18 April 2022
Episode 2195
40 minutes
Lynne O’Donnell, columnist for ‘Foreign Policy’ magazine, and Simon Brooke, freelance journalist, are in the studio with Andrew Mueller to discuss the day’s big stories. Plus: a report from Monocle’s Latin America correspondent, Lucinda Elliott, on Montevideo’s rural festival and a supply crunch for farmers in the region.
18 April 2022
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