NS#268: Local Elections Debrief
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🗓️ 10 May 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Helen is joined by Sienna Rodgers, editor of LabourList, to discuss the local election results — was it a good night or a bad night for Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party? Then the American playwright Rajiv Joseph joins to tell us about his new play, Describe the Night, which covers almost a hundred years of Russian political history.
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| 1:06.1 | Listen to eight years hard labour wherever you get your podcasts. Hello I'm Helen and I'm also Helen because there is no Stephen this week however we have got a couple of exciting guests for you on this week's new |
| 1:08.8 | statesman podcast. Siena Rogers of Labor List joins me to talk about the |
| 1:12.1 | local elections and playwright |
| 1:13.6 | Rajiv Joseph talks about his new play set over a century of Russian history. |
| 1:17.0 | Hello I'm Helen and welcome to the New States from the podcast. This week Stephen is taking a break. |
| 1:27.0 | Yes, we've let him on holiday in his special holiday suit, so it's just me, but for our first segment, I'm lucky enough to be joined by the editor of Labor List, |
| 1:34.0 | Siena Rogers. Hello? Hello. So before we start, let's just set up and tell me who you are and tell our listeners who you are and what you do. |
| 1:41.5 | So I'm Siena Rogers. I've taken over as editor of Labor List around three months ago, I think it is now, so I no longer have the excuse of being incredibly new. |
| 1:50.0 | And Labor List is by Labour for Labour, right? |
| 1:53.3 | Right, exactly. I mean, it's the inside track on the Labour Party, and it's mainly directed at |
| 1:58.3 | certainly Labour supporters and members largely. |
| 2:01.2 | Tell us about your, the way that you've covered the local election results because as soon as those |
| 2:05.9 | results start to come in last Friday I think the ongoing kind of conversation moved into like |
| 2:09.9 | are these a good night for labor or not? Now some of that I think was affected by the |
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