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The Documentary Podcast

Flying Seagulls: Child's play

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The Flying Seagull Project travels the world with a simple goal: to enable and empower children in warzones and refugee camps to play. Theirs is a riproaring, irreverent, iridescent carnival that cuts through even the hoariest of cynics - and changes people's lives. From Glastonbury to a juvenile prison in Poland, and from a refugee camp in Bulgaria to a primary school in South London, reporter Georgia Moodie follows Ash Perrin, the founder of the Flying Seagulls as he gets kids from all walks of life to chuckle, yell and play.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, Namulanta Kombohir and I'm excited to tell you that my award-winning podcast, Dear

0:07.0

Daughter, is back for his second season and it's available now.

0:12.0

Find out more at the end of this podcast.

0:17.0

We're in the kids' fields at Glastonbury in southwest England, the largest outdoor music

0:26.0

arts festival in the world.

0:33.0

A big group of excited kids are watching a circus show put on by a bunch of entertainers

0:45.0

and clowns.

0:47.0

They're called the Flying Seagull Project and their ringleader is a man called Ash

0:52.2

So this is an all-in swinging sword's pirate adventure where we basically face down

0:58.2

fears on the desert of nightmares, we take on the sinking sand of doom and gloom and

1:02.2

we come out the other end and we earn hopefully our courage buttons.

1:05.2

Now we sail the seven seas by singing the seven seas south, your bits easy, just do this.

1:11.2

Heave home, heave home.

1:14.2

For the past 15 years, Ash has been on a mission to bring fun and frivolity to children around

1:20.2

the world and in particular to disadvantaged children, children in refugee camps and juvenile

1:27.2

detention centres in orphanages and care homes.

1:31.2

Shows like this one at Glastonbury help raise money for all their work with vulnerable

1:36.2

kids.

1:38.2

I'm Georgia Moody and you're listening to the documentary on the

1:50.1

BBC World Service.

1:52.1

Over the past few months, I've been following Ash and the rest of the Flying Seagulls to

1:57.3

find out why they think that play is essential to all children, but especially those in need.

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