Coronavirus Global Conversations: Making people laugh
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
We speak to comedian Sarah Cooper in New York - her President Trump lip-syncs have gone viral on TikTok. Also, Waylene Beukes in Namibia and Anna Piper Scott in Melbourne, who was about to start a full-time comedy career as the pandemic hit. We also hear about the impact of lockdown restrictions for those living alone. Three people: in Manitoba, Canada; Perth, Australia; and New Orleans in the United States come together and tell us how they are miss human touch.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Nula McGovern and we're bringing you coronavirus global conversations here on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:07.0 | As the pandemic continues to upturn lives and alter our expectations. We talk to teenagers returning to school |
| 0:15.6 | in Iceland and Germany. Three over 60s living alone in Canada, Australia and the US reveal |
| 0:21.3 | the psychological effects of isolation and the comedians who are |
| 0:25.2 | rethinking their act. |
| 0:26.7 | The pandemic is not a good time to be going through puberty? |
| 0:29.1 | No. |
| 0:30.1 | No. |
| 0:31.1 | I don't mean to laugh, but it is. |
| 0:34.1 | Everything is heightened right already. |
| 0:36.1 | I've missed the laughing so much. |
| 0:39.2 | You have no idea. |
| 0:42.4 | As it's becoming clear, no matter what generation you are from, the pandemic is affecting our lives, |
| 0:48.0 | sometimes in different ways, but more often than not we are united by the simple loss of human contact with our friends, family and |
| 0:55.1 | loved ones. Here's 14 year old Katla from Iceland who we'll hear more from later and one of |
| 1:01.0 | our listeners who got in touch from Ghana. |
| 1:03.0 | It's been really sad for me to not be able to see any of my friends and stuff like that. |
| 1:07.0 | It's been hard for my dad as well to not be able to travel for work. |
| 1:10.0 | And then I kind of realized with the more articles that I was reading that there are definitely teenagers that are still really having it bad and especially with not being allowed to see my grandparents or any of my other family members that was really when it said in that this is quite severe. |
| 1:25.6 | I really miss hugging my grandmother and being allowed to spend time with people. |
| 1:29.2 | My name is Kupnapoku from Akraagana. I miss hugging my mom. My mom is over 70 years and |
| 1:36.4 | as part of the high-risk age group of COVID-19 infection and she's also asthmatic so |
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