Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, in conversation with Rudyard Griffiths, Chair and moderator of the Munk Debates. 

The following is a sample of the Munk Debates’ weekly current affairs podcast, Friday Focus.  

On this week’s edition of the Friday Focus podcast, Janice and Rudyard start the show with a discussion of what we got wrong in terms of how the Ukraine War would unfold. Next, the program takes up this weekend’s Nigerian elections. Is the vote a de facto ballot on the future of Africa? Friday Focus wraps up with a discussion of the debate over reforming Israel’s top court. What is going on in the Middle East’s only democracy, and what does it mean for the future of the state of Israel?

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