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Aug 2022
34m 34s

Going Global

BBC News
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The biggest international news stories with the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen.

Our International Editor discusses the life and death of last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, floods in Pakistan and deadly violence in Iraq.

And, our sister pod, Americast, is back! The team are in the studio to give Adam the lowdown.

Today’s Newscast was made by Tim Walklate with Miranda Slade, Danny Wittenberg and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.

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