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Oct 2021
56m 14s

I Spy

THE TIMES
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Matt Chorley looks at the link between GCHQ and Cheltenham and speaks to GCHQ's historian David Abrutat and former GCHQ director David Omand. Also Ed Balls pops in to chat about food, new labour and strictly.


PLUS the Times' Carol Lewis and Jack Malvern discuss Covid in the city and eavesdropping.


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