Detours 2: Where the homeless elephants go

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Wild elephants surround a village in Assam, India. And they’re hungry. Spend time with the night watch, trying to keep people safe. Hosted by Academy Award-winning documentary film-maker Asif Kapadia (Amy, Senna, Diego Maradona), this is the second episode in a five-part series from BBC World Service in collaboration with Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute. Detours takes us off the main roads of our lives, following people who didn’t end up where they expected.

Producer: Damon Smith

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Ausef Kapadia and welcome to the second episode of Detours, a five-part
0:08.3	series from the BBC World Service in collaboration with Sundance Institute.
0:13.0	I'm a documentary film director, I directed Sena, Amy and Diego Maradonna.
0:18.0	I'm interested in outsiders, characters, personal stories from around the world.
0:25.0	We're in Assam in India, and it's been a long day in the fields as wild elephants around a village.
0:31.0	They're hungry, they've been forced off the usual feeding routes.
0:36.0	Damon Smith is out with the Nightwatch to find out where the homeless elephants go.
0:44.0	Today the whole herd was making a lot of noise.
0:47.0	I think we should go down.
0:48.0	Let's go.
0:49.0	Yeah, let's go. It's midnight in a sum, a tea-producing state in Northeast India and a group of elephants is moving toward a nearby village.
1:07.0	Is there anything?
1:09.0	I don't hear anything right now.
1:12.0	No, I do.
1:14.0	That side.
1:16.0	Yeah.
1:17.0	Oh, right.
1:18.0	I can't tell which other.
1:22.0	I can't tell which other it's right.
1:24.0	That's her.
1:25.0	India is home to 60% of the world's Asian elephants.
1:30.0	They're widely revered as divine creatures in this Hindu majority nation.
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