Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
A bonus episode from the Lives Less Ordinary podcast. Manni Coe’s brother Reuben has Down’s syndrome, and had become isolated and non-verbal in a UK care home during the Covid pandemic – so he decided to stage a lockdown rescue mission. For more extraordinary personal stories from around the world, go to bbcworldservice.com/liveslessordinary or search for Live Less Ordinary wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
Presenter: Jo Fidgen Producer: May Cameron
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Joe Fidgen. Welcome to this bonus episode in the documentary from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm one of the presenters of the BBC's Lives Less Ordinary podcast, extraordinary personal stories from around the world. |
| 0:14.3 | We'll bring you an episode of Lives Less Ordinary here when we can, but to hear every episode search for Lives Less Ordinary, wherever you find your BBC podcasts. |
| 0:25.4 | Now, listen very carefully. |
| 0:28.5 | Ruben Coe doesn't like to shout, but he has something very important to say. |
| 0:36.0 | Do you... to say. Baham, um, |
| 0:38.3 | Papa, |
| 0:40.1 | do you love me? |
| 0:44.9 | So that was the text message |
| 0:47.0 | that Reuben sent to me |
| 0:48.2 | in between the lockdown, |
| 0:50.0 | in between the first lockdown and the second lockdown. |
| 0:52.1 | Brother dot, do, dot, you, dot, love, dot me, dot. |
| 0:57.1 | Dot, not question mark at the end. |
| 0:59.0 | It wasn't a question. |
| 1:00.1 | It wasn't a question there. |
| 1:01.4 | He wasn't asking me if I love him. |
| 1:03.2 | He was basically, I think, writing big SOS in the sand. |
| 1:12.8 | In November 2020, when the coronavirus was wreaking havoc all over the world, Manny was |
| 1:20.0 | living abroad in Spain, Ruben, who's in its 30s, was living in a care home in England, |
| 1:26.1 | cut off from friends and family and struggling badly |
| 1:29.8 | with the isolation. When Manny got that text, that SOS, he knew he needed to rescue his little |
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