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Hello, throughout the summer we've been bringing you interesting conversations with interesting people here on

newscast on a Sunday.

We've gone to the theatre, we've gone to the House of Lords, we've gone into space.

Now we're going to go across the whole world in a geopolitical sense because my guest is Dr. Fiona Hill,

former White House advisor, former student at St Andrews University, now

Chancellor of Durham University and a really interesting thinker on foreign policy who came to the

world's attention when she was

summoned as a witness in the impeachment trial of then President Donald

Trump. Here is the conversation I had with her in the Newscast studio.

Newscast.

Newscast from the BBC.

Fiona, hello.

Hi there, how are you? I'm very well thank you and welcome back to newscast.

Thank you. But in previous episodes where we've had about 15 minutes, we've now got about 40 minutes,

so good job the world is quite chaotic at the moment there's plenty of

trouble spots that we can that we can look at but before we we go in a kind of

tour around the world I just wanted to do a bit of a bit of your you kind of

personal history and so what was happening in

county Durham in the 80s when you were a teenager and you decided that Russian was the thing that

you wanted to get into? Well look that was the thing that you wanted to get into.

Well look that was the period that actually it's the subject of a Netflix series at the moment

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