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Throughout the summer, we've been bringing you interesting conversations with interesting people here on newscast on a Sunday, we've gone to the theater, we've gone to the House of Lords, we've gone into space.
Now we're going to go across the whole world in a geopolitical sense, because my guest is Doctor Fiona Hill, former White House advisor, former student at St.
Andrews University, now chancellor of Durham University, and a really interesting thinker on foreign policy who came to the world's attention when she was summoned as a witness in the impeachment trial of then President Donald Trump.
Here's the conversation I had with her in the newscast studio.
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Fiona, hello.
Hi there.
How are you?
I'm very well, thank you.
And welcome back to Newscast.
Thank you.
But in previous episodes, well, in previous episodes, where we've had about 15 minutes, we've now got about 40 minutes, so good job.
The world is quite chaotic at the moment.
There's plenty of trouble spots that we can look at.
But before we go on a kind of tour around the world, I just wanted to do a bit of your kind of personal history.
And so what was happening in County Durham in the eighties when you were a teenager and you decided that Russian was the thing that you wanted to get into?
Well, look, that was the period that actually, it's the subject of a Netflix series at the moment about the Cold War and the bomb, where we had the war scares with the Soviet Union, the 1980s.