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Jan 2023
31m 13s

Prince Harry: Royality Check

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Duke of Sussex accuses his brother William of physically attacking him. Royal Correspondent Jonny Dymond reveals details of a stream of sensational claims and accusations from Prince Harry's new memoir, Spare.

And Lord Mandelson, Labour’s election campaign director under Tony Blair, joins Adam and Chris to give his assessment of Sir Keir Starmer’s speech today, and of the state of the party as a whole.

Today’s episode was presented by Adam Fleming and made by Tim Walklate with Chris Flynn, Josh Jenkins and Adam Chowdhury. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The senior news editor was Sam Bonham.

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