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Welcome back to Nomad podcast. My name's Tim Nash. I'm Dave Ward. This is kind of a little occasional

thing that we throw in from time to time. How many of these are we done? It's hard to say,

Dave. Possibly four. Yeah. I'm thinking. Yeah, it's pretty new, isn't it? Yeah. Frash. And this time it's...

It's to do with the refugee crisis.

Yeah, yeah.

It's been in the news a lot.

Some very disturbing, heart-wrenching images.

Kind of thing that can make you feel a bit powerless and not really know, not really understand the complexities of the issues and how to respond.

It's been clearly going on for a long time, hasn't it? But all of a sudden in this last, I don't know, six months or so, it's really kind of got a huge momentum, hasn't it?

Certainly in terms of media coverage it hasn't.

Yeah, I mean, because there were people dying on boats for ages,

weren't they, being centre-crossed,

but for some reason it never really sort of got into the media that much.

And then obviously that photograph of the little boy on the beach

really made

the world sort of turn and see what was happening. It's funny, isn't it, how just one child.

Yeah, one image. Yeah, one image. And obviously there have been loads of children that have died

in that crossing, but just seeing an image of one child can have such a big impact.

We're slipping into a premature reflection here, Wardo.

This is still intro, is it?

I think so, because it's about...

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