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Dec 2024
51m 21s

Syria: Assad falls

Bbc Radio 4
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Historic scenes in Syria as the Assad regime collapses. Chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet and former national security adviser Lord Ricketts on what happens now. Also the importance of Notre Dame as it returns, and Wham’s Last Christmas forty years on.

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