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Gary Young is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. He is editor at large for the Guardian,

and a monthly political columnist for the nation. He lived in the United States from 2003 to 2015,

and his books include Stranger in a Strange Land, encounters in the disunited States. No place like

home, a black Britons journey through the American South, and his most recent another day

in the death of America, a harrowing account of children's lives cut short by the ubiquity

of gun violence in the US. Gary, thanks for coming. Thanks for having me. We've been really keen

to get you here for a long time. I particularly enjoy your journalism and your commentary on the

subject of violence. What are you? I mean, we know that you're here to talk about another day

in the death of America, where did you, were the devices that just in one 24 hour period,

I suppose, elevate the deaths that take place on that day until their stories. Did you really just

choose the date random? I did. It was the first date I could do. I've been in London promoting a

previous book in October, and then I came back at a seven month old baby, so I had a little bit of

work to do to get in the good graces of my family. Then there was Thanksgiving. My family's

America. My wife is American, and this was the first Saturday after Thanksgiving, so it was literally

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