Don't log off - part two
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Alan Dein connects with people around the world trying to find moments of calm during the coronavirus pandemic. He speaks to Jens, the captain of a container ship in the middle of the Indian Ocean who is unsure when he may be able to get his crew back home, and Sujatha, an 85-year-old in India who is philosophical about being confined to her home in Delhi. South of Delhi, Alan reaches out to Chinu who is feeding Mumbai's urban poor as the Indian government imposes a lockdown. And he speak to Benedetta, who is eight months pregnant in an anxious and eerily quiet Rome. He also catches up with 16-year-old Ibrahim who was homeless on the streets of Athens when they last spoke - but now has some good news to share.
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| 0:00.0 | The streets are empty. The world is locked down. But human beings need to connect. |
| 0:10.0 | Is that Benedetta? Yes, hi, how are you? Hi, is this Chinu? Yeah, this is Chinu. I'm reaching out across the globe. To every continent. I'm in Rome. I'm from Sierra Leone, West Africa. What time is it with you now in Delhi? |
| 0:25.0 | Finding out what unites us all at this time of crisis. |
| 0:30.0 | The atmosphere is not nice. |
| 0:31.0 | People are very, very scared. |
| 0:33.0 | But it also brings out how kind and how good and how altruistic they can be. |
| 0:39.0 | No, I don't think it will be the same world anymore. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Alan Dean and this is Don't Log Off on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:49.3 | Captain Jens on the Emma Musk. Hello Captain Jens on the Emma Merz. |
| 0:53.6 | Hello Captain Jens. |
| 0:55.0 | Jens is the captain of a vast container ship carrying 150,000 tons of cargo and 23 crew members. We are just at the entrance of the Gulf of |
| 1:06.5 | Aidan. We are coming from Malaysia and going to the Seuss Canal just north of |
| 1:12.0 | Somalia. |
| 1:13.0 | Could you describe the view? |
| 1:16.0 | Looking out of the window here, I have all my nice little containers, safe and sound on deck, |
| 1:21.0 | and behind there there's just open ocean and not a single cloud on the sky. |
| 1:27.6 | Pretty nice day actually around 30 degrees outside temperature. It's warm. |
| 1:34.0 | When did you leave Port to begin your trip? |
| 1:39.0 | We left Dubai and the world, as we knew it, on the 25th of January and we were bound for China. |
| 1:47.8 | When we arrived in China this whole situation just developed very rapidly out in China. |
| 1:53.0 | So we hadn't any opportunity to go ashore since then |
| 1:57.0 | more or less in isolation here on board since end of January. |
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