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Hello and welcome to the New European Podcast. My name's Richard Porre and I'm joined by a very

special guest, a new European podcast debutante, Mr Ben Krask, historian and writer. Ben, welcome.

Thank you very much for having me. How are you doing? I'm okay. You're standing in. Steve is on

holiday. I don't think he's gone anywhere special because that's a little bit difficult to do in this day and age.

But you're a good friend of ours and Steve's and I've got plenty of opinions, so we thought we'd have you on for your debut. Thank you very much for agreeing to come along and be part of this wonderful rambling podcast.

It's great to be here. Now, we've got plenty to get through. We've also got another very special guest, which, Ben, I don't mean to to be rude but the listeners are going to be

far more excited about the next guest because a little bit later on after we've done

the news with you we're going to be talking to that's right listener Jerry Scott now

those of you who've listened to this podcast for a longer period we'll remember that

Jerry was was very much a fixture for the, I don't know,

for a couple of years of this podcast now.

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