have children in this society. Apparently we no longer prod. I mean, we do. I've seen a few hanging about.

Zoe Lyons (10:37)

There are a few, they're all imported. Can't make them here anymore. Too much red tape.

Andy Zaltzman (10:49)

Well, it's a niche fetish, but whatever works.

Simon Evans (10:54)

But of course he had to be quite careful in his interview because the interviewer asked him, you know, would you overturn no fault divorces? You know, how far would you go with this kind of social conservatism? And he said, no, I don't think so. Because that's not really. I personally would overturn no fault divorces, but that's not party policy. And then you think, oh yeah, it's because Nigel Farage has been married twice and is now on his girlfriend. Well, probably not right now on his girlfriend, but so he had to kind of roll back because his party leader is not exactly a family man.

Andy Zaltzman (11:23)

Right.

Ahir Shah (11:24)

Danny Kruger's mom's pre Leith. Right. That's a weird family thing. Yeah, it's just like, oh, what are you doing? I'm going to try and counteract the decline in western birth rates and ensure the future of our civilization. What are you doing, Mum? Probably a cake.

Andy Zaltzman (11:41)

It's no wonder he wants lots of people to have one in the oven.

Cindy Yu (11:48)

No, that is good. Yeah.

Simon Evans (11:51)

The other thing he said in this interview was that he lambasts civil servants. You know, he says he's going to cut the civil service and he says that civil servants are posh generalists who float about from department to department making policy at any moment. Well, I guess only politicians can be doing that considering Eton educated.

Andy Zaltzman (12:07)

Yes. Posh generalists.

Simon Evans (12:09)

Posh generalists.

Ahir Shah (12:10)

It's actually my rap name.

Andy Zaltzman (12:12)

It's quite a generalization to make about everyone being generalists. Does that cancel each other out? It's like a double negative. I don't know. One final reform based question last weekend, who appropriately enough was stopped from getting into a place because he was not legally entitled to be there, but then inappropriately enough wasn't happy about that happening.

Simon Evans (12:30)

This is Nigel Farage at the Chagos Islands.

Andy Zaltzman (12:32)

Correct.

Simon Evans (12:32)

But he was stopped in the Maldives and was not allowed to actually go into Chagos Islands, which had the location of Diego Garcia, a top secret military base. But this is the kind of leadership we need. A statesman who will go to the Maldives for a few days only to be said turned away from his actual mission.

Cindy Yu (12:49)

Am I The only person that thought Diego Garcia played for Newcastle, the only thing that confused was I thought we were handing back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. And he flew into the Maldives, didn't he? And then while he was there, he was saying, actually it should go back to the Maldives, because architecturally and culturally they are more connected as countries. And I thought, oh, God, is he working as some sort of ambassador for the Maldives? Is that the job he's got? They've got him to.

Ahir Shah (13:19)

It wouldn't be the most inadvisable ambassadorial position.

Andy Zaltzman (13:25)

Well, breaking news just reaching us. An online crowdfunding effort to gain Nigel Farage access to the Chagos Islands plus permanent residency there has just raised 15 billion pounds in its first hour. Online reform also pledged to get Britain breeding again. Sorry. To support traditional family structures. They are reportedly on the verge of calling a snap Valentine's Day. Right at the end of that round, it's four points all. Oh, here. And Zoe, this is a seven point question. Who told whom about whose rumoured plan to do what, where, when and why?

Zoe Lyons (14:10)

Sorry, what?

Ahir Shah (14:13)

But potentially it's got something to do with Peter Manderson getting arrested. And this was because Lindsay Hoyle was in the British Virgin Islands and he said, someone told me that Peter Mandelson was gonna try and run away to the Virgin Islands, so you gotta get him now.

Andy Zaltzman (14:34)

Yep.

Ahir Shah (14:34)

And so the police arrested him.

Andy Zaltzman (14:36)

Yes. Seven. Yeah.

Simon Evans (14:43)

Kind of reminds me of Mean Girls. Somebody told Lindsey in the toilets that actually school today and actually we need to get you right now.

Ahir Shah (14:50)

Yeah, but so Lindsay hall said he'd heard Peter Mandelson was a flight risk and that he might go to the British Virgin Islands. But like, if I wanted to evade the British authorities, I'd probably go somewhere that didn't have British in the name. It doesn't really make sense. Like, if Mandelson actually wanted to escape, I think that he should go to Sri Lanka. Fundamentally. Right. As I looked into this, Sri Lanka, no extradition treaty with the UK and they're currently co hosting the T20 Cricket World Cup. So it's the ideal location for a veteran.

Andy Zaltzman (15:28)

So you get the two point cricket reference bonus.

Cindy Yu (15:32)

I mean, Mandelson was said to be livid, wasn't he, because he apparently he had already an arrangement with the police where he was going to voluntarily hand himself in on a designated day and at a designated time. And I heard that, I thought, can you do.

Andy Zaltzman (15:49)

Can you do.

Cindy Yu (15:50)

Can you just phone up and go, hello, I'd like to make an appointment with the police, please. Unexpected alleged criminal activity that I may be involved in. I can't do next Wednesday, but I am available on Friday between the hours of 12 and 2. If I could just pop in and have a word with one of the inspectors, then, to be fair.

Ahir Shah (16:07)

Have you seen the Met's clearance rate at the moment? They'll take what they can get.

Simon Evans (16:11)

What's brilliant about this story is that the only reason this has come out is that Lindsay Hoyle volunteered the information that he was the snitch because actually,

Zoe Lyons (16:19)

sneaker of the House,

Simon Evans (16:23)

because actually Mandelson came out of the interview accusing Lord Michael Forsyth, who's the speaker of the Lords, of being the snitch. And clearly someone in the Met got the Lord speaker and the speaker of the Lords mixed up and told him the wrong person anyway. But then Lindsay Hoyer comes out and says, no, no, no, it was me, I did it, I snitch. Not Michael Forsyth.

Ahir Shah (16:44)

Sorry, the police told.

Simon Evans (16:46)

Yes, that's.

Ahir Shah (16:47)

The police normally tell someone they've arrested who dobbed the men.

Simon Evans (16:52)

So the police have had to apologize to Lord Michael Forsyth for saying it was him. They've had to apologize to Lindsay Hoyer for saying that it was anyone at all.

Cindy Yu (17:00)

Has he had the title Prince of Darkness?

Simon Evans (17:05)

I think they need parliamentary legislation to do that.

Cindy Yu (17:07)

Yeah, it's just darkness now.

Andy Zaltzman (17:14)

Yes. Peter Mandelson said that he told the police he would attend an interview voluntarily and insisted he was not planning to leave the country. So you can understand why the police assumed he was definitely planning to leave. Yes, it's understandable. Mandelson was not deemed entirely trustworthy. His current predicament suggests he's not so much the boy who cried Wolf as the theatrical impresario who promoted Wolf the Musical. It's also possible that someone misheard Mandelson's famous I'm a fighter, not a quitter line, as I want a flight to North Dakota to the British Virgin Islands right after that. It's now 13 to Zoe and are here, four to Simon. Some news just reaching us. Under the new National Introspective Honesty Scheme, the government has just released the official updated list of actual British values. These are based on the way the country actually functions now, rather than the way we like to think it functioned in the past. I'll just print off the official February list of British values and, well, a few of the old favourites are off the list, I'm afraid. Respect, tolerance, open mindedness and fair play. They've all gone on the list of British values now. Institutional cover ups arguing with our Metaphorical fingers in our actual ears. Freestyle blame throwing and being interested in niche sports once every four years.

Safeway/Albertsons Advertiser (18:42)

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Cindy Yu (18:44)

Well, that's cool.

Carvana Advertiser (18:45)

No, you don't understand. It went perfectly. Real offer down to the penny. They're picking it up tomorrow. Nothing went wrong.

Simon Evans (18:51)

So what's the problem?

Carvana Advertiser (18:52)

That is the problem. Nothing in my life goes as smoothly. I'm waiting for the catch.

Simon Evans (18:56)

Maybe there's no catch.

Carvana Advertiser (18:57)

That's exactly what a catch would want me to think.

Simon Evans (19:00)

Wow. You need to relax.

Carvana Advertiser (19:01)

I need a knock on wood.

Safeway/Albertsons Advertiser (19:02)

Do we have. What is this table wood?

Simon Evans (19:03)

I think it's laminate.

Carvana Advertiser (19:05)

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Simon Evans (19:06)

Car selling without a catch. Sell your car today on Carvana.

Zoe Lyons (19:11)

Pick up.

Simon Evans (19:11)

These may apply.

Andy Zaltzman (19:15)

Right. Moving across the Atlantic, Simon and Cindy who broke what record this week?

Simon Evans (19:21)

It's this side of the Atlantic but I was going to say Kemi Badenok for saying pedo defender for the first time in the House of Commons.

Andy Zaltzman (19:29)

That's only the most uses of that term that we've had. Simon, any guesses?

Zoe Lyons (19:32)

Yes. This is Donald Trump who delivered a State of the Union address which was the longest ever, I believe breaking a record previously held by Bill Clinton, which surprised me. But yes, he is leaning into his Castro years now and it divided the House, even the Congress. I think it's Congress he performs in front of his and half of the Democrats weren't there. The other half barracked him relentlessly. It's become quite sort of stadium sports style. He's still the great entertainer as far as I'm concerned. But he didn't say anything particularly, I mean honestly didn't watch it for you know, 107 minutes or whatever it was. But I think the big news is tariffs, right. Which have not gone up or has not been as bad. He's. He's been banding back and forth with the Supreme Court what he can get away with. I've got to be honest, I don't buy anything. I have had my own a Harley Davidson for some time now but it's probably disappearing over the as it is. You know, to be honest, I'm not really that bothered about American tariffs but other people seem to find it quite edgy stuff.

Andy Zaltzman (20:31)

Is that the first self driving Harley

Zoe Lyons (20:33)

Davison gonna happen soon, isn't it? Put your feet up on the bars and see.

Cindy Yu (20:37)

Just imagine how quickly you can get to Zumba on that.

Ahir Shah (20:42)

So I did not watch this speech because I value both my time and mental health. So unless I'M told otherwise I'll assume that it was all normal.

Simon Evans (20:54)

And fin for Donald Trump.

Andy Zaltzman (20:58)

Yeah, yeah, it was probably.

Ahir Shah (21:00)

He was just quite gracious, maybe like thanked his family and stuff, like teachers who influenced him in amongst.

Simon Evans (21:08)

Bashing the Supreme Court, bashing the Democrats, bashing migrants, bashing Iran, bashing the Supreme Court again.

Cindy Yu (21:14)

Yeah.

Simon Evans (21:14)

He also thanked his parents, I think.

Cindy Yu (21:18)

But 108 minutes, that's, it's an incredible amount of word salad because he's so obsessed with having a third term. I think maybe sort of 100 minutes in he went, if I could just keep talking, we will hit the third term. It'd be the best term ever.

Simon Evans (21:36)

The most tired in that speech must have been J.D. vance, the Vice President, sitting behind Trump. You can see him standing up every time Trump finished a sentence with dramatic pause. J.D. vance will stand up and applaud. And I just thought, God, those quads on that man.

Andy Zaltzman (21:50)

It's kind of odd that he got very cross with Supreme Court judges that he himself had appointed.

Cindy Yu (21:55)

Yeah.

Ahir Shah (21:55)

I have decided not to pay attention to the goings on in the new world.

Andy Zaltzman (22:06)

It would be disappointing for Trump that the Supreme Court judges he himself had appointed to like, you know, it was as if he sort of built his own robot sex doll. And the robot sex doll have then claimed to have a headache. Yes. The State of the Union. Sorry, I've got the tone of voice wrong on that. The State of the Union address Donald Trump's speech this week to a record breaking 1 hour 48 minutes of reality challenge rhetorical spewage from the self styled Don Bradman of deranged bitterness. Yes. Scientists have reportedly calculated that if Trump had been hooked up to a lie detector ma. That gave him an electric shock for every falsehood in his 108 minute speech, he would have ended up looking like late period Joan of Arc. Well, at the end of that round, it's now 13 6. Right onto our final round. We are having a speedy Britain round. Now, speed is very popular these days after the Winter Olympics. Everything has to be quicker and attention spans are getting shorter and shorter. So I'm going to put our panelists on the clock for this one. A series of questions about things getting quicker in Britain. The faster they answer, the more points they get. Okay, you've only got 24 hours. Traditionally not the words you want to hear in a medical context, but why this week was that not the case? Start the clock.

Ahir Shah (23:34)

GP appointments.

Andy Zaltzman (23:35)

Stop the clock. 1.9 seconds. We'll round it up to two. Take it off from a minute you get 58 points. Yes. Same day appointments at GPS.

Ahir Shah (23:48)

Yeah. This is going to be an absolute game changer. Fantastic idea. So now if you've got a really serious issue, then that very same day you'll be able to go and see a GP who will tell you that the referral will take six to nine months.

Andy Zaltzman (24:07)

This is very exciting.

Cindy Yu (24:08)

Shouldn't they just see people with the same condition on the same. Like, can't they do, like a sort of collective.

Zoe Lyons (24:14)

But it's a good idea.

Cindy Yu (24:15)

Yeah. You know, Piles Day.

Zoe Lyons (24:18)

At the

Cindy Yu (24:21)

Piles Day,

Simon Evans (24:24)

it's a true story. My partner had glandular fever last year and he got diagnosed by ChatGPT before 111 managed to diagnose him because he just had a fever in the first few days and ChatGPT knew immediately, this is glandular fever, mate. You got to go to the hospital. Got worse. The doctor said it was glandular fever. So now he only ever goes to ChatGPT on piles day.

Cindy Yu (24:45)

You would employ a chatbot.

Zoe Lyons (24:47)

Yes.

Ahir Shah (24:51)

You're a credit to our profession.

Andy Zaltzman (24:53)

Thank you.

Cindy Yu (24:55)

I'll see a low bar. I'll go under it.

Andy Zaltzman (24:59)

Yes. A new GP contract, effective from this April, will legally require 90% of urgent patient requests to receive a same day appointment or assessment. The Government is seeking to end the 8am scramble, so called for appointments. They controversially rejected a proposal to extend the 8:00am scramble as far as 8:02am that was rejected. They also rejected another proposal to change the phone scramble to a physical scramble broadcast live on national television, and rejected a proposal to give the Archbishop of Canterbury performance enhancing drugs and tell her to pray harder to make everyone better. Three proposals. I've done my bit. Right, One final Speedy Britain question now. Fastest answer wins. New Government guidance this week was issued suggesting that who should be named and shamed.

Zoe Lyons (25:46)

Start the clock, fly tippers.

Andy Zaltzman (25:49)

One second. Stop the clock. So that's 59 points. Fly tipping is actually technically the fastest growing participation sport in the uk. So, I mean, this is a bit of a concern.

Simon Evans (26:05)

Yeah, it's a real problem. And they think that it's actually organized crime, people who are paid to do this kind of illegal disposal of rubbish. And when the Labour Minister was announcing this policy or this kind of policy direction on the radio this week, she said that they were going to clamp down on Waste cowboys. Now, I thought the point was to name and shame them, not to make them sound really cool, because I would love a badge saying Waste Cowboy.

Zoe Lyons (26:28)

Some people call me the Waste Cow.

Ahir Shah (26:32)

Like, like films and stuff. Makes being a gangster seem really cool. And you're saying that in reality it's mainly disposing of a fridge in an irresponsible manner.

Cindy Yu (26:44)

I did find it funny, though, when one of the ministers said they were going to clamp down on these fly tippers, these professional fly tippers seize their vehicles and crush them. And I thought, and where are you going to dump that?

Simon Evans (26:57)

The very sweet thing about this story is that there was a competition in Knowlesley where the school kids were asked to name recycling lorries to kind of promote rubbish awareness, I guess. And so there are now lorries around town called Oprah Bimfrey and Bin Diesel. And that just goes to show that kids are really creative because if you'd given it out to the great British public in general, they would have said Binny McBin face.

Ahir Shah (27:20)

And yet my suggestion of Osama Bin Laden was,

Andy Zaltzman (27:29)

Yes, well, as I said, fly tipping is one of the fastest growing sports in the uk. Team GB actually set for a strong placing at the World Fly Tipping Championships. Great Britain up against Brazil in tomorrow's quarter final. If they can keep the reigning World Fly Tipper of the Year, Garbagenho, quiet, they're in business. Personally, I do not fly tip unless the fly has given me especially good service. You vomited on my food politely and unobtrusively and then you didn't spend 20 minutes flying into a light bulb, you just flew out the window. Have an extra 12%. Right, so the final score. 71 to Zoe and I here, 62 to Simon and Cindy. We're off for the next six weeks. I want one prediction for what will happen before our next series starts. Towards the end of April.

Zoe Lyons (28:27)

AI Armageddon.

Simon Evans (28:30)

And it will still be raining.

Andy Zaltzman (28:34)

Oh, here. Prediction.

Ahir Shah (28:36)

Probably nothing much. I think we're due a break. Yeah, there's been a lot on.

Cindy Yu (28:43)

There's been a lot on. I predict that Trump will. He enjoyed his performance of the State of the Union speech so much that he's going to put it on again and it'll run for the full six weeks.

Andy Zaltzman (28:56)

Well, we'll have full updates on whether or not any of those come true. Thank you very much for listening until April. Goodbye. Taking part in the news quiz were Zoe Lyons, Simon Evans, Cindy Yu and Ahir Shah. In the chair was me, Andy Zaltzman and additional material was written by Mike Shepard and Provania Pull. The producer was Georgia Keating and It was a BBC Studios production for Radio 4.

Amanda Iannucci (29:29)

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Andy Zaltzman (29:47)

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Ahir Shah (29:49)

It's like something out of the thick

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Simon Evans (29:56)

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