12 May 2023
Episode 3020
33 minutes
We focus on Pakistan as former prime minister Imran Khan arrives in court. Plus: Monocle’s David Phelan brings us a tech round-up, we head to Liverpool for Eurovision with Fernando Augusto Pacheco, and Andrew Mueller wraps up the week with ‘What We Learned’.
12 May 2023
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