Derailed: The Story of HS2: 6. The Only Friend that Mattered

Understand

• Episode: Derailed: The Story of HS2: 6. The Only Friend that Mattered
• Website: Understand
• Feed URL: https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/m001dwr7.rss
• Duration: 00:14:19
• Published: 2025-07-21 07:15

Revelations about waste and delay have left HS2 in poor shape - and ripe, in the view of its political opponents, for cancellation. But, at the opportune moment, a new Prime Minister arrives. Boris Johnson saw HS2 as a cornerstone of his “levelling up” agenda, and gave it the green light to proceed even as the country wrestled with the emergency of a global pandemic. Presenter: Kate Lamble Producer: Robert Nicholson Executive Producer: Will Yates Sound Design and Mix: Arlie Adlington A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4