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# poDcast(1): a week on openDemocracy
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/podcast1-4243jsp/
- Published: 2007-01-12T00:01:00.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:55:04.000Z
- Author: Open democracy
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 19:37

Welcome to the first of **openDemocracy's** new weekly poDcasts. Hear our writers and contributors expand on their articles with topical debate on current affairs, science, technology, arts and culture.

This week: Isabel Hilton, reflects on President Bush's latest plans for Iraq with respected academic, Paul Rogers, plus we get reaction from the blogosphere, openDemocracy staff illuminate the finer points of our [predictive markets game](https://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-vision%5Freflections/inkling%5Fmarkets%5F4202.jsp), and Stephen Howe reviews the new British film, [*The Last King of Scotland*](https://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Film/last%5Fking%5F4241.jsp).

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