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🗓️ 3 November 2016
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Gavin Lee documents the final days of France’s notorious migrant camp, meeting inhabitants from as far afield as Gambia and Afghanistan to ask what the future holds for them now.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to assignment on the BBC World Service. |
0:04.0 | So, with a Sudanese party going on inside there tonight. |
0:08.0 | Should we have a look inside, see what's going on? |
0:10.0 | Yeah, why not? |
0:12.0 | Sudanese music in a Sudanese party. |
0:15.0 | This is not Sudan. |
0:17.0 | It's Europe. |
0:18.0 | On the north coast of France, a short ferry ride from the British coast. |
0:22.0 | This is the Calais Jungle, from a few |
0:25.5 | tenths on a former chemical dumping ground near the port to a huge functioning |
0:29.8 | camp that attracted nearly 10,000 migrants from all over the world, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Iraq, |
0:37.0 | Afghanistan, Syria, Gambia, all with one aim to reach the UK by whatever means. |
0:43.0 | Maybe when someone went to UK, |
0:46.0 | they're making for him party. |
0:48.0 | So if somebody made it to the UK, they celebrate. |
0:51.0 | And tonight, somebody's made it. |
0:53.0 | Maybe somebody made it. |
0:55.0 | I'm Gavin Lee and I've reported from the jungle ever since it first appeared two years ago, |
1:02.0 | a place of both desperation and opportunism, |
1:05.2 | where aid workers desires to help those in distress, were mixed with routine theft and |
1:09.4 | violence. |
1:10.6 | Last week, it all came to an end. This is how the last days unfolded. |
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