{"podcast":{"title":"UK Column News","slug":"uk-column-news-315425","podcast_index_feed_id":315425,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1044e334c/podcast/rss","website_url":"http://www.ukcolumn.org/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/43572011/3e727f1068800296.png","author":"UK Column","episode_count":1204,"summary":"The UK Column is an independent news organisation analysing the information war. Operating without financial backing or external investment, we remain free from advertisers, foundations, and political parties, relying solely on support from our audience through memberships and donations.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T02:17:04.047862+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uk-column-news-315425"},"episode":{"title":"Africa's Unknown High Speed Railway Network | Jerm Warfare","slug":"africa-s-unknown-high-speed-railway-network-jerm-warfare","published_at":"2026-07-01T19:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uk-column-news-315425/africa-s-unknown-high-speed-railway-network-jerm-warfare","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uk-column-news-315425","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukcolumn/episodes/Africas-Unknown-High-Speed-Railway-Network--Jerm-Warfare-e3lh6b5","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1044e334c/podcast/play/122246949/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-1%2F427168235-44100-2-1ff908c2b53a3.mp3","summary":"PD Lawton explains the African Integrated High-Speed Railway Network — a 2013 project to electrify and connect all of Africa by rail. Ethiopia and Tanzania are already building; China partners genuinely on a win-win basis, whilst the West pushes a "debt trap" propaganda narrative to block development and keep Africa extracting minerals rather than industrialising. Western media ignores it almost entirely, and the main missing ingredient is political will. https://africanagenda.net ► Join UK Column Live every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1pm UK time or watch previous live recordings here ► [UK Column Website] Explore all our written and video content on the official UK Column website ► [Support UK Column] Please donate to support our independent journalism & investigative journalism ► [UK Column YouTube] Please subscribe to the UK Column News YouTube channel for more alternative news and independent news Follow #UKColumn on: ► X ► Telegram ► Facebook ► Instagram","meta_description":"PD Lawton explains the African Integrated High-Speed Railway Network — a 2013 project to electrify and connect all of Africa by rail. Ethiopia and Tanzani…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3464,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/uk-column-news-315425/episodes/africa-s-unknown-high-speed-railway-network-jerm-warfare/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uk-column-news-315425/africa-s-unknown-high-speed-railway-network-jerm-warfare.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}