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🗓️ 15 November 2021
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0:00.0 | Today's podcast is sponsored by Google. Parents want their children to be more safe and |
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0:23.3 | In partnership with Parent Zone, B-Internet Legends has reached over 70% of UK primary schools |
0:29.0 | with its free toolkits and school assemblies. |
0:31.5 | To find out more and see how Google's resources can help your school search be Internet Legends. |
0:43.8 | Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics, life and culture. |
0:52.6 | My name is Freddie Gray. I'm the deputy editor of The Spectator. I am delighted to be |
0:58.1 | joined by Ian Dale, who is an award-winning broadcaster and presenter of the Evening Show on LBC. |
1:04.8 | And he's also the editor of a magnificent new book called The President' 250 years of American political leadership. |
1:13.6 | Ian, this book, I think, is a very nice joining book to an earlier book you edited called |
1:17.8 | Prime Ministers. I wondered if you could take us through the sort of process of when did you |
1:24.4 | decide to do the President's book, obviously off the back of the Prime Minister's book. |
1:28.7 | I had the idea of doing the Presidents' as a follow-up some time ago, |
1:32.2 | but the publishers weren't very keen. |
1:34.8 | I thought, well, that's a shame, |
1:35.7 | because it just seemed to be an obvious thing to do. |
1:37.9 | They didn't think it would be commercial enough. |
1:40.1 | And then at the end of the Trump presidency |
1:42.0 | and then the presidential election, they decided that there was a lot of interest in American politics after all. |
1:49.6 | So they gave the green light. |
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