25 May 2023
Episode 3029
33 minutes
Russia’s arrest of two Ukrainians accused of planning to attack a nuclear power plant, military drills on the North Korean border and business news with Bloomberg’s Yuan Potts. Plus: remembering Tina Turner, the “Queen of Rock’n’Roll”, with Monocle’s Tyler Brûlé and Fernando Augusto Pacheco.
25 May 2023
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