From Our Home Correspondent 17/11/2019

From Our Own Correspondent

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🗓️ 17 November 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers reflecting the range of contemporary life in the United Kingdom. Dan Johnson reports direct from the flooded River Don in South Yorkshire where feelings are running high among locals about the response to the latest inundation. As the rain returns after an all-too-brief respite, he reflects on the area's carbon-generating past and the effects of climate change. In Hartlepool, the BBC's Social Affairs Correspondent, Michael Buchanan, hears from a mother and father about their twenty year-long struggle with the corrosive effects on their domestic life and their position in the local community of their sons' misuse of drugs. We visit Walthamstow in north-east London in the company of Emma Levine. She talks to customers and staff of a long-standing local daytime eatery which at night converts into a cocktail bar that attracts an entirely different clientele. Will the two businesses thrive together? BBC Cymru Wales's Garry Owen visits Parc prison in Bridgend to learn about a pioneering project designed to foster the all-important bonds between prisoners and their children. He hears what inmates - and their relatives - think of the programme and how successful it is proving to be. And Stephanie Power, who has a love-hate relationship with the UK's capital city, explains how a recent visit to London brought out the conflicted nature of her view of the metropolis. Producer: Simon Coates

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds.
0:02.0	Thank you for downloading from our home correspondent from BBC Radio 4.
0:06.0	I'm Michelle Hussein and our pieces this time include two tales of children and parents.
0:12.0	One is about a couple in Hartlepool who've had to live with
0:14.9	their son's addiction for the last 20 years, while we also hear about a Welsh jail which is finding
0:21.2	new ways for its prisoners to have more contact with their children.
0:26.0	We're on the high street to see two different ways of using the same premises by day and by night.
0:31.6	And we have one correspondence love hate relationship with London.
0:37.0	We begin though with the flooding and how people in one badly affected part of England
0:42.2	are trying to cope as water levels bring normal life to a standstill, destroy possessions and pose a threat to livelihoods and even to life.
0:52.0	Dan Johnson has spent the last week in South Yorkshire, thinking about
0:56.1	not only extreme weather and climate change, but also the area's historic association with fossil
1:02.3	fuels.
1:03.0	Shivering in a foot of water, James Schofield looked a picture of absolute despair.
1:09.0	He yanked open his swollen front door for the first time in five days and showed us the misery of a life now lived in floodwater.
1:18.0	Barefoot, with his trousers rolled up to his knees, James looked like he might have been off to paddle at the
1:23.7	seaside, but trudging through to the kitchen was bracing enough. His shins shone
1:29.1	pink in the stone-cold murk. He'd had no power, no heating, and no light since he and his neighbors were swamped by the Surging River Don.
1:39.0	Because these homes rely on septic tanks in place of main sewers, he couldn't even flush the toilet.
1:45.4	This was the dank stinking reality of Fish Lake's furthest reaches.
1:50.6	Why don't you leave, I asked, go to one of the refuge centres to stay dry.
1:55.0	James listed his pets, two pit bulls, a goshawk, an African grey parrot and ferrets.
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