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The Documentary Podcast

Bonus: HARDtalk

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

A bonus episode from HARDtalk, in-depth, hard-hitting interviews with newsworthy personalities. Stephen Sackur is on the road in Guyana, South America, home to globally significant ecosystems and now one of the world's biggest offshore oil and gas reserves. As Guyana experiences record economic growth, will its people feel the benefit?

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0:00.0

The Global Jigsaw Saw is the podcast Lifting the Language Barrier to show you the world through its media.

0:07.0

Radio Tejana.

0:09.0

We're both parties.

0:11.0

The Western countries are not the international community. The Global Jigsoe,

0:15.0

Jigso from the BBC World Service.

0:19.0

Listen now by searching for the explanation,

0:22.0

wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

0:24.4

Hello, I'm Stephen Sacker and welcome to this bonus episode of the documentary from

0:32.3

the BBC World Service.

0:34.1

Normally I host the BBC's Hard Talk podcast, in-depth hard-hitting interviews

0:39.3

with newsmaking personalities.

0:41.6

And for more on that you can just search for hard talk

0:43.9

wherever you get your BBC podcasts. But in this special program I'm on the road in

0:50.5

Guyana South America thanks to some of the most significant offshore oil and

0:55.8

gas reserves in the world, Guyana is being transformed into a Premier League

1:02.0

Petro State, but out in the mangrove forests on Guyana's

1:06.4

northwest coast there's deep concern about the potential environmental impact

1:12.3

of big oil on this fragile

1:15.2

ecosystem. Not only that, fossil fuel riches of stokes tension with neighboring Venezuela

1:21.9

which claims a vast sway of Guyana's on and

1:26.5

offshore territory. Guyana has indeed hit the fossil fuel jackpot as the world is supposed to be embracing decarbonisation.

1:35.6

But is that really good for the country's 800,000 people.

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