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THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST

EP.57 - HASSAN AKKAD

THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST

Adam Buxton

Comedy

4.821.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2017

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Adam talks with Hassan Akkad about why and how he came to leave Damascus and make the dangerous journey to seek refuge in Europe as an illegal immigrant.

Information about the ‘TimePeace’ - a mobile app, which will connect asylum seekers and locals, to meet and share for free their skills, passions and interests, here: https://www.timepeaceapp.org/

Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support and Matt Lamont for additional editing.

Music & jingles by Adam Buxton


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Transcript

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0:00.0

I added one more podcast to the giant podcast bin

0:05.4

Now you have plugged that podcast out and started listening

0:09.7

I took my microphone and found some human folk

0:14.4

Then I recorded all the noises while we spoke

0:19.8

My name is Adam Baxter and I'm a man

0:24.8

I want you to enjoy this, that's the plan

0:29.8

Hey, how you doing listeners?

0:35.8

Adam Baxtern here

0:37.8

Now I don't know if you can hear but I am not in East Anglia

0:44.8

Take a listen

0:49.8

Not many clues there but I'm out in Los Angeles

0:54.8

America to record a few podcasts

0:58.8

And to gift the bug Bowie special to a theatre full of homesick Brits

1:05.8

And a few adventures Americans tonight

1:08.8

I've been here a few days now

1:11.8

Still a little bit jet lagged so I woke up early this morning

1:15.8

And rather than record this intro in my little room that I'm renting

1:21.8

Franklin Village I thought I would take the walk up the Dusty track

1:28.8

To the Griffith Park Observatory in the hills above

1:33.8

It's not too far from where I'm staying actually it's just behind

1:37.8

So it's about a 45 minute walk

1:39.8

Griffith Park Observatory of course famous Hollywood landmark

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