
Three Old Hacks
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, we’d love to hear from you!
Podcasting since 2020 • 63 episodes
Three Old Hacks
Latest Episodes
The vanity of Donald Trump
The Three Old Hacks discuss the visit of Donald Trump and whether our Prime Minister's apparent fawning over him is the only way to treat someone so vain."Flattery pays off with Trump", says David Smith, Economics editor of the Sunday T...
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Season 1
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Episode 63
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59:48

Trump wants a deal and Putin wants Ukraine
The Three Old Hacks discuss the negotiations over Ukraine. Did Trump get rolled over by Putin? Would Mrs Thatcher have gone to America in the way the European leaders have? There have been lots of "vacuous generalisations" about what Europe's w...
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Season 1
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Episode 62
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44:44

When world leaders treat countries like personal playgrounds
The Three Old Hacks look at what might lie behind Keir Starmer's announcement that Britain will recognise a Palestinian state, if Israel does not stop the war in Gaza.They celebrate the Lionesses' victory in the Euros and discuss Donald ...
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Season 1
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Episode 61
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