4 December 2019
Episode 2042
30 minutes
Robert Fox and Carole Walker discuss whether a video of world leaders gossiping at the Nato summit hints at deeper faultlines. Plus: George Soros and Charles Koch’s new think-tank and have the arts become too gentle?
4 December 2019
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