{"id":20401,"date":"2016-12-14T16:40:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T16:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=20401"},"modified":"2016-12-14T16:40:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T16:40:53","slug":"the-better-side-aodhan-o-riordain-hilary-benn-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=20401","title":{"rendered":"The Better Side: Aodh\u00e1n \u00d3 Riord\u00e1in &#038; Hilary Benn MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hilary Benn MP:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The British Labour Party MP Hilary Benn joins Aodh\u00e1n for a discussion on his background, his politics and his hope for the future.<\/p>\n<p>Hilary speaks about growing up in a political household, the influence of his American mother on his life, the impact on Brexit and the challenges for the centre-left in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The influence\u00a0of his father and left-wing icon Tony Benn, the murder of Jo Cox MP and the future for the British Labour Party also feature strongly in the conversation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4003\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/InterviewwithHilaryBenn.MP3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('4003','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/InterviewwithHilaryBenn.MP3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/InterviewwithHilaryBenn.MP3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=20401-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/InterviewwithHilaryBenn.MP3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"InterviewwithHilaryBenn.MP3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 28:26 &#8212; 65.1MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hilary Benn MP: The British Labour Party MP Hilary Benn joins Aodh\u00e1n for a discussion on his background, his politics and his hope for the future. Hilary speaks about growing up in a political household, the influence of his American mother on his life, the impact on Brexit and the challenges for the centre-left in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4004\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/InterviewwithHilaryBenn.MP3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('4004','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/InterviewwithHilaryBenn.MP3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/InterviewwithHilaryBenn.MP3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=20401-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/InterviewwithHilaryBenn.MP3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"InterviewwithHilaryBenn.MP3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 28:26 &#8212; 65.1MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,5749],"tags":[277,5896,5895,2148,5897,5739],"class_list":["post-20401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-currentaffairs","category-general","category-the-better-side","tag-aodhan-o-riordain","tag-british-labour-party","tag-hilary-benn","tag-near-fm","tag-the","tag-the-better-side"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20402,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20401\/revisions\/20402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}