Hi everyone and welcome to a special edition of our Brexit and Beyond podcast.

This week we're bringing you the audio of an in-conversation event we held on the 19th of April

with Fiona Hill of the Brookings

Institution. As you'll hear the conversation ranges far and wide, from Ukraine to the state of

Russia, to the issue of leveling up in the United Kingdom. I hope you find it every bit as interesting

as I did at the time. And to make sure you don't miss future events such as this, do sign up for our newsletter,

visit our website or follow us on Twitter. Enjoy. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to what is

the first in UK and the Changing Europe series of events called Unlocked, which are going to be

in-depth conversations with notable people. I'm delighted that we can kickstart with a very notable person.

I'll come back to Fiona in a moment.

Just a few housekeeping things.

Firstly, profound and grateful thanks to nationwide, and particularly to Paul Reisborough up there,

who've agreed to let us have this wonderful room that has only heightened my sense of private

sector envy, which anyone who works in a university suffers from anyway.

Wow. Better not get used to this. But thank you so much, Paul, and all your team for this.

Secondly, for those who don't know UK and a changing Europe, we're a network of academics who

are trying to make post-Brexit Britain intelligible to anyone.

If you haven't already, then if there's one thing you can do to thank us for Nationwide's

free breakfast, it's to go to our website.

Have a look, and if you want to share it, that will be great.

But do have a look at our stuff. And if you want to be in touch about doing events with us in the future, that will be great.

And the third housekeeping thing is you will see up there a QR code for Slido.

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