Living with power cuts

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Around the world, millions of people live with daily electricity blackouts. In recent days in South Africa, protesters – angry that the electricity keeps going off – marched through Johannesburg and Cape Town. Three women in South Africa share their experiences of their daily struggles to get everything done before the power goes off. Two business owners, in Sri Lanka and Nigeria, come together to discuss the financial impact of power cuts.

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0:00.0	Love, Genessa, a brand new true crime podcast
0:03.4	from the BBC World Service and CBC podcasts.
0:07.0	It's a story about love, deceit and survival,
0:10.2	and it's available now.
0:12.0	Find out more at the end of this podcast.
0:17.6	Hello, I'm James Reynolds.
0:19.0	Welcome to BBC Earth Conversations on Living with PowerCuts.
0:24.0	Around the world, millions of you live
0:26.0	with the reality of electricity blackouts.
0:28.2	In many cases, it happens every single day.
0:31.2	We bring together three women from South Africa
0:33.2	where the power company is struggling to keep the lights on.
0:36.2	We also hear from people running businesses in Nigeria and Sri Lanka
0:40.2	and a yoga teacher offers us some wise sage advice.
0:45.2	Breathe, you have to breathe.
0:46.2	A yoga teacher's us to let go and accept
0:49.2	some of the difficulties and hardships of life.
0:52.2	So it's kind of what I've been teaching since COVID actually.
0:55.2	A theme that runs through all the conversations
0:59.2	with all of our guests is frustration.
1:02.2	Frustration with creaking energy infrastructure
1:05.2	and the inadequate response from various governments.
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