Jon Sopel - Strangeland
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| Date | Thursday 14th November 2024 | |
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| Time | 7:30 PM | |
| Doors Open | 7:00 PM | |
| Venue | High Street Baptist Church | |
In 2022, after eight years of political reporting in the US, Jon Sopel moved home to the UK. Having spent almost a third of his career abroad, he returned to find a very different country to the one he left. In Strangeland, Jon examines the new post-Brexit Britain with fresh eyes, as a native who’s been out but come back. With his characteristic wit and clarity, he unpicks the changes that have rendered his homeland almost unrecognisable from the country he once knew.
In the US, Jon was firm in his belief that a common language masked the country’s fundamental differences with Britain. In terms of values and beliefs, Britian always felt much closer to our European neighbours. However, this is no longer the case, and Strangeland reveals just how we got here.
During his time in America, Jon slowly came to discover that he did not know the US as well as he thought. Even more disconcertingly, he has come to a similar conclusion on his return to Britain. Has the country he grew up in dramatically changed? Has he? Perhaps it’s both.
An unsparing analysis of things that have shaped and shaken Britain, Strangeland is Jon Sopel’s remarkable portrait of his homeland in chaos.
Strangeland is Jon’s first book since launching the global hit podcast, The News Agents. This is one of the biggest news and politics podcasts in the UK, achieving over 21 million downloads in its first six months alone.
'A thrilling, nerve-wracking book. You couldn't make the last ten years up; thanks to Jon Sopel, you don't have to' - Peter Frankopan
'Acute and unflinching - Sopel deploys his foreign correspondent skills on home shores as well as far ones, and brings together the story of a tumultuous few years on both sides of the Atlantic' - Mishal Husain
ABOUT JON SOPEL
JON SOPEL was the BBC's North America Editor for 8 years, before launching The News Agents podcast with Emily Maitlis and Lewis Goodall in August 2022. During his time at the BBC, he covered the 2016 and 2020 elections and Trump's White House at first hand, reporting for the BBC across TV, radio and online, as well as presenting the highly successful Americast podcast with Emily Maitlis and Anthony Zurcher. He is the author of If Only They Didn't Speak English: Notes from Trump's America, A Year at the Circus: Inside Trump's White House and UnPresidented: Politics, Pandemics and the Race that Trumped All Others.