Too Hot To Think
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today: On a flight to Las Vegas, Rajini Vaidynathan strikes up conversation with what turn out to be mainly Trump supporters and concludes that, wherever you are in the US, it's difficult to get agreement across the aisle. How a trip to Northern Ireland gave Nick Thorpe some new vocabulary to describe politics back home, in Hungary. In the Ugandan capital, Kampala, Tom Shakespeare discovers why a brand new fleet of buses is simply parked up and failing to provide a service. And we indulge in some food and drink - in Georgia with Rob Crossan, involving singing, toasts, hugs, more toasts, more singing - you get the picture; and in southern California, where Sarah Wheeler walks through the heat slowly, in search of ice cold refreshment - anything to cool the brain.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading from our own correspondent. This is the edition broadcast on Thursday, the 3rd of November. |
| 0:06.0 | I won't tell you what's in it because he has someone else to do that. Kate A. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello. Today we hear how a trip to Northern Ireland gave our correspondence some new vocabulary |
| 0:16.8 | to describe politics back home in Hungary. |
| 0:20.7 | In the Ugandan capital Kampala, they have a brand new fleet of buses which are going nowhere fast. |
| 0:27.0 | In Georgia we indulge in food and drink which involves singing, toast, |
| 0:32.5 | toast, |
| 0:33.0 | singing, you get the picture. |
| 0:36.5 | And as the first frosts are with us, |
| 0:39.0 | let's head for California, |
| 0:40.5 | where we search for anything which might cool a brain frazzled by heat. |
| 0:46.2 | Just five days to go until the election to choose the most powerful Democratic leader in the |
| 0:50.6 | world and at least according to the polls the race is as close as ever |
| 0:54.8 | one or two opinion polls have even shown Donald Trump to have overtaken Hillary |
| 0:59.8 | Clinton her supporters are still adamant she'll emerge victorious. |
| 1:04.4 | What's clear though is that this has been the most divisive presidential race in decades, at |
| 1:10.1 | ground level and at 30,000 feet as Regina |
| 1:13.8 | Vigenathan found on a flight to Las Vegas. |
| 1:17.4 | I first noticed Lois when she smiled at me from across the aisle. |
| 1:21.6 | When I told her I was on my way to cover the final |
| 1:23.9 | presidential debate, she leant over to talk. Make sure you're fair to them all, she |
| 1:29.0 | said. Before informing me, she was voting for Donald Trump. Many of Mr Trump's supporters have a deep mistrust |
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