How Saudi is my Uber?
Beyond Today
BBC
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Big tech firms and Saudi royalty are among the world’s richest people. When a young Saudi prince took power in Riyadh he quickly made friends in Silicon Valley. But then the murder of a US-based journalist threatened to derail his masterplan. We discuss the future of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and our connection to him through Saudi investments with Dharshini David, economist and BBC presenter and Amira Fathalla from BBC Monitoring.
Producers: Philly Beaumont and Georgia Coan Editor John Shields
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:06.2 | Hello, I'm Tina Dehealey. |
| 0:07.8 | This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:10.9 | Each day we ask one big question about one big story. |
| 0:14.0 | Today we ask one big story. |
| 0:17.0 | Today we're asking |
| 0:22.0 | how Saudi is my Uber. |
| 0:25.0 | Now think of the richest people in the world. |
| 0:30.0 | Now think of the richest people in the world. Who are you imagining? A tech |
| 0:35.8 | company may be or maybe a royal. Well this is a story about both, a young |
| 0:41.0 | Saudi prince who makes friends in Silicon Valley, but then nearly loses them after a |
| 0:46.9 | murder almost derails his master plan. |
| 0:50.9 | This week the future of crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and our connection to |
| 0:55.8 | him is becoming clearer. |
| 0:58.8 | And Vassetwa, how are you? |
| 1:00.5 | Yeah, good. |
| 1:01.4 | I'm going to like catch my breath. I'm good. |
| 1:04.0 | Amira Fertala works for BBC monitoring. |
| 1:07.0 | Here we is Mohammed bin Salman. |
| 1:10.0 | So Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is a young relatively new figure on the scene. |
| 1:19.0 | In a very short space of time he's managed to burst onto the media, social media space and onto TV |
| 1:26.7 | screens around the world and he is undoubtedly one of the most if not the most influential figure in in Saudi politics right now |
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