Don't log off - part seven

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In Mumbai, Chinu has been has been providing food to the city’s migrant and daily labourers who have been unable to work since the country’s lockdown. Getting up at 4.30am each day, he has served over 415,000 hot meals so far. In Nigeria, optometry student Ismail has been sleeping in a mosque since his college closed its doors three and a half months ago, but is holding on to his dreams of working for the WHO or UN. And deep in the Amazon rainforest, Tatiana, a state politician and academic forecasts trouble ahead.

Transcript

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0:00.0	The world's borders are closed.
0:02.5	The future is uncertain.
0:04.8	We're keeping our distance,
0:07.5	but human beings still need to connect.
0:11.2	Hello.
0:12.0	Hello, good to hear your voice.
0:13.7	Tatiana.
0:14.5	Hello.
0:15.8	Is that a cat or something?
0:17.2	Sorry, it was my cat.
0:19.9	I've been reaching out across the globe.
0:22.4	I'm in the southern part of India.
0:24.8	We're at the end of the Amazon winter.
0:27.7	Are you still living in the mosque at the university?
0:31.0	Yes, yes, yes.
0:32.6	Searching for the things that unite us in this time of crisis.
0:37.2	I can't just complain about the government.
0:39.2	I am the government.
0:40.2	Whoa, you know.
0:41.7	They should take all the positivity from all these learnings.
0:45.2	Then it would be a better place to live in.
0:48.0	After they will forget about it,
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