Speaker 1: Hello. I'm Michelle Hussein and for more than twenty years
Speaker 1: I was at the BBC presiding over political debates. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the BBC Prime Ministerial Debate, covering international news, announce
Speaker 1: that the United States has completed its military withdrawal from
Speaker 1: Afghanistan twenty years and reporting on some pretty famous people,
Speaker 1: Ural Highness and Megan Markle. Congratulations to both. Thank you.
Speaker 1: It was thrilling to be in the front row to
Speaker 1: watch history unfold, even if I did have to get
Speaker 1: up at three am most mornings. But all the time
Speaker 1: I was delivering the headlines, I wanted to go further
Speaker 1: than the news of the day. I wanted to talk
Speaker 1: about the ideas behind it, to spend more time with
Speaker 1: the people shaping our world. And that's what I'm doing
Speaker 1: here on this podcast from Bloomberg Weekend. I speak with
Speaker 1: people like, in terms of political spending, I'm going to
Speaker 1: do a lot less in the future, and why is that?
Speaker 1: I think I've done enough? Prime Minister Keir Starmer recognizing
Speaker 1: of Palestinian state was in your manifesto. Do you want
Speaker 1: to be the British Prime Minister who delivers that? I'm
Speaker 1: clear on our manifesto was clear about our position on
Speaker 1: recognition cultural figures like Succession creator Jesse Armstrong. You are
Speaker 1: writing about that world of the super rich again, and
Speaker 1: there's a sorry. Well I wondered why I believe I'm
Speaker 1: doing it beause I'm interested in the power, not the money.
Speaker 1: And Shonda Rhymes, how did you feel about Bridgerton being
Speaker 1: described as woke? I didn't know anybody described it as welke.
Speaker 1: The Telegraph called it pandering to woke casting. Well, that's
Speaker 1: so cute. This will be a place where every weekend
Speaker 1: you can count on one essential conversation to help make
Speaker 1: sense of the world. Personal conversation. All, yeah, exactly. You
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Speaker 1: the first episode will be right here on October seventeenth.
Speaker 1: You certainly ask interesting questions.