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Hello, welcome to the Red Box podcast on The Times, I'm Matt Chorley, bringing you the best of my

Times radio show, which you can listen to Monday to Thursday, 10 to 1.

On today's show, we banned coronavirus all mention of the C word not because it's

not important but you know there's only so much we can take and we just want to

have a have a bit more fun and lightness. So the main thing we did on the show

was we we ran a world cup of the best fictional politicians. It started the

weekend thousands of people sent me nominations on Twitter we did the

quarterfinals the semifinals and then there was an ultimate result which you can

find out who won at the end of the podcast coming up a really interesting chat I had with James Graham the

playwright Amber Rudd the former Home Secretary and the actor Justin Edwards who played

Ben Swain, the blinky Ben Swain in the thick of it as they talk about what it's like

Try to create drama out of a political crisis and what it's like seeing your job

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