Introducing The Explanation

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2023

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

On a mission to make sense of the world. A new podcast, with hosts John Simpson and Claire Graham. Episodes released weekly from 20 May 2023.

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0:00.0	What exactly is Russia's infamous Wagner Group?
0:04.4	What is NATO and what does it do?
0:07.5	Is Turkey on the way to full dictatorship?
0:11.5	Why is Gang Warfare widespread in Haiti?
0:15.9	I'm John Simpson, the BBC News World Affairs Editor.
0:19.8	And I'm Claire Graham, a senior BBC journalist,
0:22.8	based in Northern Ireland.
0:24.8	And we're here to explain the explanation.
0:28.8	The new podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:31.7	We're on a mission to try and make sense of the world.
0:35.2	To try to understand it better.
0:37.4	We ask the big questions and try to get the answers.
0:41.2	What's the explanation for what's going on?
0:44.1	We'll ditch the spin and provide an honest,
0:46.8	unvarnished review of the global news stories.
0:50.4	I'll be figuring out what is a war crime and why is there such economic
0:55.5	catastrophe in Lebanon.
0:57.6	And we'll be kicking off the new podcast with the explanation,
1:02.4	unspun world.
1:03.9	I'll be asking some of the key questions about our world
1:08.0	and the direction it's heading in.
1:10.1	The explanation from the BBC World Service begins on the 20th of May.
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