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Jan 2023
32m 4s

The Influence of Andrew Tate

BBC News
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Who is the self-proclaimed misogynist and why are people worried about his influence over young boys’ behaviour?

Adam talks to the BBC’s Marianna Spring and Michael Conroy, founder of Men at Work, about the controversial British-American influencer who is in custody in Romania.

And Josh Baker from the new podcast, The Shamima Begum Story, tells us about his interviews with Shamima Begum.

Today’s episode was presented by Adam Fleming and made by Tim Walklate with Madeleine Drury, Chris Flynn, Verity Wilde and Cecelia Armstrong. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.

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