Odd Arne Westad
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116 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Jun
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But I think he is, he was much more pessimistic than I thought he was going to be.
He was much more, he was, I've always sensed he's got quite an optimistic outlook.
He thinks we'll somehow work our way through this.
But to admit that you shouldn't read your book, and he's not helping his sales here, that you shouldn't read the book before you go to sleep, because that's where most people do read books, I think.
But no, I thought that was great.
I'm really glad we did that.
I think our listeners will love that.
And by the way, that is so important.
I mean, I'm struck by...
you know, traveling around the place and you quite often run into diplomats from different parts who are stationed abroad in different parts of the world.
And you do meet quite a lot of people that say, oh, you don't need to worry about the language too much because everybody speaks, everybody we deal with speaks English.
But you get so much more if you can, particularly in a country like China.
You know, because you're not having just to read and understand.
You're having to analyze it as well because they don't necessarily communicate in the same way.
But no, I thought it was great.
Really good.
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