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Mar 2024
10m 43s

The week that was with Irene Pink and Pi...

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Irene and Pinky wrap up the lighter moments of the week, including the Cambridge academic who escaped a medieval tower using a cotton bud. And a woman who gave birth at a P!nk concert in Sydney - and it's not the first time it's happened.  
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