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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud, where each week we choose some of our favourite pieces from the magazine and ask that writers to read them aloud.

I'm Patrick Gibbons and on this week's podcast, Rory Nicol reads his letter from Havana.

Angus Colwell takes us through an A to Z of London horrors.

Mary Wakefield points out the glaring flaw in Kirstama's cohesion plan.

As old friends die and his capabilities wane,

Alan Bennett becomes increasingly reflective,

says Philip Henscher as he reviews Bennett's published diary. And finally, complaining about nudists

in Italy, Nicholas Farrell reflects on Jeffrey Epstein and Silvio Bolusconi. Up first, Rory Nicol.

It's nearly two months since Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing a total oil blockade on Cuba and life is becoming order.

At the weekend in a down island town called Moron, teenage kids burnt down the local Communist Party

headquarters. Meanwhile, here in Havana, we're awaiting the arrival of the Irish hip hopper's kneecap at the head of an amada,

carrying solar panels.

I live in a rooftop apartment.

At night it's a good spot from which to look out over a city that once sent up music and light,

but is now as dark as a desert.

The oil blockade, designed to either force the bankrupt communist government into

major reform or the population to rise up against them, is worsening what were already

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