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Three Old HacksAuthor: Mihir Bose, David Smith, Nigel Dudley
Mihir Bose former BBC Sports Editor, David Smith Economics Editor of the Sunday Times and political commentator Nigel Dudley have been friends since they first met while working at Financial Weekly in 1980s. They have kept in touch regularly, setting the world to rights over various lunches and dinners. With coronavirus making that impossible, what do journalists do, deprived of long convivial lunches over a bottle of red wine or several? Why, podcast of course.Get in contact with the podcast by emailing threeoldhacks@outlook.com, wed love to hear from you! Language: en-gb Genres: News, News Commentary Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Fings ain't what they used to be - or are they?
Episode 69
Monday, 21 September, 2026
What difference will the huge amount of money Reform has received recently from private donors make to their campaigning? Are our elections becoming more like they are in America?Are the anti-immigration protests from black uniformed men in balaclavas different from those the National Front mounted in the 1970s? Racism has always been present just under the surface in British society but it is now bubbling up in the most vicious and unpleasant way. The Three Old Hacks look out their RNLI branded shopping bags in solidarity with the lifeboat crews.Are we still in a cost of living 'crisis'?And are newspapers becoming all the same as they deploy fewer staff and more agency copy?The Three Old Hacks consider the week's news.Nigel and his wife Helyn are hosting a Macmillan Coffee Morning on Friday 25th September to raise money for the cancer charity. If you'd like to make a donation, you can visit their fundraising page: https://cm26.macmillan.org.uk/fundraising/cm26020173 or donate directly here: https://donate.justgiving.com/fundraising/cm26020173/donation-amount Get in contact with the podcast by emailing threeoldhacks@outlook.com, we’d love to hear from you!
