Searching for Tobias
Seriously...
BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2016
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In 2008 Chloe Hadjimatheou was covering Barack Obama's first election campaign when she came across a 15 year old black boy in a Mississippi trailer park. Back then the young Tobias was full of potential and had big dreams of becoming a policeman. 8 years later, Chloe goes in search of him to find what became of him. Did Tobias ever fulfil his wishes and has he prospered in Obama's America?
Produced and presented by Chloe Hadjimatheou Editor: Penny Murphy.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:05.8 | Eight years ago, 2008. |
| 0:08.9 | Where were you? |
| 0:12.1 | I was 19 and I had just started at Reading University. I was studying English with |
| 0:17.1 | film and theatre studies and I was probably sitting in my tiny room surrounded by my |
| 0:22.3 | posters of Family Guy and Reservoir. my I had a career in mind I wanted to go into publishing and it was all very exciting and very new and so many opportunities |
| 0:38.1 | felt like they were coming my way. |
| 0:41.5 | Okay, so maybe not everything went to plan. I obviously don't work in publishing, but I don't think that I strayed too far from the path that I laid out for myself all those years ago. |
| 0:53.3 | In the last eight years we've been introduced to Walter White and we've gone |
| 0:56.8 | Gaga over a meat dress. |
| 0:58.9 | Kagnay interrupted Taylor. |
| 1:00.9 | We've read 50 shades, sent emojies, and swiped right, or maybe left. |
| 1:06.2 | Global Recession, the Arab Spring, Charlie Hebdo, the Olympics, London and Brazil, and the first black president of the United States has come |
| 1:16.3 | and is going. |
| 1:17.3 | He's a character, let me say that. |
| 1:19.5 | He is a funny guy. |
| 1:21.9 | He can make you laugh even if you don't have a laugh. |
| 1:25.0 | That's Rose talking about her brother Tobias. |
| 1:28.0 | This episode is about how those years, the Obama years, worked out for him. |
| 1:33.0 | From BBC Radio 4, I'm Riana Dylan and this is seriously. |
| 1:39.0 | And Chloe Hadjamathieu is searching for Tobias. |
| 1:45.0 | This is a story about an ordinary kid with big dreams. |
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