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🗓️ 27 June 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
0:05.0 | Good morning. |
0:06.4 | Today to South America, which is still grappling |
0:09.3 | with a high rate of pandemic infections, |
0:12.2 | and in Colombia there are extra problems for those who fled |
0:15.4 | across the border from Venezuela's chaos. The time of year when you're |
0:20.0 | anticipating that flight to holiday happiness. Our correspondent has been |
0:25.8 | experiencing the realities of today's airports. It's not exactly enticing. |
0:31.3 | And a new life, a baby girl born in America, leading to her father, our |
0:37.4 | correspondent to reflect on a country he loves, but perhaps a country with an uncertain future. |
0:45.6 | First to Italy, and many weeks ago the focus of world attention, as the infection rate |
0:51.1 | climbed and the ambulance sirens echoed in ancient towns and hilltop |
0:56.1 | villages especially in the northern region of Lombardy. One town even earned the unwanted title as the Wuhan of the West. |
1:05.0 | As elsewhere, there are major efforts to find out what went wrong, |
1:09.5 | and Mark Lowen has been seeking the answer in Lombardy. |
1:14.2 | I don't know if you'll remember her. |
1:16.9 | You'll have heard so many stories of families ripped apart by the pandemic |
1:21.7 | that even you loyal listeners will feel they blend into each other. |
1:26.6 | But I told you about her on this program in March, a month after coronavirus first throttled |
1:32.1 | Italy when it seemed like the horror would never end. |
1:36.0 | Her name Miriam Kazali from the northern region of Lombardy. |
1:40.6 | When her mother, Giuseppeina, collapsed from the virus while on holiday in Genoa, |
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