8. The Last Election…?
The Coming Storm
BBC
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Gabriel Gatehouse, producer Lucy Proctor and Ben Ansell, Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at Oxford University, in front of a live audience at the BBC’s Radio Theatre.
As the team emerges from series 2, what have we learned about the future of democracy in an age of technological change and split realities?
Producer: Lucy Proctor Sound design and mix: James Beard Editor: Richard Vadon Script consultants: Richard Fenton-Smith and Afsaneh Gray Commissioning editor: Dan Clarke Original music: Pete Cunningham
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| 0:00.0 | 2024 presidential election ahead. |
| 0:04.6 | Join America on the road to the US election. |
| 0:07.5 | It's the BBC podcast full of lively chats about politics and social media investigations. |
| 0:13.0 | Expert insights this way. |
| 0:15.0 | We'll guide you through all the key moments as the United States chooses which direction to go in next. |
| 0:21.0 | Final destination, the White House. |
| 0:24.0 | Navigate your way to Election Day and beyond. |
| 0:27.0 | America. |
| 0:28.0 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
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| 0:35.0 | Hello, welcome back. |
| 0:38.0 | I am Gabriel Gatehouse and this is Series 2 of the coming storm from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:45.0 | And this is the last episode in the series and it's a little different. |
| 0:49.0 | We're recording it in front of a live audience in the radio theater at BBC Broadcasting House in London. |
| 0:55.0 | Very good you you guys are good at this. Thank you. |
| 1:05.0 | Right, so we're going to be talking about conspiracy theories, |
| 1:10.0 | their intersection with technological change, and the US presidential election. |
| 1:15.8 | We're also going to be talking about rabbit holes. |
| 1:18.7 | And at points Lucy and I have felt like we've been falling down our own rabbit hole. There were so many elements to the coming storm, so many bits of the puzzle. Some of them didn't make it into the series. And here's a bit that didn't make it into an earlier episode. |
| 1:39.0 | A while back when I was first digging into the long routes of January the 6th I came across this guy |
| 1:45.8 | Dave Troy that's April 13th at 408 p.m. My wife was in hospital for an operation |
| 1:52.0 | so I was a little distracted, but he kept sending me |
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