224: Espionage and Russia news 🕵️🇷🇺
The Last Post
Chris Skinner
4.8 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Huge news from Tom Ballard as he reveals to host Alice Fraser that Russia has not only been perverting democracy across the world but has been meddling in other parts of our digital world.
To hear Tom on the 36th best podcast episode of 2020 (Indie Wire), head to episode 124 where he and Alice reminisced about his glorious 10 years of appearances on The Last Post.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's producer Chris from the Bugle here. Did you know that I have a new series of my podcast, |
| 0:04.9 | Richie Firth Travel Hacker, out now. It's the show where Richie Firth and I talk about how to make |
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| 0:18.1 | Overground and a whole bunch of other random stuff that possibly involves wheels or tracks or engines of some variety. |
| 0:25.6 | God, what a hot sell this is. I mean, you must be so excited. Listen now. |
| 0:34.6 | When passions run high And secrets run deep |
| 0:37.9 | When plots twist and turn and turn and twist |
| 0:41.3 | When you love and loathe characters in equal measure |
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| 0:46.4 | Yeah, it's the shifty eyes |
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| 1:05.5 | The Bugle presents |
| 1:14.9 | The Last Post with Alice Fraser |
| 1:20.8 | Hello posters and Hello, posters, and welcome to The Last Post, the final word in this, the most final of worlds. |
| 1:35.8 | Today's episode marks the 11th of August of the year 2020. |
| 1:40.0 | Happy Birthday to Day to English author Enid Blyton, born in 1897, and author of such famous |
| 1:45.6 | text franchises as The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, the Nefarious Nine, the Teppard Three, |
| 1:51.0 | and the Forgettable Fifteen. |
| 1:53.1 | On this date, in 1942, actress Hedy Lamar and composer George Anthale received a patent |
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