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Hello and welcome to coffeehouse shots,

the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm joined by Katie Paul's and James Heel.

Well, there's been a small diplomatic row this morning over the Prime Minister

Misisci Sunak and the Greek Prime Minister Kiriakos Mitzotakis.

Rishi Sunak cancelled their meeting at the last minute over an ongoing dispute to do with the Elgin

Marbles. James a lot of people in the office see you as a bit of a history buff.

So could you just briefly outline to the listeners who don't know?

How is this dispute unraveled?

Well, Natasha, in the early 19th century these marbles were acquired by Lord Elgin, who brought them over here,

and they remained the British Museum ever since, but it's been quite a thorny issue around restitution,

for instance, successive Greek governments have wanted them back.

You know there's also debates around you know how the British Museum has kept them over the

decades as well and I think really what's given these talks around this a lot of life

in the past couple of years or so is that George

Osborne's appointment as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the British Museum

and some talk around potentially getting around the 1963 legislation on the British Museum

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