Understand: The US election
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Caucuses, primaries and Super Tuesday. Justin Webb, former BBC US correspondent, unpicks some of the terminology associated with the US election.
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| 0:00.0 | World of Secrets, Season 2, investigates allegations surrounding one of the most powerful religious figures of the 21st century, TB Joshua. |
| 0:10.0 | Search for World of Secrets wherever you get your BBC Podcasts. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello and welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service, |
| 0:19.0 | which was recorded on Wednesday the 24th of January 2024. I'm Justin Webb and this is |
| 0:24.3 | Understand the US election. |
| 0:32.3 | My guests and I will bring you a user's guide to how the next American |
| 0:36.3 | president will be chosen, from how the candidates are selected to what happens on |
| 0:40.6 | the campaign trail on election night and the rules for the |
| 0:44.4 | inauguration as well and we'll have a few lessons from history along the way. |
| 0:48.4 | I'm Justin Webb one of the hosts of America's starSounds Podcast on all things American. |
| 0:55.0 | I lived in the US for the best part of a decade. |
| 0:57.8 | I was the BBC's first North America editor. |
| 1:00.6 | I have a child born there too a US citizen by birth which gives me an added |
| 1:06.0 | connection to the place. Here to help me are my fabulous America co-hosts |
| 1:11.9 | the current BBC North America editor Sarah |
| 1:14.1 | Smith and the North America correspondent Anthony Zircher. Hello. |
| 1:17.3 | Hi y'all. Hello Justin, it's great to be here. We also have an excellent selection |
| 1:21.3 | of guests. Ned Foley, director of the election law program |
| 1:25.1 | at Ohio State University. |
| 1:26.7 | Yes, good to be with you. |
| 1:27.9 | Mary Francis Berry, who's professor of American Social |
| 1:30.8 | Thought History and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. |
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