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<copyright>&#x2117; &amp; &#xA9; 2009 Mark Thomas</copyright>
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<itunes:summary>Some podcasts of shows by Mark Thomas</itunes:summary>
<itunes:explicit>Yes</itunes:explicit>
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<title>Interview with Costas Lapavitsas.</title>
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<itunes:subtitle>Show 10, Part 2 - Discussion with Costas Lapavitsas from the School of Oriental and African Studies.</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary>Mark talks to Costas Lapavitsas from the School of Oriental and African Studies.</itunes:summary>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>20:30</itunes:duration>
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<title>Interview with Hugh Willmott.</title>
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<itunes:subtitle>Show 10, Part 1 - Discussion with Hugh Willmott, of the Cardiff Business School.</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary>Mark talks to Hugh Willmott, of the Cardiff Business School.</itunes:summary>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Interview with Gerry Gold.</title>
<itunes:author>Mark Thomas</itunes:author>
<itunes:subtitle>Show 9, Part 2 - Discussion with Gerry Gold, member of LEAP and author of "House of Cards".</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary>Mark talks to Gerry Gold, member of LEAP and author of "House of Cards".</itunes:summary>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Interview with Richard Wilkinson.</title>
<itunes:author>Mark Thomas</itunes:author>
<itunes:subtitle>Show 9, Part 1 - Discussion with Richard Wilkinson, co-author of "The Spirit Level" about social and economic inequality.</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary>Mark talks to Richard Wilkinson, co-author of "The Spirit Level" about social and economic inequality.</itunes:summary>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>19:28</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>Mark Thomas, Richard Wilkinson</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Interview with Josh Ryan-Collins.</title>
<itunes:author>Mark Thomas</itunes:author>
<itunes:subtitle>Show 7, Part 3 - Discussion with Josh Ryan-Collins of the New Economics Foundation.</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary>Mark talks to Josh Ryan-Collins of the New Economics Foundation.</itunes:summary>
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>09:49</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>Mark Thomas, Josh Ryan-Collins</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Interview with Nick Hildyard.</title>
<itunes:author>Mark Thomas</itunes:author>
<itunes:subtitle>Show 7, Part 2 - Discussion with Nick Hildyard of The Corner House.</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary>Mark talks to Nick Hildyard from The Corner House.</itunes:summary>
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>20:58</itunes:duration>
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<title>Interview with Paul Mason.</title>
<itunes:author>Mark Thomas</itunes:author>
<itunes:subtitle>Show 7, Part 1 - Discussion with Paul Mason of Newsnight.</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary>Mark talks to Paul Mason from Newsnight.</itunes:summary>
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>34:31</itunes:duration>
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<title>Interview with Caroline Lucas.</title>
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<itunes:subtitle>Show 6, Part 3 - Discussion with Caroline Lucas.</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary>Mark talks to Caroline Lucas, leader of the green party.</itunes:summary>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>19:14</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>Mark Thomas, Caroline Lucas</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Interview with Richard Brooks.</title>
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<itunes:subtitle>Show 6, Part 2 - Discussion with Richard Brooks.</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary>Mark talks to Richard Brooks, Guardian and Private Eye journalist.</itunes:summary>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>32:01</itunes:duration>
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<title>Interview with Nick Dearden.</title>
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<itunes:subtitle>Show 6, Part 1 - Discussion with Nick Dearden.</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary>Mark talks to Nick Dearden about vulture funds, very nasty.</itunes:summary>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>13:11</itunes:duration>
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<title>Interview with Vince Cable.</title>
<itunes:author>Mark Thomas</itunes:author>
<itunes:subtitle>Show 5, Part 3 - Discussion with Vince Cable.</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary>Mark talks to Vince Cable about the financial crisis.</itunes:summary>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>32:12</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>Mark Thomas, Vince Cable</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Interview with Sargon Nissan.</title>
<itunes:author>Mark Thomas</itunes:author>
<itunes:subtitle>Show 5, part 2 - A second interview with Sargon Nissan.</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary>Mark talks to Sargon about more financial anomalies.</itunes:summary>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>24:40</itunes:duration>
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<title>Interview with Faisal Rahman.</title>
<itunes:author>Mark Thomas</itunes:author>
<itunes:subtitle>Show 5, part 1 - Interview with Faisal Rahman from the Fair Finance Campaign.</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary>Mark talks to Faisal about the work of the Fair Finance Campaign and how the public are ripped off by some loan companies.</itunes:summary>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>17:15</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>Mark Thomas, Faisal Rahman</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Interview with Paul Kenny.</title>
<itunes:author>Mark Thomas</itunes:author>
<itunes:subtitle>Show 2, part 2 - Interview with Paul Kenny, General Secretary of the GMB.</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary>Mark talks to Paul Kenny about unions and, amongst other things, the chances labour have of winning the next election.</itunes:summary>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>19:07</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>Mark Thomas, Paul Kenny</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Interview with PremSikka and John Christensen.</title>
<itunes:author>Mark Thomas</itunes:author>
<itunes:subtitle>Show 4, part 3 - Interview with Prem Sikka and John Christensen.</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary>Mark talks to Prem Sikka, Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and John Christensen about what future policies should be.</itunes:summary>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>22:12</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>Mark Thomas, John Christensen, Prem Sikka</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Interview with PremSikka.</title>
<itunes:author>Mark Thomas</itunes:author>
<itunes:subtitle>Show 4, part 2 - Interview with Prem Sikka.</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary>Mark talks to Prem Sikka, Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex about tax avoidance schemes ond other things.</itunes:summary>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>21:54</itunes:duration>
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<title>Interview with John Christensen.</title>
<itunes:author>Mark Thomas</itunes:author>
<itunes:subtitle>Show 4, part 1 - Interview with John Christensen.</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary>Mark talks to John Christensen about Tax havens, Jersey, tax evasion/avoidance, CDOs and bananas.</itunes:summary>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>24:54</itunes:duration>
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<title>Discussion of RBS with Activists.</title>
<itunes:author>Mark Thomas</itunes:author>
<itunes:subtitle>Discussion of RBS with Activists..</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary>Mark talks to some activists about the economic crisis, RBS and more.</itunes:summary>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>16:42</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>Mark Thomas, The London Coalition Against Poverty, People and Planet, Platform, Economy, Comedy, Laura Applegate, Bronwyn Smith-Thomas, Kev Thomas</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Interview with Dr Paulo Dos Santos, an economist from The School of Oriental and African Studies.</title>
<itunes:author>Mark Thomas</itunes:author>
<itunes:subtitle>Interview with Dr Paulo Dos Santos, an economist from The School of Oriental and African Studies.</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary>Mark talks to Dr Paulo Dos Santos about the financial crisis, what the banks are doing with all the money they've been given, financialisation and more.</itunes:summary>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>34:56</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>Mark Thomas, Dr Paulo Dos Santos, Economy, Comedy</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Interview with Austin Mitchell, Labour MP for Grimsby</title>
<itunes:author>Mark Thomas</itunes:author>
<itunes:subtitle>Interview with Austin Mitchell, Labour MP for Grimsby.</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary>Mark talks to Austin Mitchell about the financial crisis and discusses Austin's ideas for how we get out of it.</itunes:summary>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
<itunes:duration>21:22</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>Mark Thomas, Austin Mitchell, Economy, Comedy</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Interview with Sargon Nissan from the New Economics Foundation (NEF).</title>
<itunes:author>Mark Thomas</itunes:author>
<itunes:subtitle>Interview with Sargon Nissan from the New Economics Foundation (NEF) on the financial crisis.</itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:summary>Sargon is an interesting chap, he started his working life as a city trader and ended up specialising in community finance with the progressive think tank NEF. Mark talks with him about bankers, their products and what the alternatives are.</itunes:summary>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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