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The Documentary Podcast

Canada and how it sees Britain

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Neil MacGregor visits different countries to talk to leading political, business and cultural figures to find out how they, as individuals and as members of their broader communities, see Britain. In Canada, Neil hears from French-Canadian film director, Denys Arcand; writer and Booker Prize nominee, Madeleine Thien; and Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chrystia Freeland.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We know the drill where they had phone, sit in front of the mic and the folks, the BBC

0:03.9

which are right on the one.

0:05.1

Okay. Hello.

0:06.7

Hello, is that the BBC?

0:08.1

This is Neil McGregor. Is that Chris O'Phelan.

0:10.3

Hi Neil, it's Chrisja. How are you?

0:12.1

Thank you so much for doing this. It was a fight with my team. I'll have to tell you they said it does nothing for us politically in Canada.

0:21.0

This is very true true I'm afraid. I think you know what we're trying to do.

0:26.0

We're really looking for personal views about how people from five countries,

0:32.4

India, Egypt, Nigeria, Germany and Canada, look at the UK,

0:36.8

particularly at the moment of Brexit.

0:39.5

Well at 20 minutes to five, we can now say that British people have spoken and the answer is we're out.

0:46.0

This is not about the United Kingdom suddenly wanting to be inward looking.

0:50.0

Actually we will continue to be a bold outward looking country forging our own way in the world.

0:56.0

Would some power the gifted Gies to see ourselves as others see us. As others see us.

1:03.6

As others see us.

1:05.7

Five views of Britain from the rest of the world.

1:08.2

Of course I perfectly understand anyone who's annoyed by Brussels Brocracy.

1:13.7

Brexit is a global event.

1:16.0

It is not just about Britain.

1:18.4

Britain looks like a small country that is past its heyday. A world in which we downplay nationalism is a much

1:27.8

safer and prosperous world for all of us. It's that thing of the outsider being able to see the colonial center much more clearly.

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