363 Octopus news 🐙
The Last Post
Chris Skinner
4.8 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
As the octopus people of New New Zealand emerge from the seas, celebrity celebrity Andrew Zaltzman ponders the future relationship between humans and cephalopods. What happens with their voting rights when in international waters, or in the contested fishing seas surrounding the UK? Are they communists? And is the whole octopus people story just a hoax anyway?
If you enjoyed Andrew today, then press play any episode of 2020 at random and there's a 1 in 6 chance you'll hit on another of his appearances.
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| 1:22.3 | Hello, posters, and welcome to The Last Post, |
| 1:25.3 | the final word in this, the most final of worlds. |
| 1:28.2 | Today's episode, episode 363, marking Monday the 28th of December of the year 2020. |
| 1:36.2 | On this day in 1860, Harriet Tubman arrived in New York on her last mission to free slaves, |
| 1:42.7 | having evaded capture for eight years on the |
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