BBC OS Conversations: Living with rising prices
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Prices almost everywhere are going up, which means most of us have less money to spend. At the heart of it is inflation, the rate at which prices are rising. It means paying higher costs for everything, from food to transport, clothes to power, and less on life’s luxuries.
Host James Reynolds has been bringing people around the world together to share their experiences of inflation. Three people living in cities in Asia, Africa and Europe describe their struggles to buy food and pay the rent.
We also speak to business owners, in Argentina, Senegal and Zimbabwe, including two who run restaurants. They give us an insight into how they stay solvent and share some advice on spending. They say that even when times are tough, people still want to go out to socialise with friends and family.
And two students, in Poland and Lebanon, tell us know they have taken on multiple jobs to make ends meet.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Who is your pick for the all-time greatest African Miffielder? |
| 0:03.6 | He's the most naturally talented player that I've played with. |
| 0:05.8 | See if your choice made the list on match-a-day Africa Top 10 from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.6 | Find it wherever you get your BBC podcast. |
| 0:13.8 | Hello, I'm James Reynolds. |
| 0:15.2 | Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:18.8 | In BBC OS conversations, we bring people together around the world |
| 0:23.0 | to share their experiences and this time, |
| 0:25.4 | its conversations on living with rising prices. |
| 0:30.2 | With the cost of almost everything going up, |
| 0:33.2 | we wanted to get a sense of how people around the world are coping. |
| 0:36.6 | We hear from three people living in cities, |
| 0:38.8 | from students holding down several jobs, |
| 0:41.6 | and we get some advice from restaurant owners in Argentina and Senegal. |
| 0:46.0 | There's so many ways that you can spend your money in a very wise way |
| 0:50.0 | and still have a great time. |
| 0:51.8 | It just depends on how you call it a great time |
| 0:53.8 | and what you call it, great food and stuff like that. |
| 0:56.6 | For me, if the prices are going to be like, |
| 0:59.2 | food crazy, I will find something else. |
| 1:03.2 | Inflation is a word that many of us have become terribly familiar with |
| 1:07.0 | over the last couple of years. |
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