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Oct 2023
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Introducing The Weekend Intelligence

The Economist
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The Weekend Intelligence is a new podcast from the award-winning team at The Economist. It’s a space for our reporters and writers to take a break from the news cycle, to tell the stories that mean the most to them, and to broaden all of our horizons.


Hosts Ore Ogunbiyi and Jason Palmer introduce one story to take you somewhere new every Saturday.


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