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From Our Own Correspondent

From Our Home Correspondent 16/06/2020

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers which reflect the range of contemporary life in the UK. Emir Nader of BBC Arabic tells the story of the family of Dr Adil El Tayar, who was originally from Sudan and himself an early casualty of Covid-19. With two doctors among his children, how do they all come to terms with the enormity of the tragedy that has befallen them and the professional dilemmas they face? With most people in the UK now required to wear face coverings on public transport, many are learning to reach for them alongside keys and bags before leaving home. But it's not much of an adjustment for Vincent Ni, who's long seen how masks are commonplace in East Asia and has consequently been ahead of the game. Has your lockdown involved a clear-out? It's been part of Gillian Powell's experience as she finally decided to tackle a vast photo collection accumulated in boxes over decades. Some tough choices over what to keep have needed to be made, but there's also been laughter along the way. While steps are being taken to ease the lockdown on the UK mainland, in the Channel Islands Guernsey is moving quickly ahead with its pandemic exit strategy. Local people - no outside visitors yet - can start to take big steps back towards life as it was. But, as BBC reporter Frank Hersey explains, the process comes with a few headaches. And lockdown has brought many more people than usual onto one of England's most ancient pathways - the Icknield Way. BBC London's Environment Correspondent, Tom Edwards, knows it well as a cyclist but there's now a new etiquette to using this amenity... or at least it's a work in progress. Producer: Simon Coates

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.

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Thank you for downloading from our home correspondent on BBC Radio 4.

0:10.0

I'm Michelle Hussein.

0:12.0

Our pieces this time include the correspondent who has been ahead of the rest of us on face coverings and who has plentiful supplies being sent in by family and friends in East Asia.

0:22.0

We've got comfortable in a Herefordshire garden

0:25.2

shed as another correspondent gets to grips with her vast photo collection.

0:29.8

We're in Guernsey trying to keep up with the pace of its emergence from lockdown

0:35.0

and the cyclists who've had to learn to share an age-old countryside trail

0:40.0

with a new set of walkers.

0:44.2

We begin though with one story of the pandemic.

0:48.0

Dr Adir Altaire was one of the early fatalities.

0:51.5

He'd come to the UK from Sudan and dedicated years of his life to the NHS.

0:57.0

Like many who tread a similar path, he kept in close touch with home,

1:01.0

even as his children were forging their own lives here.

1:05.0

Emir Nader has spent time with them as part of a film he's made for BBC Arabic.

1:11.0

The Altayor family were unable to say goodbye to their father Adel when he succumbed to

1:16.4

COVID-19 in a London hospital. They also even weren't able to be in the same country as

1:22.0

him when he was laid to rest in a humble

1:24.2

grave in Sudan, his country of birth. There he's mourned as a hero. The name Adel Al-Tayur might be known to you. He was the 63-year-old doctor who returned to volunteer on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis,

1:46.0

and became the first NHS surgeon to lose his life after contracting the disease.

1:51.0

Ten days after that, a colleague and I stood nearby as Ahsman,

1:57.0

30 years old and a doctor himself, with Rahma,

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