Gus Carter, Paul Wood, Jonathan Aitken, Laura Gascoigne and Flora Watkins

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This week: Gus Carter reports from Rotherham (01:10), Paul Wood asks whether anything can stop full-scale conflict in the Middle East (05:55), Jonathan Aitken takes us inside Nixon's resignation melodrama (16:55), Laura Gascoigne reviews Revealing Nature: The Art of Cedric Morris and Lett-Haines (26:08), and Flora Watkins reads her notes on ragwort (31:24).
Produced and presented by Oscar Edmondson.

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Gus Carter, Paul Wood, Jonathan Aitken, Laura Gascoigne and Flora Watkins

Spectator Out Loud

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