Helen Lewis

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1,139 appearances 8 recordings 6 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 24 Jun

Helen Lewis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 6 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 5.

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Even people that love Obama have not been able to argue with the affordability crisis.
Not only did he time it in time for Private Eye Press Day, he actually timed it in the middle of the Private Eye editorial meeting.
So there was a pause as we all went and watched it on our telly and then sort of reunited tearfully to say, right, what the hell are we going to do now?
But it was an incredible thing because I'm still scarred by the day in 2017 that we went to press on a Monday and Theresa May chose nine o'clock the next morning, the Tuesday, before we were even out on the newsstands to call a general election.
So for one thing, I will pay tribute to Sakhir for that one.
But that was the bit he was good at.
That's the strange thing about it.
He was a very good leader of the opposition and he did sort out the party, which was in a terrible state.
And then he sort of got into power and didn't seem to know what he wanted to do with it.
Yeah.
Well, I had two feelings about it.
One was just shut up, just pull his plug out.
For God's sake, enough, we get it.
I know it's the 10th anniversary and everything.
But the other one was, God, it's a banger, isn't it?
The Ode to Joy.
Really good as anthems go.
Right.
It's up there with Zadok the Priest, definitely.
I think Coronations was Zadok the Priest, but maybe that's just the circles I'm moving.
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