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Hello and welcome to this best of today podcast. I'm Martha Carney, and our guest editor this morning was Bjorn Olveyas, who you all know from Abba.

And he joins me now to tell us a little bit more about what we're going to hear in this podcast.

Why did you decide that you would agree to be our guest editor?

And we're delighted you did. It was an irresistible proposition because I got to work with the best journalists in the world.

And I got to speak to anyone, almost anyone I wish to speak to, about items,

about topics that really interest me and are very important at this moment in time. So yes, I said yes immediately.

And we had such a variety.

I think people saw many different sides to your interests,

the kind of things that you wanted to bring to the program.

And what would you like people to take away from what they're hearing?

But worry about democracy being on the decline, at least before the Ukrainian war,

the relation between the US and Europe, the empowerment of women and girls in the world being the most important thing that could happen if that could happen.

And other little lighter stuff like Eurovision and why has the gay community embraced Abba and stuff like that?

Well, you worked extremely hard for us and we're very grateful to you and let's hear some of the items that you've chosen.

Now Abba have had so many hits over the decades, you'd struggle to name them all.

But one song, Chiquitita, hasn't earned Abba a penny.

Instead, the money's been spent fighting poverty in Latin America.

Written in 1979 for UNICEF's Year of the Child,

Chiquotita has raised millions to fund health and welfare programs

for Indigenous women and girls.

Our Central America correspondent Will Grant

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