From Our Home Correspondent 07/07/2020

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🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In the latest programme, Mishal Husain introduces pieces from writers around the United Kingdom which reflect life as it is being led during Covid-19. Paul Moss, who reports for Radio 4's "The World Tonight" and the BBC World Service, spills the beans on how daily reporting has changed during lockdown. His story includes weirdly unprofessional backdrops, some decidedly awkward manoeuvring of equipment, bedding - and the neighbours. BBC News presenter, Tanya Beckett, has found that lockdown has meant that time has stood still in her Oxfordshire village, leaving her to reflect on a dreadful crime. It took place not far from where she now lives and, as she has learnt more about the case, it has turned out to be even closer to home than she had at first realised. Businesses across the UK are deciding how to operate as lockdown restrictions are eased. They include tarot card readers who perhaps saw what was coming. Writer and broadcaster Travis Elborough has been speaking to two Brighton tarot readers who are getting ready to meet clients again. So how is the future looking? And how's your bubble? In June, it was announced that single person and single parent households could form a "support bubble" with another household. After months alone, Jane Labous, in lockdown with her young daughter, has taken the plunge. She's been speaking to others weighing up the pros and cons of "bubbling up". Lockdown has curtailed plans to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth later this month of the household naturalist, the Reverend Gilbert White. Yet his writings, based on observations in the Hampshire village of Selborne, remain astonishingly accessible and informative today - as Andrew Green, with a special Selborne connection himself, has found. Producer: Simon Coates

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.0	Thank you for downloading from our home correspondent on BBC Radio 4.
0:09.7	I'm Michelle Hussein and this time although lockdown is beginning to unwind, we're thinking about
0:14.8	the new ways of living and working that might stay with us.
0:19.4	So we have the distanced crystal ball of the psychic and the socially distanced date.
0:26.0	In Oxfordshire, how a heinous crime committed locally turned out to be much closer to one of our correspondence than she first realized, and we're keeping
0:36.0	the memory of an 18th century ecologist alive and thriving.
0:42.0	First though, behind the scenes of broadcast journalism, pandemic style.
0:46.0	You'll be accustomed by now to hearing dodgy lines on air, even on Radio 4,
0:52.0	but Paul Moss from the world tonight is ready to spill the beans on lockdown reporting.
0:57.0	This story involves unprofessional backdrops, awkward mic maneuvering and bedding. I don't think I've given it all away though.
1:07.0	It wouldn't have been a great look at the best of times, but it was a particularly bad look to have when reporting from a
1:14.6	political protest. I was at a Black Lives Matter demonstration hoping
1:19.3	participants would speak into my microphone about why they were there what they hope to achieve.
1:25.0	It didn't help that the microphone was perched precariously on the end of a two-meter pole,
1:30.0	a necessary accoutrement if you want to interview people while maintaining social distance.
1:36.6	So I found myself advancing towards bewildered protesters with the poll held out in front, looking like a rather sorry version of a medieval night about
1:46.2	to take part in a jousting contest.
1:49.4	It also didn't help that I had a mask over my face. Normally when reporting at protests I tend to approach
1:55.1	people smiling in a friendly, relaxed manner. What they got was a pole-wielding masked man calling
2:02.0	out muffled inquiries.
2:03.7	Why are you here? I mumbled loudly.
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