BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Bracelets for Bullets
More or Less: Behind the Stats
BBC
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
BONUS PODCAST: For the rest of August, in addition to More or Less you’ll get a brand new podcast, Economics with Subtitles. It’s your everyday guide to economics and why you should care. In this show, Ayeisha and Steve explore government debt. Why did an anonymous mother send her bracelet to the government to be turned into a bullet? How are you lending the government money without even realising? And when should you be worried about how much debt the government is in?
Producers: Simon Maybin & Phoebe Keane Presenters: Ayeisha Thomas-Smith & Steve Bugeja
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:04.6 | My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:08.4 | As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable |
| 0:14.3 | experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC |
| 0:20.4 | makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars, |
| 0:24.6 | poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples. |
| 0:29.7 | If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.0 | Are you feeling lucky? Well, you should be, because this is a bonus podcast that has magically appeared in the more or less podcast feed. |
| 0:44.0 | He's Steve Bougaea and I'm Aisha Thomas Smith and throughout August you'll get our |
| 0:48.3 | podcast in addition to more or less. It's called Economics with Subtitals and it's for people who maybe want to know a bit more about economics but have been put off in the past. |
| 0:57.0 | We hope you like it. |
| 1:02.0 | Hello and welcome to economics with subtitles. Your everyday guide to economics and why you should care. |
| 1:10.0 | She's Aisha Thomas Smith and I present podcasts about economics. He's Steve Boog, Boogajar? |
| 1:18.0 | Buggier, Buggier. You know how to say it? It's Bougier. Steve Bougier. I'm a stand-up comedian with a degree in economics. |
| 1:25.4 | We're here to hold your hand as you tread tentatively into the tangled forest of economics. |
| 1:30.4 | With us at your side, you'll see the wood, you'll see the trees and you'll see the point of all this economics business. |
| 1:36.0 | This week our government is in debt. |
| 1:39.0 | But who too? And how much? And how worried should we be? |
| 1:42.0 | We will answer all these questions and more. |
| 1:49.6 | We're starting with a story about a letter from an Essex mom, |
| 1:53.4 | I was briefly unchanged from my studio shackles |
| 1:55.9 | to find out all about it. |
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