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The Documentary Podcast

The bread line

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

From the fields of Ukraine to a bakery in Beirut, we find out what it costs to produce a global staple - bread.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:07.4

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0:09.6

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0:12.8

and goes in search of the answers.

0:14.6

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0:18.0

Find out more at the end of this podcast.

0:20.2

That is incredibly clever.

0:24.6

You're listening to the BBC World Service.

0:27.0

I'm Daniel Gordon and this is the breadline.

0:30.4

Over the next hour, you're going to be hearing from the men and women whose job, in normal times,

0:35.8

is to produce and transport a huge proportion of the wheat the world uses to make bread.

0:43.2

They live and work in Ukraine.

0:45.2

The world's fifth biggest exporter of wheat.

0:48.2

But of course, these aren't normal times in Ukraine.

0:52.4

They haven't been since Russia began what it calls its special military operation there, back in February.

0:59.0

President Putin has launched a big military offensive against Ukraine.

1:04.2

Russian troops and armour have cross-borders from the north, the east and the south.

1:08.6

Today at one where live in the Ukrainian capital Kiev,

1:12.0

with reports that Russian troops have reached the outer end.

1:15.2

Russian and Ukrainian armies are fighting fierce battles in several places close to Ukraine's capital Kiev

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