ICYMI - Skye Fitzgerald on "Hunger Ward"

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🗓️ 19 April 2021

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Director Skye Fitzgerald discusses his Oscar-nominated documentary short film "Hunger Ward," which highlights how children in war-torn Yemen are facing the world's worst famine in decades. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:02.6	Now!
0:04.1	SkyFitch Gerald, welcome to the Daily Social Distancing Show.
0:08.4	I'm so happy to be here, Trevor, and I have to tell you a South African friend of mine
0:12.0	said I should say, this lacca to start off with.
0:15.2	I hope I got that right.
0:17.0	That should mean like it's cool, right?
0:19.0	No, you have just cursed my entire family and generations to follow.
0:23.0	That's what you have done.
0:24.0	Yes, no, you did say it pretty well actually.
0:26.8	That's lacca, which means things are good.
0:30.1	The reason you're on the show is because you have been nominated once again for an amazing
0:35.8	documentary show that you have put together.
0:39.4	Once again, it is a story about something that is taking place in one of the most harrowing
0:44.9	situations in the world right now and that is in Yemen.
0:48.8	Some people might hear about Yemen, they might hear about Saudi Arabia, the US, etc.
0:52.4	But what exactly is happening on the ground right now?
0:56.4	Well, there was a civil war that started in 2014 and Saudi Arabia intervened very quickly
1:06.8	in that war, mostly with a bombing campaign over the north of the country.
1:10.5	And since then, there's been an air and sea blockade over most of the country, preventing
1:16.2	foodstuffs, medicine, and diesel from flowing freely in the country.
1:20.7	This has resulted in what's known as a human-caused famine.
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