Summer with Greta
Seriously...
BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2020
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Everywhere she goes, people ask for selfies and tell her how wonderful she is. But what’s it really like to be the world’s most famous climate campaigner when you’re still a teenager? In this revelatory personal essay which she wrote for Swedish Radio, Greta Thunberg describes her journey to deliver a speech at the UN General Assembly, observing the effects of climate change first-hand, her encounters with both powerful and ordinary people and a terrifying trip in a yacht across the Atlantic.
This Swedish Radio production is introduced by Justin Rowlatt, the BBC's chief environment correspondent, and Greta's essay is interspersed with excerpts of her favourite music.
Producer: Mattias Österlund Sound engineer/technician Lisa Abrahamsson
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm Justin Rolat, the BBC's Chief Environment correspondent, and this is seriously from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:47.6 | In this special edition of the podcast, Greta Tumburg reflects on her extraordinary year of travel and campaigning. |
| 0:54.7 | From arriving at the UN headquarters in New York last September, where she made her now famous, |
| 0:59.7 | How Dare You Speech, right up to lockdown, when everything was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. |
| 1:06.4 | This personal essay recorded for Swedish radio features some of Greta's favourite music. |
| 1:12.0 | I hope you enjoy it. Chapter 1, the UN Speech. |
| 1:18.4 | The first thing I see when I enter the United Nations Headquarters Building in New York City is Roxy, my dog. |
| 1:26.3 | The two of us are projected onto a large screen which apparently is part of an international |
| 1:31.3 | art exhibition. |
| 1:33.0 | When I see her brown Labrador eyes, it almost feels as if she was here with me. |
| 1:39.0 | Suddenly I'm reminded of how much I miss her. |
| 1:44.0 | Today is September 23rd, 2019, |
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