Christmas dispatches from around the world
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This is a special episode of Stories of our times, where we join Times and Sunday Times correspondents around the globe. Here are their Christmas postcards.
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Guests:
-Louise Callaghan, Middle East correspondent, The Sunday Times.
-Sarah Baxter, Writer, The Sunday Times.
-Oliver Moody, Berlin correspondent, The Times and The Sunday Times.
-Tom Kington, Rome correspondent, The Times.
Host: Calum Macdonald.
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| 0:00.0 | Heard about Magpie, the vegan pie truck that needed a bit of help from GoDaddy. |
| 0:03.4 | One day the owners are like, |
| 0:04.8 | this business hasn't reached this potential. |
| 0:07.1 | And the other one goes, |
| 0:08.1 | we need a bigger piece of the pie. |
| 0:09.8 | And then it hits her. |
| 0:11.1 | We need GoDaddy. |
| 0:12.0 | Look, we can get a domain name and create an online store |
| 0:14.8 | so we can sell to more customers. |
| 0:16.7 | Now they've gone from serving a couple of pies |
| 0:19.1 | to vlogging nationwide. |
| 0:20.9 | And now everyone's like, |
| 0:22.2 | vegan pies are the new thing around here. |
| 0:25.0 | Wait, know me! |
| 0:26.3 | Tid a next step on your business journey with GoDaddy. |
| 0:35.7 | Hello, I'm Callum MacDonald, |
| 0:37.3 | but thankfully for you and what can only be described as a Christmas miracle, |
| 0:41.2 | you're not actually hearing a lot from me to Z. |
| 0:43.9 | Merry Christmas to you, you are welcome. |
| 0:46.8 | This is a special episode of Stories of Our Times. |
| 0:50.1 | I'm handing over two times and Sunday Times correspondents |
| 0:53.4 | all around the globe. |
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