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Over to You: How to Make the UK Election Interesting to the World

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13/05/2017 GMT

How to Make the UK Election Interesting to the World

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With the UK elections looming Rajan Datar asks if the coverage is relevant to everyone

Political correspondent Rob Watson, answer listeners’ questions around making UK election coverage interesting to the rest of the world.

When reporting on the UK General Elections, Rob Watson, the BBC World Service’s UK political correspondent is always wearing his global hat, but it is not always easy to make one country’s interests relevant to all. This week, Rajan Datar asks Rob how he keeps his coverage interesting and listeners from Spain and Brazil have queries around how political language and colloquial expressions translate across the world.

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