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Trancription sample *Below is an example of a podcast transcript. Your transcript may look different depending upon your needs. * Podcast Title: How to Invent a Country Episode: #1 -”The Invention of the USA” Length: 30 minutes [Speaker 2] This is the BBC. [Rhianne] Hi and welcome to Podcasting House, and if you're joining us for the first time, hello and where have you been? So this is the feed where we bring you an idea of something you might like to listen to, we play you an episode, and what you do after that is up to you. But usually we are offering you something that we think you might quite enjoy. So you can find it and subscribe at the places where you usually find your podcasts. So my name is Rhianne, and with me I have Eli. Hello. Who has his offer of the week. [Eli] Yes, this is How to Invent a Country. It's from Mischa Glennie, the guy who wrote Mafia, the book that the recent TV show that was on iPlayer was based on. And this is a podcast about how nations started. Specific nations. If you think about it, the idea that you could even have a specific nation in the first place also had to be invented, and Mischa Glennie gets into that too. He's got several episodes that deal with the Habsburg Empire, which stretched from Spain to Holland and most of Germany. Anyway, in this episode, he talks about a much younger nation than that, the United States. [Rhianne] Bless him. [Eli] Very dear to my heart. This is How to Invent a Country. [Rhianne] You're still inventing yourselves. [Eli] Oh, gosh. Yeah. More on that from another podcast, perhaps, if there still are podcasts in a year's time. This is How to Invent a Country, presented by Mischa Glennie for Radio 4. [Mischa Glennie] This is episode one of The Invention of the USA. On July the 9th, 1776, here at the southern tip of Manhattan on what is known as Bowling Green, American patriots toppled a great statue of the tyrant British King George III. Then they melted down the lead in the statue and turned it into bullets to shoot at the redcoats. As revolutionary tales go, this one's red hot. And it's worth adding that this blow for liberty came just days after the Declaration of Independence of July the 4th. So it was good riddance to King George, hello to the American dream. Except that to pull down this statue, the patriots used African slaves. Nothing in history is ever quite what it seems. [Alan Taylor] My name is Alan Taylor, and I'm the author of American Revolutions.