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The Hard Shoulder Highlights

The Hard Shoulder Highlights with Kieran Cuddihy on Newstalk. Join Kieran every weekday afternoon from 4-7pm for a round-up of the day’s events, interviews with the people at the centre of the stories – and a bit of craic along the way. Listen and subscribe to The Hard Shoulder on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify.      Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.    You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

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'I thought they were going to kill me' - British fighter tortured by Russian forces

Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian Marines in 2018. Four years later, he was stationed at the front line in Mariupol, where he was part of a mass surrender. He was singled out for his British passport and was taken as a prisoner of war. Now, he, along with the help of John Sweeney, has written a book about his experience in their book 'Putin’s Prisoner: My time as a prisoner of war in Ukraine'. Both John and Aiden joined Kieran on The Hard Shoulder to discuss...