30 August 2024
Episode 3409
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Kamala Harris and Tim Walz sit down for their first joint TV interview while Donald Trump reposts lewd comments. Then: we discuss the state of the free press in Hong Kong as editors face sedition charges. Plus: we examine Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II’s unlikely relationship.
30 August 2024
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Washington correspondent Simon Marks discusses Kamala Harris’s first interview since becoming the Democratic presidential candidate, alongside her running mate, Minnesota governor Tim Walz. Did she play it too safe by staying vague on policy? And what will it take to convert moderate Republicans to vote blue?
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Journalist and former Vatican correspondent Juliet Linley talks about a new exhibition at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. The exhibit celebrates the friendship between the late president and Pope John Paul II that arose from their shared desire to end communism.
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