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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud.

Each week we choose some of our favourite pieces from the magazine and ask their writers to read them aloud.

I'm Patrick Gibbons and on this week's podcast,

Quentin Lett takes us through his diary for the week.

Owen Matthews details the Shadow Fleet helping Russia to evade oil sanctions.

Michael Han reports on the country music revival as country star Morgan Wallen becomes set to be the first

to headline a non-country music festival in the UK.

And Laura Gascoigne reviews Now You See Us, a collection of

women artists from 1520 to 1920 at the Tate Britain, alongside the Beryl Cook and Tom of Finland

exhibition at Studio Voltaire. Finally, Michael Simmons provides his expert notes on that 3am post-pub

staple, the Donner Cabab. Up first, Quentin Letts.

For the first time in more than two decades, we are dogless, and the house feels horribly empty.

Our Patterdale Terrier, Bonnie, led a long, vigorous life, but her balance had gone and her

breathing was heavy, so we called the vet.

Paterdale's are little imps, and Bonnie was known to the police.

I never discussed politics with her, but she liked Lib Dems,

that is, she liked biting them.

A public footpaths by Sexar Garden.

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