"A Tale Of Two Cities"
The Two Matts
The New World
4.2 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
London is a political mess and Paris is on fire … the Two Matts explore this tale of two cities. Have the Tories abandoned the capital… and why do French police shot dead so many more than cops in any other European country? Plus how a former hot dog salesman marched on Moscow.
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| 0:56.5 | journalism. Hello, I'm Matt Kelly. And I'm Matt Dancona. And this is the two mats for the week |
| 1:02.1 | ending Friday, June the 30th. It is indeed. A place it says here to make sense of the past week |
| 1:07.9 | in politics in the company of two hacks that have seen it all. |
| 1:11.6 | There'll be along in a minute. |
| 1:12.2 | Not, yeah. |
| 1:14.5 | Anyway. |
| 1:14.9 | Meanwhile. |
| 1:17.2 | You'll have to do with us. |
| 1:19.2 | We'll need a title for this episode. |
| 1:20.1 | What should we call it? |
| 1:21.9 | I think it should be a tale of two cities. |
| 1:23.6 | Do you know why you think that? |
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