Rural Revolt
Radical with Amol Rajan
BBC
4.5 • 917 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Ahead of a planned protest by farmers who are angry about the Budget, Amol and Nick talk to farmer and best-selling author James Rebanks.
Plus, as Donald Trump's top team takes shape and he hires Elon Musk to jointly lead a new “Department of Government Efficiency”, they discuss what his appointments tell us about his approach to China and the war in Ukraine.
The Today Podcast is hosted by Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson who are both presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Amol was the BBC’s media editor for six years and is the former editor of the Independent, he’s also the current presenter of University Challenge. Nick has presented the Today programme since 2015, he was the BBC’s political editor for ten years before that and also previously worked as ITV’s political editor.
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The senior producer is Lewis Vickers, the producer is Nadia Gyane, research and digital production from Joe Wilkinson. The editor is Louisa Lewis. The executive producer is Owenna Griffiths. Technical production from Daniel Ehrlich.
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| 0:21.6 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:25.4 | So Elon Musk is a new job. |
| 0:27.1 | He is going to run something called the Doge. |
| 0:30.8 | And there's a joke in there. |
| 0:31.7 | The Department of Government Efficiency, he went all in backing Donald Trump for president. |
| 0:36.7 | And not for the first time in Mr Musk's career. |
| 0:39.3 | It has paid off. |
| 0:40.4 | His man won, and now Donald Trump has said to him, Elon, you're hired. |
| 0:44.7 | Yeah, Musk, not in the cabinet, but got real power. |
| 0:48.7 | And yet his companies, X, less so, but certainly SpaceX and certainly Tesla, are massively dependent on government, |
| 0:58.3 | either for regulations or tariffs or contracts. |
| 1:01.3 | So at one at the same time, to be king of deregulation and also have huge business interests, |
| 1:08.2 | one of the biggest billionaires on the planet, is really eye-watering. |
| 1:12.9 | And we're going to do a second half of the podcast today on a different group of people, not |
| 1:17.4 | American billionaires, but people in this country who are having a tough time, have done for |
| 1:22.7 | recent decades, and who are extremely angry about a specific set of changes in the budget announced |
| 1:29.6 | by Rachel Reeves. And I'm talking about farmers. You could argue that though the today program |
| 1:33.6 | is after farming today, it's hard sometimes for farmers in this country to get a hearing because |
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