4.2 • 177 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this week's episode of Calling Peston. |
0:09.8 | Usually we start each episode with a witty and clever opening about something that's happened this week. |
0:14.4 | But I couldn't think of anything. |
0:15.9 | But fortunately for me, this magical moment on ITVs, The Chase, happened. |
0:20.1 | The podcast Calling Peston features which political editor? |
0:25.5 | Harry. |
0:26.1 | Robert Peston. |
0:27.6 | That political editor is obviously here. |
0:30.2 | Do you think that you would have got that question right, Robert? |
0:32.9 | Probably not. |
0:34.3 | It was a really funny moment, though, wasn't it? And, you know, obviously, the fact that the podcast has now made it into Quizland is probably the highest accolade we've all had recently. So, yeah, it was a wonderful moment. |
0:52.0 | Absolutely. We'll also be joined this episode by the author and poet Michael Rosen, |
0:56.0 | who among other things will be talking about his experience of being in hospital with COVID. |
1:00.2 | So stick around for that. |
1:01.5 | Or because it's a podcast, you can just scroll to that bit if you want. |
1:04.6 | Before we get into the news, as you heard, we were mentioned on The Chase, which was bizarre. |
1:11.0 | And as a team, we do occasionally pop up on different parts of the telly. |
1:15.2 | Something is really weird. |
1:16.0 | I actually ended up on Gogglebox last week or the week before. |
1:18.9 | So I filmed a news report where there was a shot of me calling the Prime Minister. |
1:24.5 | That was when the news emerged that the Prime Minister's mobile number |
1:28.1 | had been on a press release online for a number of years. And I filmed myself on my phone calling him |
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