Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio 4,22 Aug 2024,45 mins

Kamala Harris to give biggest speech of career at DNC finale

The World Tonight

Available for over a year

The Vice President will take to the stage, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, to accept the party’s presidential nomination. Her aides say she'll deliver a robust denunciation of Donald Trump, and lay out her plans to tackle the cost of living and protect personal freedoms, including access to abortion. Also in the programme: The first drug to slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease has been approved for private use, but it won't be available on the NHS in England. And, the world's second-largest diamond was found in Botswana.

Programme Website
More episodes