This Is Not A Drill – the new name for Doomsday Watch

This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler

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News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to This Is Not A Drill, the brand new weekly show about geopolitical threats, where they come from and how to fight them. We’re building on the legacy of Doomsday Watch to look even more widely about the dangers, corruption, conflicts, disinformation, rivalries and ruthless realpolitik that are making our world ever-more dangerous. And we’ve got a brand-new host: Gavin Esler, former BBC News presenter, Washington correspondent and host of Newsnight. Gavin will be talking to highly experienced diplomats, academics and journalists to guide you through the world’s worsening geopolitics nightmare. New episodes start weekly from Weds 14 Nov 2023 – and two days early for Patreon supporters. Follow now on your favourite app. This Is Not A Drill is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, Gavin Esler here with news about a brand new weekly podcast about Global Affairs
0:06.6	launching this week right here on this channel.
0:10.0	It's called This Is Not a Drill.
0:13.0	We are enormously grateful to all Doomsday Watch listeners
0:15.8	who helped spread the word about the podcast
0:17.8	and make it such a success.
0:19.8	Now we're picking up the Doomsday watch mantle to go further into the complex
0:24.3	geopolitics and information wars that have made the world such a dangerous place
0:28.8	from Gaza to Ukraine to Trump's attempts to get back into the White House.
0:34.0	For years I've interviewed world leaders from Bill Clinton and Jacques Chirac to Angela Merkel
0:38.6	and Shimon Peres, uncovering the stories that shape our world.
0:42.8	On this is not a drill, I'll be talking to the experts on the spot reporters and commentators
0:48.8	to explain our new age of chaos.
0:51.4	We'll be looking at the conflicts, politics, corruption, power struggles,
0:54.9	tech shifts and climate upheavals that are driving the world to the brink.
0:59.7	As a follower, you'll get new episodes of This Is Not a Drill every Wednesday morning and if you're one of our
1:08.2	Patreon backers you'll get every episode early.
1:11.7	So join me Gavin Esler to get the full picture of our
1:14.8	fragmented and chaotic world in our new weekly podcast. This is not a drill.

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