12 November 2021
Episode 2630
30 minutes
Myanmar sentences a US journalist to 11 years in jail. Plus: the last day of climate talks at Cop26; the opening of Hong Kong’s M+ museum; and Andrew’s Mueller’s assessment of what we learned this week.
12 November 2021
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