2025-05-30
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Good Bad Billionaire is back for a brand new season.
And this time, we're shaking things up on the podcast,
looking back on the lives and fortunes of US industry titans.
From one of the founders of the American retail giant Walmart, Sam Walton.
To the aviator, filmmaker, property tycoon,
playboy and original eccentric billionaire, Howard Hughes.
Simon and I are asking if they were good, bad or just another billionaire.
That's Good Bad Dead Billionaire from the BBC World Service.
With me, Zing Zing.
And me, Simon Jack.
Listen now, search for Good Bad... billionaire wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
Hello, this is The Explanation from the BBC World Service recorded on the 28th of May.
I'm John Simpson and you're listening to Unspun World.
the programme that goes behind the headlines with the BBC's unmatched correspondence to find out what's really going on.
This week, a former Israeli prime minister accuses the country of committing war crimes in Gaza.
But will that affect the Netanyahu government's approach?
Ms Netanyahu is very adept at batting that off and essentially turning the velocity of it coming at him back on the person who's sending that criticism.
What's the impact on ordinary Ukrainians of the latest onslaught by Russia on civilian targets?
People get more tired, people get sometimes frustrated.