A-Merry-Cast (The Q&A)
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The team go through your questions for the last time this year.
How bid would the Watergate scandal be if it happened now? Should Supreme Court justices be elected? And are the British presenters developing American accents…
We’ll get into all this and more on a very festive episode of Americast.
HOSTS: * Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter * Marianna Spring, Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent * Anthony Zurcher, North America Correspondent
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This episode was made by Rufus Gray. The technical producer was Ben Andrews. The series producer is Purvee Pattni. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | It is our last episode before Christmas, and we would love to wish all of our listeners |
| 0:09.5 | a Mericast, I hope you understood that pun, which sounds perhaps less good when you say it, |
| 0:16.4 | but when you see it written down, it's actually quite good. |
| 0:18.8 | And as ever, because it's Christmas, it's a time for us to reflect and feel thankful in a perhaps slightly earnest American way, Justin. |
| 0:27.0 | Yes, that's the only way to do it. |
| 0:28.7 | And we are earnestly thankful. |
| 0:30.9 | And we genuinely are thankful to everyone who's given us questions in particular. |
| 0:34.7 | And those questions have come, of course, from right around the world, which is brilliant as well. |
| 0:38.0 | So let us do one last question and answer episode for 2024. |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome to AmeriC Answers. |
| 0:45.9 | AmeriCast. |
| 0:46.6 | AmeriCast from BBC News. |
| 0:48.8 | God spared my life for a reason. |
| 0:52.2 | Only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars. |
| 0:56.0 | A star is born, Elon. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm not just Maga. I'm dark Gothic Maga. |
| 1:02.0 | This is what happens when the machine comes after you. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm terrified for this country and I'm so hurt that America let this happen. |
| 1:09.0 | I think that we just witnessed the greatest political comeback |
| 1:12.1 | in the history of the United States of America. |
| 1:25.5 | Hello, it's Justin at home in South London. And it is Mariana, aka Misinformation, in the |
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