Money, Politics, and Power
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Is our democracy for sale? Peter Geoghegan joins the team to talk dirty money in politics, and how it it's utilised in a dark digital world to potentially influence elections. Lynsey Bews and Philip Sim ask him what we can do about it, how tech giants play a role, and how we can use the upcoming US election to learn lessons.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.6 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:16.1 | that gives you an inside look at the biggest stories coming out of Holyrood and Westminster. It is 18 |
| 0:22.7 | minutes past 10 on Thursday the 17th of September. I'm Lindsay Views, a journalist based |
| 0:28.3 | at the Scottish Parliament and today I'm joined by... |
| 0:31.3 | I'm Phil Simm, I'm a reporter based in a slightly different and physically distant part of |
| 0:35.8 | the Scottish Parliament. And we also have Peter Gagan with us. Peter, welcome along. |
| 0:41.8 | Thanks very much. I have having me, Lindsay. |
| 0:43.3 | Thanks for being here. You've been on Political before, haven't you? |
| 0:45.7 | I am. I'm not just my second appearance. Does that make me a veteran yet? |
| 0:49.0 | A little regular. |
| 0:50.3 | Yeah, I would say a recurring cast member. |
| 0:54.5 | Fingers crossed, then. |
| 0:55.6 | Maybe it says keep writing away, scribbling away, |
| 0:58.1 | and maybe someday I too will become a veteran slash regular. |
| 1:01.7 | How have you been since we last saw you? |
| 1:03.9 | I've been good. |
| 1:05.2 | I'm speaking to you remarkably from the BBC studios in Pacific Key. |
| 1:09.1 | It's the first time I've been in the studio in many, many months. |
| 1:12.0 | Peter, just to tell our listeners a little bit about you. You are an Irish journalist and broadcaster. |
| 1:17.4 | Peter is also Investigations editor at the website Open Democracy. And it's just published a book called Democracy for sale. |
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