Barbie's Hot Right Now
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Could global warming make some states uninhabitable? With parts of the US sweltering in record-breaking heatwaves, the Americast team wonders whether cities like Phoenix in Arizona can continue to survive by the end of the century.
Meanwhile, Sarah enjoys cooler temperatures in Colorado and catches up with the UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly at the Aspen Security Forum.
And Hollywood strikes have held up the Barbie film's press tour, but could politicians learn a thing or two from its internet-breaking marketing campaign?
HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Sarah Smith, North America editor • Marianna Spring, disinformation and social media correspondent • Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondent
GUEST: • James Cleverly, UK Foreign Secretary
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This episode was made by Daniel Wittenberg, with Rufus Gray, Natasha Fernandes and Catherine Fusillo. The technical producer was Dafydd Evans and the sound designer was David Crackles. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, everyone, we're back together. |
| 0:07.4 | Well, some of you have been away for ages. |
| 0:09.0 | Some of us did do a bit of an emergency addition last week, |
| 0:12.8 | but whatever, welcome everyone. |
| 0:14.3 | Yes, it's been a couple of weeks as we took a little break |
| 0:17.4 | for the 4th of July holiday. |
| 0:19.4 | We've missed some stories in America, no huge news. |
| 0:23.2 | It looks like Donald Trump's going to be indicted again, |
| 0:26.3 | possibly twice in the next month. |
| 0:28.6 | We'll be talking about that later. |
| 0:30.9 | There's been a heat wave across the whole of the United States. |
| 0:33.5 | We're certainly going to discuss that. |
| 0:35.0 | And one of the bigger stories actually |
| 0:37.0 | has been the strike in Hollywood that's |
| 0:39.3 | been joined by the actors. |
| 0:40.9 | And that has grown to a halt. |
| 0:43.2 | The big promotional premier tours that |
| 0:46.0 | were going on for the hottest films of the summer. |
| 0:48.2 | That's, of course, Openheimer and Barbie. |
| 0:51.1 | Hi, Barbie. |
| 0:52.1 | Hi, Barbie. |
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