Look at who’s talking: divining Trump’s Middle East plans
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The Economist
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🗓️ 8 November 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump will inherit a tangle of conflicts in the Middle East; will he deliver on his promise to “stop the wars”? That will depend on who has his ear. Our correspondent says the way to better rehabilitate people in British prisons is to take some of them out (10:33). And our obituaries editor on the staggeringly productive career of Quincy Jones (19:15).
Additional audio in this episode includes Quincy Jones, “Soul Bossa Nova” and “In Cold Blood”; Michael Jackson, “Billie Jean”, “Bad” and “Thriller”; Lesley Gore, “It's My Party”; USA For Africa, “We Are The World”; DJ Jazzy Jeff, “The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air”; Frank Sinatra, “Fly Me To The Moon”
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| 1:05.6 | The Economist. |
| 1:16.2 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:17.2 | I'm Rosie Bloor. |
| 1:18.6 | And I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:23.3 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. Many countries are locking up an ever larger share of their population the result is overcrowded prisons |
| 1:34.3 | and high reoffending rates our correspondent considers the other possible solutions and we won't even |
| 1:43.3 | try to list all the musical achievements of Quincy Jones. |
| 1:46.9 | Our obituaries editor hits some of the high notes, though, |
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