Around the World in 73 Elections
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BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at some of the elections that are taking place around the globe in 2024!
6 months after they discussed the future of democracy in 2024, Adam reunites with political scientist Ben Ansell for an update on the elections taking place this year. They discuss the US election; why the Democrats chose to make their campaign all about democracy, and how unprecedented events have changed the US political landscape.
They also chat about what we can learn from election results in the UK, France and India. And which elections should we focus on later in the year?
If you want to listen back to Adam and Ben’s original discussion from December 2023, you can find it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0h1gkny
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Today’s Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Miranda Slade with Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Phillip Bull. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, this weekend, Laura and Patty are away. |
| 0:08.5 | So I'm going on a two-day bender. Let me just explain. So we decided that we should do, we should take this opportunity to just do two episodes where we chat to one person in depth in each one about the area of expertise and hopefully it's an area that we're interested in. |
| 0:28.0 | Unfortunately through Sheer Fluke we've booked two guests who are both called Ben. |
| 0:35.5 | So we're going to call this, the Newscast Weekend Bender. |
| 0:40.5 | And because a newscast Bender wouldn't be like anyone else is, |
| 0:44.0 | the second helping is going to be an interview with Lord Ben Houchin, |
| 0:48.0 | the elected mayor of the Tease Valley, |
| 0:50.0 | and the first half of it is going to be with Professor Ben Ansel, Professor of |
| 0:55.4 | Comparative Democracy at Oxford University. So yeah, my kind of bender. Let it commence |
| 1:00.4 | newscast. Newsast from the BBC. |
| 1:04.0 | The exit poll is predicting a labor landslide. |
| 1:07.0 | We did it! |
| 1:08.0 | And before you know it, you have a bright future behind you. |
| 1:11.0 | I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. |
| 1:13.6 | Joe, you did such a great job, you answered every question. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. |
| 1:20.9 | Blimey. Hello, one of my favorite episodes of newscasts that we recorded |
| 1:25.0 | last year was a chat with Professor Ben Ansel from Oxford University. He's an expert in |
| 1:31.0 | democratic systems around the world and he just done the BBC Wreath lectures |
| 1:36.0 | all about the state of democracy all around the planet. |
| 1:40.3 | And we had a really long chat just previewing all the many many many many many many |
| 1:45.6 | many many many many elections happening around the world in 2024 so we thought well |
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