Change in America

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

How has the US changed since 2008? As the world chews its nails, waiting to see how the US election story ends, Lizzie O’Leary tries to do something a little different: looking at data to figure out how America is different now, in November 2016, from the country which elected its first black president eight years ago. Lizzie – from the US radio show Marketplace – is joined in New York City by the political analyst Amy Holmes, demographer Bill Frey and the journalist Meghan McArdle. She’s also armed with audiographs, illustrating some surprising data in sound.

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0:00.0	When you look back over the last eight years, well a lot has happened.
0:10.0	You do not know whether this swine flu virus or some other influenza virus will lead to the next pandemic.
0:15.1	It's now all but inevitable.
0:17.1	General Motors is expected to officially file for bankruptcy tomorrow morning.
0:21.1	Today, tens of millions of Americans will be a whole lot healthier from this moment on. We want to freedom. The majority of those who died today were children.
0:38.0	Beautiful little kids between the ages of five and ten years old.
0:42.0	On the run, admitted NSA leaker, Edward Snowden is finding for freedom, flying from country
0:47.0	to country.
0:48.0	With this latest success, the self-styled Islamic State now controls 50% of the
0:55.8	chaos erupting on the streets of Missouri the grand jury finding no probable
1:00.2	cause to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the death of an unarmed teenager.
1:04.0	Can you tell these guys be quiet don't curse pull your pants up.
1:08.0	Two weeks ago in Paris I said before the world that we needed a strong global agreement.
1:15.0	I am officially running for President of the United States
1:20.0	and we are going to make our country great again.
1:28.7	As we, the American people,
1:30.3	finally stagger exhaustedly into the closing days of our somewhat crazy
1:34.4	presidential election, we want to know what's really happened in America under
1:39.1	President Obama. This isn't a show about Obama's record exactly.
1:43.0	We're going to look at the facts on the ground, data, and something called audiographs.
1:47.0	That's a BBC illustration of facts using sound.
1:50.0	We're going to find out how America in November 2016 is different from the country
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