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Dicky birds: the next pandemic?

Economist Podcasts

The Economist

News & Politics, News

4.35K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The scars of the covid pandemic are still raw, but now a virus spreading among farm animals could leap to humans. Could bird flu become the next pandemic? White women are sometimes absolved of blame in the crime of slavery in America (9:50). Research suggests they may have been culpable too. And meet the creator of Dateline, the Economist’s history quiz (17:25).


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1:00.7

The Economist.

1:08.0

Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist.

1:11.6

I'm your host, Rosie Bloor.

1:13.6

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world.

1:22.6

White women are often assumed to have been innocent partners in the crime of American slavery. But new research suggests

1:28.7

that many of them were just as culpable, seeing the slave market as a ticket to their own

1:33.6

economic freedom. And are you into quizzes? If you're listening to this, I know you must be

1:41.4

into the economist. Well, now we have a quiz of our own, based on us.

1:46.5

And it turns out to be really quite fun.

1:59.6

First up, though.

2:14.3

Three years ago, Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered an inquiry into Britain's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

2:21.0

The first, damning conclusions were published yesterday. Former judge Heather Hallett chaired the investigation and said the government had let the British people down. In 2019,

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