From Our Home Correspondent 22/09/2019

From Our Own Correspondent

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🗓️ 22 September 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country.

Tom Edwards meets two people counting the cost – literally – of a delayed major infrastructure project and discovers whether they will be able to survive until it is finally finished. Hannah Moore ruminates on her twelfth move before she has even reached her thirtieth birthday and the contrast between her parents’ long settled East Midlands’ life and her own constantly changing one. After a heart-stopping moment on the cricket field of her son's school - and an emergency operation - Geeta Guru-Murthy considers the domestic costs of intense competitiveness. Richard Vadon takes his teenage son and his friends to a covers band gig - only to find that most of the others there are his age rather than his son’s. But the reason why says much, he says, about the contemporary music scene. And while nothing quite prepared Francesca Segal for her experience of a neonatal intensive care unit, she reflects what it has taught her about motherhood and family life.

Producer: Simon Coates

Transcript

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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.
0:08.0	We're all about families this time, the very start of life for premature babies and everything that is required
0:15.2	to look after them by their parents and others, the drama of watching children play sport when things
0:21.1	can and do go wrong. One correspondent finally clears out her
0:26.7	childhood bedroom and another finds that his teenage musical passion is back in vogue at home.
0:34.0	First, the predicament of people let down by the over-optimism of those running big infrastructure projects.
0:41.0	London's crossrail is the latest in the country to see completion dates come and go and costs sore.
0:48.0	Often executives who made the original promises move on,
0:52.0	leaving people who might have made life-changing decisions
0:55.2	based on them to deal with the consequences of delay.
0:59.5	BBC London's transport correspondent Tom Edwards has been talking to two people in that
1:04.0	position and he begins near the Kent borders.
1:07.3	You sense it felt like a betrayal. We're in the front office of Nimbadir's small minicab company in Abbey Wood.
1:16.5	He looks stressed and upset.
1:19.5	It's a warm day and he opens the door to create a breeze. He's explaining to me why a map of crossrail hangs
1:26.6	on the wall. I wanted this to become a transport hub, he says proudly, casting his eye around the office.
1:34.8	All the passengers would come off the new trains into here.
1:39.7	But instead, he tells me, someone has pulled the handbrake.
1:45.3	The people of Abbey Wood are friendly, but the area has known better days.
1:50.5	The new line was meant to attract more investment into the area and help its growth.
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