If Only They Didnt Speak English - Jon Sopel
If Only They Didnt Speak English - Jon Sopel As the BBC's North America Editor, Jon Sopel has had a pretty busy time of it lately. Through music, film, literature, TV and even through the food we eat…
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If Only They Didnt Speak English - Jon Sopel
As the BBC's North America Editor, Jon Sopel has had a pretty busy time of it lately. Through music, film, literature, TV and even through the food we eat and the clothes that we wear we all have a highly developed sense of what America is and through our shared, tangled history we claim a special relationship. In the 18 months it's taken for a reality star to go from laughingstock to leader of the free world, Jon has travelled the length and breadth of the United States, experiencing it from a perspective that most of us could only dream of: he has flown aboard Air Force One, interviewed President Obama and has even been described as `a beauty' by none other than Donald Trump.
It is fearful, angry and impatient for change. But America today feels about as alien a country as you could imagine. Reflecting on his journey across the continent to cover the most turbulent race in recent history, Jon Sopel lifts a lid on the seething resentments, profound anxieties and sheer rage that found its embodiment in a brash, unpredictable and seemingly unstoppable figure.
In this fascinating, insightful portrait of American life and politics, Jon sets out to answer our questions about a country that once stood for the grandest of dreams but which is now mired in a storm of political extremism, racial division and increasingly perverse beliefs.