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Where Politics Meets History

368. Ich bin ein Berliner

Where Politics Meets History

Global

News, History, Politics

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Iain Dale and Jacqui Smith discuss the sacking of Nadhim Zahawi, the anniversary of Brexit, the state of the economy, interest rates, the return to the political fray of Liz Truss and Boris Johnson, prepay meters and what to get up to in Berlin of a night. For details of For the Many Live! events go to http://www.forthemany.live

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0:00.0

This is a Global Player Original podcast.

0:15.7

Berlin calling, this is the results of the German jury.

0:23.6

I suspect that Germany, that Berlin is a little bit cleaner than Beirut was last week.

0:30.6

This is honestly the cleanest big city I've ever been to, apart possibly from Baku.

0:35.6

I thought Berlin was supposed to be a little bit sort of decadent and dirty.

0:41.9

No, not at all. Are you not seeing that side or what?

0:44.0

I haven't seen any dirty side yet, but my work here is done and I've got the whole weekend to be dirty.

0:51.4

But it's, you'd be getting your stockings on and going clubbing?

0:55.1

I certainly will not.

0:56.5

I might do me Lily Marlene around a lamp post or something, but no, I haven't quite decided what to do over the weekend.

1:03.8

I've got lots of recommendations of museums to go to, but I'm not a big museum goer.

1:08.7

But I do intends to do a bit of culture stuff. I want to go to Vanzai, where they

1:13.6

decided on the final solution. That's been recommended somewhere to go to. So you can have a barrel of

1:21.3

laughs all weekend. Yeah. And there's a couple of concentration camps around here as well,

1:25.7

Zaxenhausen and Rabinsbrook. But I've been to three concentration camps, here as well as Akson Housen and Ravensbrook but I've

1:28.0

been to three concentration camps and I think that's probably sufficient so I think

1:34.9

the I might go to the Stasi Museum and the Resistance Museum but we'll see I think I

1:41.2

would have enjoyed the Stasi Museum what do do you think? Yeah, you would. Wown your

1:44.8

jackboots. You're making me feel very trivial because last week after we'd recorded the podcast

1:53.5

on the Saturday night, I'm just turning myself down a bit because I was about to turn you down as well.

1:58.7

Yeah. I'm just turning myself.

2:03.0

I went out to a club on Saturday night,

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