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Nov 2020
41m 51s

Does Germany Do It Better?

THE TIMES
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It's Tuesday which means Finkelvitch time, as Times columnists Daniel Finkelstein and David Aaronovitch join Matt Chorley to discuss the democratic truth and dramatic lies. Then, Matt is joined by Peter Littger (German author and journalist), Marcel Fratzcher, (Head of the German Institute for Economic Research) and Rachel Stewart (presenter of Meet the Germans) to find out whether Germany just does it better than Britain.


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