Bonus: Americast - Former US President Jimmy Carter has died aged 100
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Former US President Jimmy Carter has died aged 100. The 39th U.S. president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate lived longer than any president in history. He celebrated his 100th birthday in October 2024. How did a peanut farmer from the Deep South and Georgia Governor become president? Justin Webb speaks to Jonathan Alter, author of His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life. From brokering peace in the Middle East, to famously promising the American people he would never lie, Carter served as president from 1977 to 1981. It was period beset by economic and diplomatic crises. The Carter Center, which advocates for democracy and human rights around the world, said he died on Sunday afternoon at his home in Plains, Georgia.
This episode was made by Chris Flynn with Joe McFadden. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The series producer is Purvee Pattni. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. Following the death of former US President |
| 0:05.9 | Jimmy Carter, here's an edition of the BBC podcast, AmeriCast, with Justin Webb. |
| 0:12.8 | We just had the news that Jimmy Carter has died. He was 100 years old. He was the 39th President |
| 0:19.0 | of the United States. He was an extraordinary figure in so many ways, President of the United States. |
| 0:21.2 | He was an extraordinary figure in so many ways, |
| 0:24.8 | partly because of the times in which he was president back in the 1970s, |
| 0:30.3 | but partly also because of the extraordinary post-presidential career that he had, |
| 0:36.5 | both a long career and also a career in which he achieved |
| 0:40.0 | a huge amount. I've been talking to Jonathan Alter, who wrote the biography on the man. It's called |
| 0:47.6 | his very best, Jimmy Carter, A Life. Here's our conversation. |
| 1:00.3 | Thank you. a life. Here's our conversation. Jonathan, hello. Hello, Justin. Let's start right back at the beginning. And actually not |
| 1:06.2 | necessarily with the man himself, but with the place. He came from Georgia, and it was a long time ago when |
| 1:12.4 | he was born there. Tell us about the Georgia that he was born into. Well, Jimmy Carter was |
| 1:17.5 | born in Plains, Georgia, which is where he lived until the end of his days. And Plains, Georgia |
| 1:25.2 | is in Sumter County, southwest Georgia. |
| 1:29.6 | And to this day, visiting down there is like going to a different country. |
| 1:36.2 | And at the time of his birth in 1924, it was like being in a different century. |
| 1:43.4 | So not only was it ruled by rigid Jim Crow segregation, |
| 1:50.1 | but Carter, whose family was one of the most prosperous in the whole area, had no running water, |
| 1:56.6 | no mechanized farm equipment, no electricity until he was 11 years old when he got a rudimentary |
| 2:05.5 | plumbing system that his father put in where they were able to take a shower through a bucket |
| 2:10.9 | with holes punched in it. He was barefoot for most of the year except when he went to school |
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