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Hello and welcome to Spectator Outloud. Each week we choose some of our favorite pieces from the magazine and ask their writers to read them aloud. I'm Patrick Gibbons and on this week's

podcast.

Reading his diary for the week, Fraser Nelson reflects on a historic week for the spectator.

David Whitehouse asks whether the toughest problem in maths will ever be solved.

Imogen Yates reports on the booming health tech industry. How helpful are health gadgets really?

Reviewing Dan Jones's book, Henry the 5th, the astonishing rise of England's greatest warrior king, Shaw McGlynn concludes that there

is no doubting the military genius of this pivotal monarch. And as he approaches his 90,000th cigarette,

Rory Clark provides his notes on Rowley's. Up first, Fraser Nelson.

For the last year or so, I've been involved in selling the spectator as well as editing it.

A long auction involving moguls, shakes and an act of parliament has finally produced a winner.

Sir Paul Marshall, the financier, has become the 14th proprietor of this magazine.

His faith in our prospects is reflected in the size of a deal, 100 million, five times what we were

valued at when we split from a Daily Telegraph in 2005. There were 22 interested parties in this

auction, some of the greatest names in British and European

publishing, all bidding each other up. The result and the price stands as a spectacular

vindication of what my colleagues have achieved. I think it's safe to say that the death of political

and cultural magazines has been somewhat exaggerated. After the deal was announced, I spent the day speaking to broadcasters who wanted to know

if Sir Paul is doing this not because he wants to buy a growing magazine, but because he wants

an incredibly expensive means of influencing the Tory leadership contest.

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