Rewriting the script(ure) | Pindrop

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🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Nearly 400 years ago, a tiny town in Germany made a bargain with God: spare its people from the Black Plague and we'll put on a play in your honor... forever. And it worked! Now every decade, the entire town comes together to stage the play, drawing massive crowds to one of the largest religious spectacles in the world. But problematic parts of the play have been challenged, and tensions rise when a new voice tries to update a 2,000-year-old story with help from some unexpected allies. (Audio only)

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Elise Hugh, host of TED Talks Daily.
0:06.7	Ted is actually on vacation this week, so you're going to hear something a little different today.
0:11.0	A new podcast from Ted called Pindrop.
0:13.8	In each episode, hosts Salim Reschamwala journeys across the globe to find the most surprising ideas from each place.
0:23.0	Coming up is our first episode from a tiny town in Germany called Oberama Gau. The story is 400 years old, but it's remarkably
0:29.4	timely. It's about a town that wanted God to spare it from the black plague and the promises
0:34.7	the townsfolk made way back then that have lasted until today.
0:39.1	But not without some modern bumps in the road. For the first full season, find Pindrop
0:44.1	wherever you listen to podcasts. The year is 1633. The black plague is all over Europe.
0:56.8	People are dying by the thousands.
1:01.4	You're in a tiny Catholic village nestled deep in the German Alps.
1:11.6	You've closed your borders, isolated yourself from the world, but somehow the sickness got in.
1:14.6	And now your neighbors are dying.
1:20.6	Filled with fear, you turn to the only one who you believe can help you, God.
1:24.6	And you tell him that if he protects your town from this plague, you will show your commitment and gratitude by putting on a play for him
1:29.5	forever. So your little town does what it can and puts on a play about Jesus. And according to legend,
1:38.1	the town is spared. No one else dies from the plague.
1:44.9	In that town, a very real place in the Bavarian Mountains by the name of Oberommergau,
1:50.2	kept doing this play about every 10 years for the next 400 years.
1:56.7	Along the way, it turned into a massive international spectacle, a performance staged
2:00.8	by almost
2:01.3	half a town, more than 2,000 actors, half a million spectators from around the world every
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