Bolder After Boulder?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Two familiar issues are already threatening to cause a major political headache for President Biden’s administration: gun laws and the southern border. We speak to gun control lobbyist Robyn Thomas from the Gifford Law Centre, and Florence Chamberlin, an El Paso based immigration attorney with the Kids in Need of Defense programme.
And Joe Biden holds his first press conference as President, so how did he do? Jon, Emily and Anthony look at how the new President differed tonally from his predecessor, if not in content. And
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Natalie Ktena, Frankie Tobi, Caitlin Hanrahan Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Laura Kunspurge, the BBC's political editor. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm here to tell you about Covid confidential, a brand new podcast. |
| 0:11.2 | She's put together an astonishing first draft of history with regards to why things went |
| 0:15.5 | so wrong. |
| 0:16.5 | It's a year since the UK went into lockdown. |
| 0:18.6 | Stay at home, protect our NHS and save lives. |
| 0:22.8 | And on this special podcast, I've been speaking to people who were in the corridors of power. |
| 0:27.1 | We had those reasonable worst case scenarios and the problem with them was that they were |
| 0:32.0 | coming true. |
| 0:33.0 | Taking you into the rooms where life and death decisions were made. |
| 0:36.2 | I was told I was going to be producing on behalf of all the broadcasters, the first |
| 0:39.6 | National Address Boris Johnson was going to give. |
| 0:41.7 | And uncovering the biggest challenges our leaders faced. |
| 0:44.7 | These are people who spoke to Laura Kunspurge off the record. |
| 0:48.5 | Listen to Covid confidential on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:53.3 | If you were with us on America's last week, you know we went green because it was St Patrick's |
| 0:59.2 | Day and we paid homage to all those American presidents who owe their ancestry to Ireland, |
| 1:05.6 | including Barack Obama. |
| 1:07.5 | Oh, baby, oh, Riley, oh, here in Ohio, there's no one that's Irish, there's Barack Obama. |
| 1:15.7 | Yeah, and that opening sparked an email from none other than Pauline Moore from the Talking |
| 1:22.1 | Dairy Girls podcast. |
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