Laura Trevelyan

劳拉·特雷维廉

The Big Interview

2025-10-17

31 分钟
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The long-time anchor of BBC World News America on becoming a US citizen the day after Donald Trump’s election and how her family’s history of slave ownership led her to apologise and offer reparations. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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  • Suddenly, people are looking excited.

  • Republicans are looking shocked, looking joyful.

  • And so then it was just a great night to be there with everybody wanting to be interviewed.

  • You know, excellent access to all kinds of Trump officials for the live coverage.

  • And then it all...

  • finished at sort of three in the morning and the next day I was being sworn in as an American citizen,

  • actually.

  • So I had to get myself to the federal courthouse at eight o'clock in the morning.

  • So I got no sleep and I got to the courthouse and it was like a microcosm of America.

  • You know,

  • all these people from across the world becoming citizens pretty much divided down the middle on what they thought about Donald Trump.

  • So of course I had to do a piece about becoming an American citizen and interview everybody who was becoming a citizen with me.

  • On the 9th of November 2016,

  • one day after Donald Trump's first election as President of the United States,

  • the British journalist Laura Trevelyan became an American citizen.

  • This while she was the lead presenter of BBC World News America,

  • a news show that was dedicated to a U.S. audience airing on PBS,

  • and that Trevelyan would present for over a decade.

  • Laura Trevelyan was born into a colorful, historical family that includes,

  • among its members, a famous historian of England,