New Year dispatches from around the world
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This is a special episode of Stories of our times, where we join Times and Sunday Times correspondents around the globe. Here are their New Year postcards.
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Guests:
-Amrit Dhillon, Delhi correspondent, The Times
-Stephen Gibbs, Latin America correspondent, The Times and Sunday Times
-Didi Tang, Beijing correspondent, The Times
-Charlie Mitchell, Canada correspondent, The Times and Sunday Times
Host: Calum Macdonald.
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| 0:00.0 | They're not authors, but they help you shape your financial story. |
| 0:04.0 | They're not an airline, but they connect global businesses across nearly 160 local markets. |
| 0:10.0 | They're not interpreters, but they listen to and understand their client's needs. |
| 0:14.0 | With global expertise and over two centuries of experience, |
| 0:18.0 | City provides tools, insights and guidance that helps clients thrive. |
| 0:23.0 | They're not just any bank, they are City. |
| 0:26.0 | Learn more at city.com slash we are City. |
| 0:30.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns. |
| 0:38.0 | Now picture you, zooming past it all, light and breezy. |
| 0:46.0 | Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic. |
| 0:51.0 | Book your train journey via AvantiWestcoast.co.uk. |
| 0:55.0 | AvantiWestcoast, feel good travel. |
| 1:08.0 | Hello, I'm Callum McDonald and a very happy new year to you. |
| 1:12.0 | Thankfully for you, I am still indulging in the wine, the cheese, |
| 1:17.0 | you know, all the new year good stuff. |
| 1:19.0 | So actually I'm just dropping by to really say a quick hello today. |
| 1:22.0 | This is part two of our holiday special episodes of stories of our times, |
| 1:27.0 | which means I get to go and put my feet up and listen instead, |
| 1:30.0 | like you're doing now, to our times and Sunday times correspondence. |
| 1:34.0 | Today in our zip around the world, we are hearing from Venezuela, |
| 1:38.0 | from Hong Kong, Canada and India. |
| 1:41.0 | We're finding out how our correspondence have fared in 2021 |
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