Sally Mann - Hope in Lockdown (N217)

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4.7 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Just a few weeks into lockdown, the world already felt unfamiliar. In this episode—our first recorded during the pandemic—we speak with sociologist and Baptist minister , based in London’s East End. Sally shares how her local community, marked...

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The The
0:23.6	The The
0:40.3	The The world feels very quiet.
1:03.0	The pubs and the shops and the cafes are empty.
1:08.0	The supermarkets are full and then empty and then full.
1:13.6	Nurses and doctors are working long shifts behind their white masks.
1:19.6	Some people are taking walks while they can.
1:21.6	Some people have no choice but to stay totally confined to their homes.
1:26.6	Some people are working all hours and other people have lost their work altogether.
1:32.3	Some people are on ventilators and some have left us.
1:37.3	Some people are singing songs across the streets to try and lift us.
1:42.3	And the buds are try and lift us.
1:45.0	The buds are opening and the birds are singing.
1:50.0	A little bit louder than they used to. This tired old piano had been dismantled and its bare skeleton was left stood outside the front of the building.
2:16.6	It still sounds good.
2:22.3	So it's good to be chatting with you.
2:25.3	I'm Sally Mann. I'm a Baptist minister and one of the spokespeople for Red Letter Christians,
2:30.3	but I'm here in my own community in Bonnie Downs in the east end of London.
2:36.3	And Bonnie Downs is a community of communities. So we're a worshipping church, we're a Baptist church,
2:42.9	with a fairly regular congregation, but full of quite irregular people. But we were also, 20 years
2:49.5	ago, set up a charity called Bonnie Downs Community
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