Cabin crew, prepare for landing.

Wow, that was a quick flight.

Never mind, Bondi Beach, barrier, reef, here we come.

Holiday of a lifetime, cannot wait.

Me neither.

Ladies and gentlemen, we'll shortly be landing in Austria.

Austria? We're supposed to be going to Australia.

What have you done?

Should have gone to Specck, Save us.

Book an eye test online.

Has anyone got any long trousers I could borrow?

I've only got a bikini, Andy.

This is a global original podcast.

Hello and welcome to full disclosure with me, James O'Brien, a podcast project conceived chiefly

to allow me to spend more time than is ordinarily available with people that I've always wanted

to meet.

And that is a category into which this week's guest falls rather squarely, Lionel Barber,

until very recently the editor of the Financial Times and

the author of The Powerful and the Damned Private Diaries in Turbulent Times covering the last

decade and a half of international affairs. And I could tell you that when you are punting around

for people to be kind enough to put an endorsement upon the cover of your book,

when you've got Tony Blair and Sir Harold Evans there,

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