LGBT Rights Special: Padam Vice President
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Rainbow flags symbolising LGBT freedoms are being flown in many parts of the world this Pride month, but in some parts of America they are being lowered due to state bans. Why have these kinds of issues become so political?
Bobby Berk, star of hit makeover show Queer Eye, joins the Americast team, along with a Republican activist, to tell us how LGBT people are feeling across the US political divide.
HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Sarah Smith, North America editor • Marianna Spring, disinformation and social media correspondent • Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondent
GUESTS: • Bobby Berk, ‘Queer Eye’ host • Jerri Ann Henry, Republican LGBT rights activist
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This episode was made by Daniel Wittenberg, with Alix Pickles, Natasha Fernandes and Miranda Slade. The technical producer was Mike Regaard and the sound designer was David Crackles. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | OK, Sarah, Mariana, Anthony, I have here, |
| 0:08.0 | don't know if you can hear them, |
| 0:09.8 | some secret documents which I have to show you |
| 0:12.7 | and you're thinking her, her, her, wait a minute, aren't they classified? |
| 0:15.9 | And I'm saying no, because I'm declassifying them now |
| 0:19.0 | with my mental mind, I'm looking at them |
| 0:21.3 | and the very process of me looking at them |
| 0:23.2 | is declassifying them, Sarah. |
| 0:25.1 | Well, is it though Justin, maybe you would have had the party declassified them |
| 0:28.8 | when you were North America editor, but you're not now, |
| 0:31.0 | and so, you know, there are certain things |
| 0:33.1 | you're not able to do anymore. |
| 0:34.4 | OK, luckily it is just the running order for this week's... |
| 0:37.3 | Which Justin insists on having printed out. |
| 0:39.7 | Oh! |
| 0:40.5 | He can read it, which means he can use it as a pro. |
| 0:42.6 | I thought we were going to leave those things to one side, Mariana. |
| 0:45.5 | I actually now also get mine printed. |
| 0:47.2 | Yeah, well, I wasn't even going to say that, |
| 0:49.2 | but yeah, let's have a truce on the printing thing. |
| 0:51.6 | But yeah, so here we go, we've got all of the things that it says here in front of me, |
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