Don't log off - part three

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Across every continent, lives have been put on hold, and people are looking to the day when they can pick up and restart after lockdown. In Mexico, Lucia has spent the past seven years searching for her kidnapped son – one of thousands of disappeared children in the country. For now she has been forced to put that on hold. Captain Jens aboard a vast container ship has not been on land for three months – and does not know when he will next see his family, but he is finding solace in the logs of his ancestors. In Nigeria, student Babatunde Ismail Bale is sheltering in a mosque after his college closed its doors – but is still finding ways to study. And in the Philippine’s capital Manila, armed soldiers on the streets are bringing back fearful memories of martial law in the 1970s.

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0:00.0	The streets are empty. The world is locked down, but human beings need to connect.
0:11.6	Hello, can you hear me?
0:13.0	Hi, hey Alan.
0:14.4	Ismail?
0:15.4	Yeah, good morning.
0:16.4	I'm reaching out across the globe.
0:18.0	This is like a rainforest here.
0:21.0	How far have you traveled since we last spoke? That must be about 2,000 miles.
0:26.4	Finding out what unites us all at this time of crisis.
0:30.4	They'll probably start counting down.
0:32.4	Saying okay 10 days left, 8 days left. crisis. They'll probably start counting down.
0:33.0	Saying, okay, 10 days left, 8 days left, 5 days left.
0:36.0	It breaks my heart.
0:38.0	There's something so important, it's suddenly pushed back.
0:42.0	I'm Alan Dean. is suddenly pushed back.
1:04.8	I'm Alan Dean and this is Don has been in lockdown since the beginning of April. Lucia, tell me, where are you?
1:07.6	I'm in a little town called Quatopec.
1:12.2	It's one of those Pueblo, Mexico they called them here.
1:16.1	Five hours away from Mexico City.
1:18.4	Tell me, how was your morning? What have you been doing this morning?
1:22.1	You know, they're break. What have
1:22.8	the breakfast of cleaning a little?
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