25 November 2021
Episode 2089
40 minutes
Natalia Sobrevilla Perea and Vincent McAviney on the tragedy in the English Channel and the UK & France’s responses. Plus: Chile’s first round of its presidential election; Australia’s contentious religious anti-discrimination bill; and Andrew Mueller’s ‘On This Day’ takes us to 1984 as Band Aid records “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”
25 November 2021
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