Love In The Time Of Corona: Stories of community support through food
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Every day, with the UK on 'lock-down' as part of government measures to halt the spread of Covid-19, we're hearing inspirational tales of community groups and volunteer services springing up to help others - very often, through food.
Over the course of this programme, Sheila Dillon and Dan Saladino - chatting remotely from their respective lock-down locations - hear from just a small selection of the incredible community efforts going on across the country, supporting the most vulnerable during the outbreak: from delivering essentials to the ill and the elderly, confined to their homes; to providing meals for hospital staff working long shifts in Intensive Care Units; to supporting children missing out on their regular free school dinners.
This episode is not only a recognition of the ingenious solutions being found - but also looks at how these local strategies, developed in response to a national crisis, could help change our food system for the better in future.
Presented by Sheila Dillon and Dan Saladino, and produced in Bristol by Lucy Taylor.
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| 0:50.0 | Hello? |
| 0:52.0 | Dan, can you see me? Can you hear me? |
| 0:54.0 | Sheila, I can. I can see you and hear you. |
| 0:57.0 | And I haven't seen you for weeks and weeks. |
| 1:00.0 | How are you? |
| 1:02.0 | I'm fine, you know, I'm in this strange situation. How are you? I'm fine, you know, I'm in this strange situation. How are you? |
| 1:05.3 | Well, I'm talking to you from home and you're perched on a screen on top of a pile of cookbooks. |
| 1:10.8 | So you're in a good position. Where both of us and the nation you know in lockdown it's now been more than three weeks and |
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