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Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Hassan Akkad

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Arts, Society & Culture

4.53.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

James O'Brien is joined this week by Syrian refugee and BAFTA-winning filmmaker Hassan Akkad

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0:00.0

This summer there's someone very special coming to Poulton's Park.

0:06.0

Be among the first to meet Evie Pig, Pepper's brand new baby sister.

0:13.0

Eby is making her very first appearance every day during August.

0:19.0

Yippie!

0:23.9

Don't miss your chance to say hello.

0:28.5

Snap a photo and share the smiles at Pepper Pig World.

0:32.3

Book your family day out today at Paltonspark.com.

0:35.5

And be part of Evie's Big Hello.

0:37.5

Paltons Park! Home of Pepper Big Hello. Poulton Park.

0:39.7

Home of Pepper Big World.

0:43.0

This is a global original podcast.

0:48.6

Hello and welcome to another special lockdown edition of Full Disclosure,

0:52.9

a podcast project originally conceived to let me meet and spend time with people that might ordinarily be quite difficult to

0:54.8

access. Obviously, things aren't quite working out like that at the moment. I am, however, delighted

1:00.1

to tell you that my guest this week is Hassan Akad, who may not be a household name in many households,

1:06.2

but has achieved rather more in the context of the coronavirus crisis and indeed the, what would you

1:13.9

call them, the deceptions or certainly the disarray that's typified Boris Johnson's government.

1:19.4

We will get to that towards the end of the interview.

1:23.2

Hassan is the man working currently as a hospital cleaner who called upon the Prime Minister to reverse

1:28.8

the policy that would see his relatives receive nothing in compensation, were he to die

1:34.3

from the infection that he contracted in the hospital, while doctors and nurses and other healthcare

1:40.1

professionals would have seen their kin properly rewarded. But we should begin, Hassan, at the beginning.

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