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🗓️ 17 December 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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0:00.0 | World Football in Qatar is the podcast taking you behind the scenes with all 32 teams at the World Cup. |
0:07.0 | We're hearing from the players, the fans and people in Qatar, telling the truly global story of the competition. |
0:15.0 | That's World Football in Qatar from the BBC World Service. Find it wherever you get your BBC podcasts. |
0:23.0 | Hello and welcome to the BBC World Service. I'm Farah Jarral and you're listening to First Contact. |
0:32.0 | For thousands of years we have gazed up at the stars and wondered, is anybody out there? |
0:38.0 | The idea of meeting aliens has been the inspiration for countless books and films for art and music. |
0:45.0 | But today, thinking about meeting life on or from other planets is no longer dismissed as pure make believe. |
0:54.0 | It's the focus of political consideration and cutting edge space science. |
0:59.0 | This is the story of the fantasy and the reality of preparing for First Contact with extraterrestrials. |
1:06.0 | It's quite a profound experience really. |
1:09.0 | It's really, really. It's really, really. It's really, really. It's really, really, really. |
1:17.0 | I'm in a car with Gwen and Tony in Newmarket, a small town surrounded by lush green countryside in Suffolk, Eastern England. |
1:25.0 | I had my experience of 18 years old and I spent six months telling everybody about my experience. |
1:31.0 | I spent the rest of the next several years regretting it because of the ridicule. But nowadays when I go and I talk, it's treated with great respect and there's no laughing and sniggering and what I mean. |
1:46.0 | That's interesting. When do you think that change starts to happen? |
1:50.0 | It's been gradually changing over the past ten years and actually the whole UFO thing now has become enormous. |
1:56.0 | Each year we're getting closer to a full disclosure. So it's just a case of hanging out and hoping we're here to see it. |
2:05.0 | As we leave the town and head into the surrounding countryside, I'm wondering what are we really thinking about when we think about extraterrestrials? |
2:14.0 | Are we truly hoping and expecting to make contact with alien life? |
2:19.0 | Or are we on a journey to discover far more about our earthly selves? |
2:24.0 | Gwen and Tony are clear on one thing. They believe that intelligent aliens have already arrived. |
2:33.0 | I wonder what grows in this field? I think it's corn. Corn. |
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