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Radio 4,08 Jan 2024,45 mins

Move faster on Post Office convictions, government told

The World Tonight

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With the government under pressure to act quickly in the Post Office IT scandal, a former Lord Chancellor tells us that new legislation is needed immediately. Also on the programme: Cowbells and tractor horns on the streets of Berlin today - as German farmers expressed their frustrations. We find out why. And the legendary German footballer Franz Beckenbauer has died. We hear what he was like to play against - from a member of the England team he helped defeat in the 1970 World Cup Quarter Final.

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