The Future of Democracy
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
More than two billion people go to the polls next year in elections across the world. So, with that in mind, Adam catches up with political scientist Ben Ansell. Professor Ben Ansell delivered this year’s BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures, following in the footsteps of Robert Oppenheimer, Hilary Mantel and Stephen Hawking. They’re called: Our Democratic Future and in this episode, Adam and Ben discuss how we can make politics work for all of us in the 21st century. Listen to all the Reith Lectures here on https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9 You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Today’s Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Gray with Gemma Roper. The technical producer was Matt Dean. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, you're joining me in the middle of the day when I'm not going to the office, |
| 0:09.6 | because it's the Christmas holidays, and instead I'm having a long rambling wintry walk |
| 0:14.8 | currently alongside the canal but you'll be able to hear some ducks or the gentle |
| 0:19.4 | put putt putt of a narrow boat going past. Anyway, we wanted to recreate that feeling of going for a long |
| 0:27.0 | rambling walk and having a long rambling conversation with your pal while you do it, and we're going to do that in this episode with with Professor, oh there's some ducks. |
| 0:35.0 | Professor, oh there's some ducks, Professor Ben Ansel, who is Professor of Comparative Democratic |
| 0:40.9 | Institutions at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. |
| 0:45.6 | You might have heard him earlier in the year because he delivered the wreath lecturers for |
| 0:48.7 | the BBC this year and the first one of those was on the future of democracy so that was the main subject of our long |
| 0:56.3 | rambling wintry conversation and just to be fully transparent we recorded it in the newscast studio so we're going for the the long |
| 1:04.2 | walk vibe rather than actually having a long walk which is good because it's actually |
| 1:09.1 | really windy on this one. Newscast. New Newscast from the BBC |
| 1:13.0 | Why can't people buy a house look at their wages |
| 1:16.0 | Do you have any questions on things that are not related to math |
| 1:18.0 | People who say that we were partying |
| 1:20.0 | simply do not know what they are talking about |
| 1:22.0 | The era of global warming has ended simply do not know what they are talking about. |
| 1:22.6 | The era of global warming has ended, |
| 1:25.1 | the era of global boiling has arrived. |
| 1:27.6 | It's the first time ever, I've been able to say, |
| 1:30.4 | well done, Kia. |
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