Unanswered 23: Euro Vision Throng Context

Recorded in a month all about Europe, Steev and Nick freewheel into a conversation about the UK’s political climate, and in particular the debate around immigration.

Captured before the European Parliament elections and released after the dust had settled, this episode is as much a snapshot of a specific moment as it is a record of our own political perspective and prejudices.

Find out what the deal is with Question Time, whether political parties have their own official dance, if suburban sprawls are our utopia, and which one of us would love to live near a cheese shop. Continue reading →

Recorded in a month all about Europe, Steev and Nick freewheel into a conversation about the UK’s political climate, and in particular the debate around immigration.

Captured before the European Parliament elections and released after the dust had settled, this episode is as much a snapshot of a specific moment as it is a record of our own political perspectives and prejudices.

Find out what the deal is with Question Time, whether political parties have their own official dance, if suburban sprawls are our utopia, and which one of us would love to live near a cheese shop.

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Eurovision Song Contest
According to Wikipedia: Eurovision Song Contest
According to Wikipedia: United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest
YouTube: Eurovision Song Contest 2014, full voting results ↓

According to Wikipedia: Eastenders
According to Wikipedia: Coronation Street
According to Wikipedia: TV Quick magazine
According to Wikipedia: Scott Mills
According to Wikipedia: Terry Wogan
According to Wikipedia: Graham Norton
According to Wikipedia: UK Independence Party
According to Wikipedia: Alan Sked
According to Wikipedia: Nigel Farage
According to Wikipedia: European Union
According to Wikipedia: Maastrict Treaty
According to Wikipedia: Sir John Major
According to Wikipedia: John Smith (Labour Party leader)
According to Wikipedia: Tony Blair
According to Wikipedia: English Defence League
According to Wikipedia: National Front (UK)
According to Wikipedia: British National Party
“Vandals attack Jewish Graves” by Nick Walker, The Independent; Wednesday 4th August 1993
According to Wikipedia: Westboro Baptist Church
According to Wikipedia: Question Time (TV series)
YouTube: BBC Question Time, 8th May 2014 ↓

According to Wikipedia: Hedge End
Unanswered Show 9: Cities
According to Wikipedia: SimCity
According to Wikipedia: Retail parks [to which we refer as “out-of-town shopping”]
YouTube: Monty Python Cheese Shop sketch ↓

YouTube: Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe S02E01—media coverage of pending Bulgarian and Romanian immigration (featuring Victor, the one-man horde) ↓

Is Nigel Farage on Question Time?—IsNigelFarageOnQuestionTime.com
According to Wikipedia: Robert Kilroy-Silk
According to Wikipedia: Nicky Campbell
According to Wikipedia: Jeremy Kyle
According to Wikipedia: Straw man
“Nick Clegg challenges Nigel Farage to EU debate” by BBC News, Thursday 20th February 2014
According to Wikipedia: Nick Griffin

Further material

“Romanian and Bulgarian migration: Dip in workers coming to the UK” by Mark Easton, BBC News; Wednesday 14th May 2014
“Ukip founder Alan Sked: ’The party has becomes a Frankenstein’s monster’” by Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian; Monday 26th May 2014
“BBC receives almost 1,200 complaints over Ukip election coverage” by John Reynolds and Mark Sweney, The Guardian; Friday 30th May 2014
“Nigel Farage & BBC’s UKIP election coverage: Nick Robinson on the ‘marmite’ politician” by Samira Ahmed, samiraahmed.co.uk; Friday 30th May 2014

Details

Recorded: 14 May 2014
Running time: 1:01’47
Bad language: Yes [3x f*ck; 1x sh*t]
Feature image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caerulea3_crop.jpg


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