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 • 62 episodes
Three Old Hacks
Latest Episodes
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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Episode 62
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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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Episode 61
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The Afghan scandal
The Three Old Hacks consider the ramifications of the Afghan super-injunction story which has consumed the British media this week and the way it has "seeped into the toxic subject of immigration".The British have something of a "neglige...
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Episode 60
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It's all about regime change
The Three Old Hacks considers Israel's war with Iran, the expectation of what 'two-week Trump' will do and how likely it is that Britain will get dragged in.Former BBC Sports editor Mihir Bose, Economics editor of The Sunday Times
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Episode 59
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Memories aren't what they used to be
The Three Old Hacks talk political memoirs this week. Were they always as salacious, and as quickly turned round post-administration as they are now?Barely has the imprint of the politician's backside faded from the leather of the despat...
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Episode 58
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