The Wargame
The Slow Newscast
Alice Sandelson
4.6 • 894 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
A bunker. A scenario. A group of former senior ministers, military chiefs and other experts. Russia knows our weaknesses – but do you?
Sky News' security and defence editor Deborah Haynes presents The Wargame. From Sky News and Tortoise, it imagines how a Russian attack on the UK could play out... and how military chiefs and politicians might try to defend the country.
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| 1:31.4 | Hello, it's Bashar here, and for this week's slow newscast, we've got something a bit different. |
| 1:36.9 | There's an ongoing and lively debate about Britain's defences. What state are they in? How much |
| 1:42.3 | should we spend on them? Should we be spending more on the nuclear deterrent? For months at Tortus and at The Observer, we've been working with the Defence Editor at Sky News, Deborah Haynes and her colleagues to make a series exploring what might happen if Russia launched an attack against Britain. It's called The War Game. |
| 2:01.9 | And here's episode one. |
| 2:03.5 | Episode two is also available now. |
| 2:05.7 | Just search The War Game, wherever you get your podcasts, |
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