Mark Bowden

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954 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 7 Aug

Mark Bowden’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 4 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 1.

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And it easily happens.

When somebody has a crisis, you'll often go, hey, well, you know, I've had something like that crisis before, and you'll try and out-crisis them.

Exactly.

This is when you know that you're probably not being the best friend you possibly could.

Always a pleasure, Maureen.

Always.

That's why this is such a provocation.

Maureen, thanks for having me.

A new year, but some of the old candidates back in the frame, I think.

Some of the old troublemakers still with us.

Well, look, as you know, Maureen, often I don't know as much as you do and your viewers do about the context of what's happening around here.

So I watch this and I instantly go, here's somebody on a bit of a PR campaign, it would seem to me, about don't judge people too harshly.

He says, look, he always learned that you, you know, you can't judge your character.

And there's an upturn of the side of his mouth asymmetrically into contempt.

So he's kind of contemptuous either of the idea of judging people or maybe even being judged himself.

There's that off the bat.

Then a big eyebrow raise.

OK, I look for approval on he's doing these things, but he doesn't think there's anything wrong with them.

You know, people who are doing bad things, they often don't think there's anything wrong with them.

And he's looking for your approval on this.

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