days. scottish national party s chief exec as it has resigned with immediate effect, after the snp was forced to reveal a massive drop in its party member ship this week. you are watching bbc news. time for the media show. my guest today has covered some of the most defining stories of our time. gary younge briefly became part of nelson mandela s entourage, joined revellers as president obama was elected, and has covered much else too gay marriage, brexit, the windrush scandal, and the black lives matter movement. gary left as a full time journalism at the guardian in 2020 to become professor of sociology at the university of manchester. although he continues to write articles for various publications and books. his new one is a collection of his journalism called dispatches from the diaspora. gary younge, welcome to the media show. let s go back to some of where it all began. you studied french and russian at heriot watt university in edinburgh, and then in yourfinal year
And from contributions from pbs station. From viewers like you. Thank you. Snot always a pleasure to catch up with gary younge ed tord alt large for the guardian newspaper. Hes been tracking the rise of the far right and the far left, in the recent elections, in europe and in america. And the epidemic in his text, another day in the death of america. Good to have you in los angeles. Thank you for having me. Let me start across the pond and well come back to the text here stateside. The french elections, what do you make of the interim outcome . Its not quite over yet. Marine le pen comes in second, not first. Thats right. First of all, theres the le pen factor. I studied french. I studied in france. When i was 15, and following a school exchange, i went out to visit one of the kids that i was become friends with. Second day i was there, he came in with tears in his eyes and he said i couldnt have a black man in my house. It was more traumatic for him and that for me. I was kicked out o
And from contributions from pbs station. From viewers like you. Thank you. Snot always a pleasure to catch up with gary younge ed tord alt large for the guardian newspaper. Hes been tracking the rise of the far right and the far left, in the recent elections, in europe and in america. And the epidemic in his text, another day in the death of america. Good to have you in los angeles. Thank you for having me. Let me start across the pond and well come back to the text here stateside. The french elections, what do you make of the interim outcome . Its not quite over yet. Marine le pen comes in second, not first. Thats right. First of all, theres the le pen factor. I studied french. I studied in france. When i was 15, and following a school exchange, i went out to visit one of the kids that i was become friends with. Second day i was there, he came in with tears in his eyes and he said i couldnt have a black man in my house. It was more traumatic for him and that for me. I was kicked out o
The statistic is every day, on average, seven children and teens in america shot dead. I wanted to pick a day, a random day and find that who these kids were, what they wanted to be and in what circumstances did they die and that was a random day id chose. Host he basically picked it out of a hat or did you have a system . Guest will come in order for the book to work, there had to be seven fatalities that day. So with more likely to be a weekend day so that was about. Beyond that it was, if i wanted a higher number i wouldve gone into some of your summer is little more children die because they are out. Is when more chile because they are out. This was the weekend before thanksgiving and the first day i could do. Host in your book you write firearms are the leading source of death among black children under the age of is 19. The second leading cause of death for all children in the same age group after Car Accidents. Is this a book about gun control . Guest no, it is definitely not. T
With this years lukas fridays ceremony our program is a little bit of the introduction and i hope an interesting discussion with our three winners and then with more celebration to come so thanks for all of you to share this part of the evening with us first i will tell you about this prize is you may not be as acquainted with it as we are but this is a prize in memory of tony lucas who inspired my generation the first time we started to taken college what we wanted to write and our generation grew up with a narrative nonfiction searching about social issues and Common Ground so when he passed a lot of people were inspired by his life to create this prius this is where the enterprise began it has expanded gradually for the Senior Executive in the netherlands at the time of his death in the 1997 as a reporter of serious history his children established the prize as part of a the lucas fridays project and his family has generally underwritten the prize since the inception in 1998 his wif