Hi podcast listeners tonight we have a really interesting conversation with the US ambassador to

Colombo in Sri Lanka and her take on the US victims and how they're trying to help American families cope

with this terrible this terrible disaster.

Then I speak to the outgoing French ambassador to Washington, Gerar Aro.

He is one of the unique figures on the diplomatic stage in that he can often be called

undiplomatic he's so blunt he's so honest he's charming and he's funny and he has

the inside story of what it's like to work with the Trump administration and the Obama

administration before that his career spanned 10 years in the United States and

why he told his president Macron never to respond to Donald Trump's tweets. And Harry talks to the playwright and the

impresario behind a new play about Socrates, the 400 BC Greek philosopher, who's talking about all the issues that are relevant still today

right wrong good bad and all the things that we grapple with on a daily basis so enjoy

this show. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. In Sri Lanka the

Prime Minister warns there are still people on the run with explosives after the bomb

attacks on Easter Sunday which have now claimed at least 321 lives and injured

hundreds more. The country is holding a day of mourning and it remains under a state of

emergency. A mass funeral took place at San Sebastian's church in the

Gombo, that's one of three places of worship that were targeted.

And a source tells us that nine people

have appeared in court suspected of providing

some of the materials used to make the explosives.

The country's defense minister says the attacks may have been in retaliation

for the mosque massacre in New Zealand last month.

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