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This is a Global Player Original podcast. Well, Ian, this feels like a day for a bunga-bonga party. Are you in?

I think every day is a day for a bunga-bunga party, don't you?

So let's start off with the big political news of the week, the death of Silvio Berlusconi.

It's succession.

That surprised everyone, hasn't it?

Yeah.

It's succession in Italian, isn't it, Berlusconi?

Because you know he's got five children and he hasn't decided, or it isn't clear, who's going to inherit his rather enormous media and other business empire.

Well, presumably he's written a will.

Well, it doesn't seem to be clear from what I was reading.

And of course his funeral was very quick.

So you had this fabulous Italian funeral with his children, who all seem to look, particularly the women, seem to look quite glamorous in black.

It's a bit like that Italian funeral in that James Bond film where he then copes off with the widow.

Do you know the one I'm talking about?

No.

All right. Okay. Well, anyway, a certain amount of style and controversy still to come from a very controversial political figure.

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