112. THE ELECTION WILL BE TELEVISED: leaders’ debates and democracy
Reasons Revisited
Geoff Lloyd
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Hello! The UK was late to the party on holding TV election debates. What can we learn from other countries about how to do them well? Nick Anstead talks us through why we avoided debates for so long and where we’re still going wrong. US expert Diana Carlin explains the history of presidential debates and why she thinks they’ve been good for democracy. Then Graham Fox discusses Canada’s recent experience of overhauling how their debates are run.
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Comedian Pierre Novellie returns to pick apart the first week of the General Election campaigning
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| 1:25.0 | This is Reasons to Be cheerful with Ed Millivand and Jeff Lloyd. |
| 1:29.6 | Hello! I'm sorry to say no, Ed this week. The plan had been to talk to him |
| 1:34.7 | live from Don Kaster, where of course he is campaigning as the Labour Party candidate in this |
| 1:39.2 | election, but as you will have seen in the news, that part of the country has been severely |
| 1:45.6 | affected by flooding. It's just terrible. People's lives have been turned upside down. |
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