Global News Podcast x Global Story x Americast
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The Global News Podcast, Global Story and Americast join forces to answer your questions about the US presidential election. We look at what the result could mean for the Middle East, Ukraine and climate change.
HOSTS:
* Sumi Somaskanda, BBC Chief Presenter * Anthony Zurcher, North America Correspondent * Oliver Conway, Presenter of the Global News Podcast and The Newsroom
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Americast is part of the BBC News Podcasts family of podcasts. The team that makes Americast also makes lots of other podcasts, including The Global Story, The Today Podcast, and of course Newscast and Ukrainecast. If you enjoy Americast (and if you're reading this then you hopefully do), then we think that you will enjoy some of our other pods too. See links below.
The Global Story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/w13xtvsd The Today Podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0gg4k6r Newscast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/p05299nl Ukrainecast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0bqztzm
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, AmerCasters, we've got something special for you today. |
| 0:08.0 | And that is that we've got questions coming in from around the world to the BBC from our AmeriCast listeners and we're going to answer them with the help of |
| 0:16.3 | our sister podcast Global News Story and The Global Story. |
| 0:21.0 | So listen up. With the U.S. presidential election fast approaching the Global News Podcast, Global Story and |
| 0:35.4 | Americas have joined forces to answer your questions about what the result will mean for America |
| 0:40.6 | and the rest of the world. |
| 0:42.0 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway from the Global News Podcast. |
| 0:45.0 | This is Sumisomaskanda. |
| 0:47.0 | I present the Global Story Podcast. |
| 0:49.0 | And it's Anthony Zerker. |
| 0:50.0 | I help present AmeriCast. |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah, thanks both of you for joining us from the US. |
| 0:55.0 | I was a reporter many years ago in Washington way back in the era of George W Bush, |
| 1:01.0 | but American politics has changed a lot since then, so you guys are going to be doing most of the work. |
| 1:06.5 | And we'll start off with a question about work, or at least school work, from Sam Oppenheim, a teacher in New York. |
| 1:13.8 | I'm wondering, since I teach students in high school who are going to college, |
| 1:18.2 | how did Miss Harris and Mr. Trump do in high school? |
| 1:22.3 | How did they do in college? Did they go to grad school? How did they pay |
| 1:26.3 | for college and grad school? Well, lots of questions there, but interesting ones because a college |
| 1:32.4 | education is part of defining who these two candidates are. |
| 1:36.0 | Both transferred from their original college to a new one while they were studying. |
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