The Future of Democracy
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More than two billion people go to the polls next year in elections across the world. So, with that in mind, Adam catches up with political scientist Ben Ansell. \\n \\nProfessor Ben Ansell delivered this year\\u2019s BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures, following in the footsteps of Robert Oppenheimer, Hilary Mantel and Stephen Hawking.\\n \\nThey\\u2019re called: Our Democratic Future and in this episode, Adam and Ben discuss how we can make politics work for all of us in the 21st century. \\n \\nListen to all the Reith Lectures here on https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9\\n \\nYou can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere\\n \\nToday\\u2019s Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Gray with Gemma Roper. The technical producer was Matt Dean. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.
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