Introducing The Weekend Intelligence
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 25 October 2023
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
The Weekend Intelligence is a new podcast from the award-winning team at The Economist. It’s a space for our reporters and writers to take a break from the news cycle, to tell the stories that mean the most to them, and to broaden all of our horizons.
Hosts Ore Ogunbiyi and Jason Palmer introduce one story to take you somewhere new every Saturday.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you ready for the weekend? |
| 0:03.6 | Each Saturday, we're bringing you a new podcast exclusively for |
| 0:07.9 | economist subscribers. |
| 0:09.2 | It's called The Weekend Intelligence, and it's going to be our home for story-telling. |
| 0:14.0 | Are you responsible for the sins of your forefathers? |
| 0:17.0 | Can you inherit guilt? |
| 0:19.2 | At what point do you consign this history to the past? |
| 0:22.3 | And just move on. |
| 0:24.2 | What's the point of traveling through space? |
| 0:27.1 | Just to get to a place that is totally inhospitable to us. |
| 0:31.0 | It's a chance to meet economist correspondence from around the globe |
| 0:34.5 | and hear the stories that they're passionate about. |
| 0:37.0 | I need to take a step back here because there's something I've been grappling with |
| 0:40.7 | whether to bring up in this podcast. |
| 0:42.9 | I certainly would have found it helpful to hear from people who are actually |
| 0:47.7 | in the middle of it. |
| 0:49.9 | One single episode every Saturday, The Weekend Intelligence. |
| 0:53.6 | You're new, we can't have it. |
| 0:57.0 | The forest bed is absolutely confident, all sorts of grasses and shrubs. |
| 1:01.1 | And I've also got ants running off the top of my legs, and the legs house is just |
| 1:05.4 | on my left. |
| 1:06.6 | You can see it just poking out of the riverbank and above it is a large blue and |
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