Central Park Calling
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Is being disagreeable a good thing? Is how we identify becoming more complex? And what is the one thing conservative Republicans are wishing President Trump would do next? They are all topics that were under discussion at this year’s OZY Fest – a summer festival of ideas, music, comedy and food held in New York’s Central Park. This is the best of the two day fest with Lizzie O’Leary.
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| 0:00.0 | It's just another summer day in New York Central Park. |
| 0:07.0 | All right, all right, happy Saturday. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to Ozzy Fest. |
| 0:12.0 | Who's excited about Ozzy Fest today? |
| 0:15.0 | Anybody? |
| 0:16.0 | This is the BBC World Service, and I'm Lizzy O'Leary, |
| 0:19.0 | and we're here in the middle of New York Central Park, |
| 0:21.0 | after 18 months of Bluster and belligerence dominating the global |
| 0:25.0 | coverage of the U.S. we wanted to discover a more thoughtful America. A place where ideas can |
| 0:30.3 | be shared, debated, maybe even agreed upon. |
| 0:33.6 | So we're here at Ozzy Fest, which is a festival of food, thought, and music now in its |
| 0:38.0 | third year. |
| 0:39.0 | Coming up in the next hour, we'll hear from politicians, musicians, and thought leaders. |
| 0:42.8 | This is Central Park calling. |
| 0:44.8 | Hello. My name is Lizzi and we're with the BBC. We're just doing interviews with people who are here, basically about what they're up to. |
| 0:58.0 | Do you want to tell me your name and what you're doing here? |
| 1:00.0 | Sure, I'm Charlie and I'm just kind of here to, I don't know, what do you think, eat, and listen to all the people that have the same |
| 1:07.4 | to say and the music and the food as well. |
| 1:09.7 | I'm the name Stephanie. |
| 1:11.5 | My friend Jackie got me tickets to her office. So I think the main reason I wanted to come today was I was really like fascinated with the authors that were here. |
| 1:19.0 | My name's Lizzie. We are this is Alex with the BBC. What's your name? |
| 1:23.0 | Colsum. |
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