What Next: Putin’s Hunger for Money
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because |
| 0:05.4 | I'm a bit for homebody and I love a 5. |
| 0:08.0 | But I think it's just the holiday period, it's just for me, it's the most romantic period. |
| 0:14.2 | And I think anyone who's listened to my records will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance. |
| 0:18.8 | Joy in every sip with red carp's now back at Starbucks. |
| 0:23.6 | Sam Mendes presents Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, an audible original drama. |
| 0:31.6 | The young gentleman's name would be Oliver. Oliver Twist. |
| 0:36.6 | With Brian Cox as Fagin. |
| 0:38.6 | What have you seen? Street boy. |
| 0:40.6 | Nicola Cochlan as Nancy and Daniel Callugia as Bill Sykes. |
| 0:45.6 | Oh look at me like a hello to my lawyer. |
| 0:47.6 | I love you, baby. |
| 0:48.6 | With original music by Dan Gillespie's cells, subscription required, see audible.co.uk for terms. |
| 1:04.6 | Bill Browder wanted to make lots of money, but not for the usual reasons. |
| 1:10.6 | It was a strange motivation. |
| 1:13.6 | I come from an unusual American family. My grandfather was the head of the Communist Party of America. |
| 1:21.6 | And my father was a left-wing, left-leaning professor. |
| 1:27.6 | And so in my teenage rebellion, I decided to put on a suit and tie and become a capitalist to upset my family. |
| 1:36.6 | He went to Stanford Business School. |
| 1:39.6 | And he happened to graduate the same year that the Berlin Wall got torn down. |
| 1:43.6 | And I had the supiphany one day, which is that if my grandfather was the biggest communist in America, |
| 1:48.6 | and the Berlin Wall has come down, I'm going to become the biggest capitalist in Russia. |
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