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Mar 2018
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Episode 25. STAIRWAY TO (TAX) HAVEN: cle...

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Hello! What links some of the highest cost house prices, criminals and islands thousands of miles away? Dirty money and tax havens. We speak to Luke Harding, Tom Burgis and Naomi Hirst about the damage being done and how the UK can stop being a home for laundered money.

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Comedian Pippa Evans talks to a witch on a bus, shares sandwiches and takes a peek at what you're listening to.

 

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