Unconventional Convention

Americast

BBC

Politics, Government, News

4.3 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Anthony and Jon discuss the unconventional Democratic National Convention with the Reverend Leah Daughtry, CEO of the DNC in 2008 and 2016. And as the US Postal Service boss suspends new policies that were decried as an attempt to sabotage the election, we try to get to the bottom of what is actually going on.

Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producer: Harriet Noble Assistant Editor: Emma Close Editor: Dino Sofos

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.8	Hello and welcome to America.
0:07.0	We've been puffing away blowing up balloons,
0:09.4	cutting millions of pieces of red and white and blue,
0:12.3	confetti to rain down on you because it's the convention week.
0:16.2	Except it's not.
0:17.8	This week, it's the unconventional conventions.
0:22.6	America.
0:23.4	America.
0:24.3	From BBC News.
0:25.6	I am your president of law and order.
0:28.4	The US has now surpassed four million cases of coronavirus.
0:32.2	The country is crying out for leadership.
0:34.4	Person, woman, man, camera TV.
0:37.4	Four kids who just as bright and just as tall as white kids.
0:40.4	Where are you from?
0:41.4	BBC.
0:42.2	Here's another beauty.
0:47.9	Hello, it's Johnny Washington.
0:49.9	And it's Anthony also in Washington.
0:52.1	We're about 50 feet apart maybe.
0:54.8	Whereas in different studios in the Washington Bureau,
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