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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud.

Each week we choose some of our favourite pieces from the magazine and ask their writers to read them aloud.

I'm Patrick Gibbons and on this week's podcast, Paul Wood wonders if Donald

Trump would really bomb Iran. In her final week as the spectator's political editor, Katie Balls

discusses NHS reform, Blairism and Game of Thrones with Wes Streeting as she interviews the

health secretary with our editor, Michael Gove. As meat consumption in Britain hits its lowest level since records began,

Olivia Potts says that lamb is for life, not just for Easter.

The explorer Benedict Allen reviews two books on exploration to Earth's extremities,

Erling Cags, the North Pole, The History of an Obsession,

and Neil Shubin's Ends of the Earth, journeys to the polar regions in search of life, the North Pole, the history of an obsession, and Neil Shubin's ends of the earth,

journeys to the polar regions in search of life, the cosmos and our future. And he says that both

are dancing with death. In his guest life column, Cosmo Landisman reflects on the impact turning

70 has had on his sex life, and he says he's still holding out hope for one last fling. And finally, in his

wildlife column, Aidan Hartley takes us through many of the anthropomorphic animals he has seen

during his time in Africa. Up first, Paul Wood. A satellite picture shows six American B-2

stealth bombers parked on the runway at Diego Garcia. The planes,

each with a distinctive flying wing shape like a bat, are sinister, otherworldly, and seem like a portent.

Surely that's the idea. Donald Trump has warned the Iranian leadership there will be bombing

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