Good morning,

I had the sudden pleasure earlier of getting a surprise message from a friend working at South African Radio Station Power987 asking me to talk briefly about the assassination of Shinzo Abe (RIP).

No, you can’t relisten to it - it was live and there wasn’t much that I said that you can’t Google anyway - but it was pretty cool!

— Cyril

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