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I'm Rosie Bloor.
And I'm Jason Palmer.
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Quantum technology involves something called qubits that should help us solve problems exponentially faster than today's computers.
Britain is surprisingly good at this qubit thing.
Question is, can it turn early promise into a lasting advantage?
And picture and orchestra, all those bows scraping across strings.
Odds are, they're all made from the same wood.
The wood that this week conservationists are fighting to protect more strongly in international law.
But it's not clear that they really need to.
First up
though The island of Cuba has been one of the world's last resolute bastions of pure textbook communism going back to the late 1950s Long time listeners to the intelligence will remember that back in Donald Trump's first term we visited a lot Then it was run by Raoul Castro,
fellow revolutionary brother of Fidel, whose popular revolt has defined the country for six decades.
We kept hearing about Cuban's struggles,
long lines to get into stores with nothing on the shelves,
the market distortions of parallel currencies,
one that sported Castro's bare-topped face and another pegged to the US dollar,
the pains of a country whose diplomatic relations with its neighbor just 90 miles to the north had still never quite normalized.