The Edition: Harry’s crusade

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🗓️ 8 June 2023

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This week:

Prince Harry has taken the stand to give evidence in the Mirror Group phone hacking trial which The Spectator’s deputy editor Freddy Gray talks about in his cover piece for the magazine. He is joined by Patrick Jephson, former private secretary to Princess Diana, to discuss whether Harry's 'suicide mission' against the press is ill-advised. (01:22)

Also this week:

In The Spectator professor Robert Tombs details the trouble with returning the Benin Bronzes back to Nigeria, arguing that their restitution is more complicated than some claim. He is joined by Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, executive director of the Restitution Study Group, who have recently screened a short film in Cannes, detailing why they think the bronzes should stay where they are. (14:07)

And finally:

Journalist Emily Rhodes writes this week about the rise of fake libraries and the current online trend for having phoney books on bookshelves. She joins the podcast alongside The Spectator’s literary editor Sam Leith, to discuss whether this fad could spell the end for books as we know them. (22:39)

Hosted by Lara Prendergast and William Moore.

Produced by Oscar Edmondson.

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0:34.4	Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator, where each week we look at three pieces from the magazine with the writers behind them.
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0:49.3	On this week's episode, we'll be looking at Prince Harry's Crusade Against the Media,
0:55.5	discussing the complicated history of the Benin bronzers and charting the rise of fake libraries.
1:00.0	First up, this week, Prince Harry has taken the stand to give evidence in the Mirror Group
1:05.2	phone hacking trial, which the spectator's deputy editor, Freddie Gray, writes about in his
1:10.1	cover piece.
1:16.2	Freddie argues that Prince Harry's suicide mission against the press is ill-advised.
1:21.5	He joins me now, along with Patrick Jefferson, former private secretary to Princess Diana.
1:27.4	Freddie, you say in your piece that Harry came across very ill-prepared. Could you take our listeners through some of
1:30.2	the testimony that he has given this week that led you to that conclusion? Well, I think it was
1:35.6	extremely odd, even for people that have been following this quite closely, because Harry
1:40.9	submitted his witness statement, which we saw yesterday, which is Monday, I should say.
1:47.3	And it was an extraordinary sort of splurge of sentiment.
1:52.3	And I thought reading it, I thought it read a bit like offcuts from spare bits that the ghost writer had said, we really can't put this in.
2:03.3	It was just a lot about his feelings and so on.
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