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Politics Unpacked

Greatest political movies ever

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley asks Kevin Maher, The Times chief film critic, to separate the ballot box blockbusters from the low-turnout turkeys. PLUS: Esther Webber on how parliament dealt with the 1918 Spanish Flu.

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0:00.0

May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

0:08.0

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again.

0:16.5

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Hello, a one to the Red Box politics podcast in the Times, I'm Matt Chorley.

0:31.0

What's the greatest political movie ever? It was a question prompted by a message from

0:36.2

Red Box podcast listener Tom Barnaby, who suggested we did an episode on political films.

0:41.4

So I turned to readers of the Red Box Morning email and Twitter to

0:45.8

ask people to nominate their favorite political films. In only a few hours we

0:50.3

had more than 700 suggestions covering 250 different films.

0:56.0

Later in the episode we'll speak to Kevin Mayer, the Times Chief Film Critic,

1:00.0

and he'll tell us the ones which really are worth watching and the ones that are best avoided.

1:05.6

But as we had so many entries and frankly we've not got anything else worth doing,

1:10.5

we're going to run a World Cup of political films on Twitter.

1:13.8

If you're listening to this episode on Friday, March the 27th,

1:17.4

from 10 a.m. we will begin the group stages of the top 32 films that you all recommended and you can follow its

1:26.5

progress throughout the day just go to Times Red Box on Twitter so that's

1:31.4

Twitter dot com forward slash Times Red Box on Twitter, so that's Twitter.com,

1:32.6

forward slash Times Red Box.

1:34.8

And you can follow the polls and the contest

1:36.8

as it unfolds to see which film comes out on top.

1:40.7

But first, because it's Friday,

1:42.0

it's time to check in with Red Box reporter Esther Weber

1:45.3

who I haven't seen now for about two weeks. How are you doing Esther?

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