5. What Will Happen to the EU (when Britain leaves)?
Release Date: 09/30/2019
6. John's Return to The Amazon
John Simpson's World Podcast
Seven days from even the tiniest village, John gets shipwrecked, circled by a hungry jaguar, harpoons monkeys for dinner, dices with piranhas, sips hallucinogenic drugs from a cauldron and encounters a six foot goldfish wearing a hat and sunglasses (unsurprisingly, as a direct result of imbibing what was in the cauldron). John’s stories of the Amazon are legendary and he’s managed to persuade the BBC, who are apparently reluctant to let him die on their watch, to let him return to the Amazon soon. Yikes
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5. What Will Happen to the EU (when Britain leaves)?
John Simpson's World Podcast
Assuming Britain makes the leap what's next for the UK & for Europe? Will the US help out? Will the Chinese take an interest? And WTF is happening in France? With over 53 years as a foreign reporter (including time as ‘the BBC Common Market Correspondent’) John Simpson has an idea about what we might be facing. On this unmissable episode John and producer Lisa Francesca Nand debate the reasons behind the leave vote & delve into the possibilities that might befall both the EU and Britain if/when we leave
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4. What’s Really Happening in Russia?
John Simpson's World Podcast
Once again John nail’s it with his experienced view on what is happening in the world, this time in Russia. Is Russia the superpower they want us to believe they are? Why did the US play such a foolish game after the collapse of communism? Do we need to be worried about Putin and indeed his increasingly cosy relationship with China? What IS it with those semi-naked horse photos? Should Boris Johnson pose semi-naked on a horse? And crucially, could John Simpson have Vladimir Putin in a fight?
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3. What’s Really Happening in the US?
John Simpson's World Podcast
If you’ve found yourself wondering WTF is going on in the USA – which we’re pretty sure the whole world has – this episode is for you. With over 53 years of political reporting John gives us his unique take on American politics and the reason behind the success of Trump. Along with producer Lisa Francesca Nand, John talks news reporting, perceived BBC bias, Brexit, immigrants, guns, the electoral college system, Facebook fiddling and why we should Make America Cool Again. You heard it here first.
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2. 18 Months to Save the Human Race?
John Simpson's World Podcast
Have we reached a crisis point in the race to save the planet from doom? And do we only have, as Prince Charles said, 18 months to save the human race? Whilst we’ve all been busy talking about Brexit, Trump and China have we let it get too late to do something about the disastrous decline of the planet? On this episode John Simpson and his producer Lisa Francesca Nand talk big government initiatives, debauched heatwaves and question whether we really do have 18 months to save us all from disaster.
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1. Why Are We Here...? Introducing John Simpson's World Podcast
John Simpson's World Podcast
Why is John Simpson is doing a podcast? Why he is not doing it with the BBC? On this episode John (and producer Lisa Francesca Nand) introduce the podcast, what topics we're going to cover in Season 1, some of the amazing guests we have lined up for Season 2, namedrop everyone John's met from Castro to Saddam Hussein and have the pleasure of hearing John say naughty words he can't usually get away with (don't listen with small children in ear shot). Welcome to John Simpson's World! You're going to love it.
info_outlineAssuming Britain makes the leap… what's next for the UK and for Europe? Will the US help us out? Will the Chinese take an interest? And WTF is happening in France…? With over 53 years as a foreign reporter (including many spent as ‘the BBC Common Market Correspondent’) John Simpson has an idea or two about what we might be facing. On this unmissable episode John and producer Lisa Francesca Nand debate the reasons behind the vote to leave and delve into the possibilities that might befall both the EU and Britain if/when we leave our biggest neighbouring trading block.
On this episode we cover
Does John mind being called veteran
Veteran is better than ‘venerable’
The three Vs of getting old
The UK being in a bit of a civil war state since the referendum
Like Cromwell fighting Charles I
John being the ‘BBC Common Market Correspondent’ in the 70s
General de Gaulle blocking Britain from joining
Being involved from the start would have been a better fit
Lisa having enjoyed being part of Europe
John hating the idea of Visas in Europe
Being a Brit first, a European second
Focusing on advantages and disadvantages of leaving
But this means we have ignored the rest of Europe
John’s experience as a correspondent in Brussels
How we always stood on the edges of the EU
The UK hankering after a lost world position
We saw in the referendum how much support there was leaving
John being ambivalent about leaving
But caring about our standards of living falling
Very few people researched trade agreements, laws and their benefits
‘The metropolitan elite’
People that come to London are not all posh
John being an ex-Cambridge elite
How John thinks everything Lisa says is true (yay!)
We have a representative democracy
In 2016 we allowed people to take the decisions for themselves
People were lied to
The divisions of our society
The result being as a result of austerity and government cuts
Will life get better for the people who felt marginalised?
The people that in favour agree life is going to be rougher
What’s next for France?
The French being the mirror image opposite of us
14.33 – 14.48 edit stop for water break!
The French revolution sanctifying violence
French protests being entirely different to British
France is not collapsing
Workers rights in France being very strong
John missing Paris but Paris being stuck in the 50s in many ways
Will the EU weaken after we leave?
John thinking it was a mistake pushing for an ever closer union
The UK were the strong person of Europe
We had a seat at the table
Travellers in the Third Reich and how we slept walk into Nazi Germany
Are we too sleepwalking into something that is more sinister?
John reporting on the National Front in France
What’s really next for Europe
A quite uncomfortable closer relationship to the US to survive
The Chinese won’t take any great interest in us
Britain will drift for quite a long time