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Marina Hyde on British politics, Brexit and her new book

Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy

CHAPTER

Introduction

Marina Hyde is a chronicler of our time. She's multi-award winning, very, very funny. Her columns have been turned into a book called What Just Happened. Marina says she doesn't really do any broadcast things but has made an exception for her book.

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Hello and welcome to Ways to Change the World. I'm Christian Guru Murthy and this is the podcast in which we talk to extraordinary people about the big ideas in their lives and the events that have helped shape them. My guest this week is a chronicler of our time. She's multi-award winning, very, very funny. Every week at Channel 4 News, somebody or other says, I wish we could get Marina Hyde on. But she doesn't really do a lot of TV and radio and I'm delighted to say that she sort of put her columns into a book called What Just Happened and that's why we've got you on. It is indeed. Thank you so much for having me. I'm most honoured. Well, I'm very surprised that you've actually sort of come to do an interview about this talk because you don't
Speaker 1
normally. I'm very unfashionable in that I just think I'm a writer and that is it and so I don't really do any broadcast things but I'm making a very honoured exception for my book and because I think that's probably fair to the publishers. So it's an exception but it's a delightful one.
Speaker 2
Now I read your columns every week obviously and for a day Twitter will be full of did you see what Marina Hyde said? Did you see Marina Hyde's line about X? But putting them all together over sort of five years of politics. It's quite traumatic. When I was
Speaker 1
putting it all together I was thinking they sort of appear once or twice a week and just the sort of relentless onslaught of how but the story just gets worse. I had to think of some way to start it so I decided to put a pin in just a week or so before the referendum just after the murder of Joe Cox. I really feel like that's the moment where we kind of passed almost perhaps irrevocably. Certainly we're not out of it yet into that sort of dark time life. And I remember when I was writing a lot after Brexit somebody said to me, oh gosh you know this is such fun but what will you do in a year when it's all done? God I mean even that I thought I don't think it will be all done in a year but even I could not have predicted that six years in we would be trying to unpick what do we have and that things would have become more and more crazy and chaotic by the year.

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