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Sep 2016
4m 23s

TALKING POLITICS

DAVID RUNCIMAN AND CATHERINE CARR
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Corbyn! Trump! Brexit! Politics has never been more unpredictable, more alarming or more interesting. From next week (22ND September 2016), a brand new podcast called TALKING POLITICS will be launched to try to make sense of it all. Each week, David Runciman will talk to the most interesting people around: novelists, comedians, historians, philosophers - and ... Show More
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