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Dec 2022
34m 32s

Striking nurses. Squabbling royals.

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Nurses across England, Wales and Northern Ireland are striking for the first time in over a century. Lewis has been down to the picket line at St. Thomas' Hospital - just opposite the Houses of Parliament - to ask what the political and economic consequences of this strike could be.

And the last three parts of Harry and Meghan's Netflix doc take us inside a world of death threats, public birth, online harm and press management as we're taken behind the scenes of the row that spilt the two princes. What has this episode, in breaking the code of silence, done to the Monarchy, and Meghan.

Social Media: Georgia Foxwell

Video: Will Gibson-Smith


Production: Gabriel Radus


Deputy Editor: Tom Hughes


Executive Producer: Dino Sofos


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