Detours 5: The last cola in the desert
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
A small Costa Rican surfing city is the unexpected final home for people leaving Asia and Africa in search of a better life in the US. Hosted by Academy Award-winning documentary film-maker Asif Kapadia (Amy, Senna, Diego Maradona), this is the last 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: Katy Long
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| 0:00.0 | For the coming of the viento, |
| 0:05.0 | boy so plano aguardiente. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, I'm Asif Kapapadia and welcome to the fifth and final episode of our detours series |
| 0:18.0 | from the BBC World Service in collaboration with Sundance Institute. |
| 0:23.0 | Detors take us off main roads |
| 0:26.0 | and in this series were with people who ended up seeing things |
| 0:29.0 | in places they didn't expect to be. |
| 0:40.0 | Now Katie Long and a host of travellers take us to Costa Rica for the last cola in the desert. I come Italy, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. |
| 0:45.0 | From Ghana to Brazil, Brazil, to Peru. |
| 0:49.0 | Brazil, Brazil, to Peru. Brazil, Colombia. |
| 0:51.0 | Ahh, Brazil. |
| 0:52.0 | Brazil, Peru, Panama, Panama, and Ecuador, |
| 0:54.6 | Colombia, Colombia, Panama, Pto-Horrika. |
| 0:57.4 | The Pan-American Highway cut straight |
| 0:59.7 | through this little town of Lacroos here in Costa Rica. |
| 1:03.0 | Thousands follow this road northwards to Nicaragua, |
| 1:06.0 | seeking El Grand Sueno Americano. |
| 1:09.0 | They have got in their head |
| 1:11.0 | the Grand Sueno American, the great American dream. They think that the |
| 1:16.0 | US is like the last cola in the desert. I am a little trouble. I am a little trouble.'ve already been coming here weeks in order to get some money |
| 1:27.4 | they just tell me to call Western Union but when I call them, they tell me nothing. |
| 1:33.0 | Grasse at Happer, here in Lacroos Bus Station, |
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