Togetherness: Coronavirus Global Conversations - Dealing with grief
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Shaye in the US, Ana in Spain and Elliot in the UK remember the parents they have lost to Covid-19 and the impact it is having on their lives. African Americans in New York, Massachusetts and Georgia consider why black communities in the United States are suffering so much during this health emergency. While social distancing meant Liat and Amir in Israel and Emine and Jon in the UK had to rip up their original wedding plans and come up with new ways to get married.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Nulam McGovran and we're bringing you coronavirus global conversations here on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.0 | As the number of deaths from the pandemic increases across the globe, we bring the warmth of humanity to the coldness of statistics. |
| 0:19.0 | Three men and women share how they're dealing with bereavement under extraordinary |
| 0:23.0 | circumstances. Plus, fears in the United States that there's a |
| 0:26.9 | negative racial element to the virus affecting people of color. |
| 0:30.9 | In the absence of equality we have to of |
| 0:33.3 | equality. We have to forge our own ways to save our own lives. |
| 0:40.8 | The last few weeks and months have seen millions of people's plans cancelled, put on hold or |
| 0:46.0 | rearranged. But not everyone wants to let a pandemic get in the way of getting married, |
| 0:51.2 | especially when it's been a long time in the making. And the wedding of of Liette and Amir who live close to Tel Aviv in Israel. |
| 0:58.0 | It went ahead this month as planned, albeit downsized considerably, from 500 guests to 10. We introduced them to John and |
| 1:05.8 | Emina a UK couple just a few days before their planned wedding. We're going to |
| 1:11.0 | have a ceremony that we're streaming via Facebook live from our dining room and then |
| 1:16.7 | we're going to also have a disco in the evening that our DJ is going to stream through Facebook as well |
| 1:22.3 | and then we're just going to have like other |
| 1:24.6 | things that we're doing throughout the day like having a meal and then like going for |
| 1:28.7 | a walk together because neither of us have been out of the house for three weeks now so we think we deserve it. |
| 1:35.2 | That's great and how many people are going to your wedding virtually? |
| 1:39.8 | About 45 to 50 I think? |
| 1:42.4 | Probably more. Yeah. about 45 to 50 I think probably more yeah that is going to be it going to be an |
| 1:47.0 | awful lot of muting that needs to happen on that call and will you have anybody with you, I mean beside you physically? |
| 1:55.6 | No, no. |
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