Where are you going? - Cardiff

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Cardiff in early February is freezing cold but the people have a warm welcome. Catherine Carr meets strangers in the city of Cardiff to find out what people here feeling in the weeks before Brexit. What’s on their minds? At a time of such unprecedented political flux, the simple device of her one question - where are you going? - will work to uncover some of that in people's lives.

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0:00.0	The flustered woman runs into a railway station and urgently scans the departure board.
0:15.0	Have you ever wondered what brought them to this point?
0:18.0	I do all the time.
0:21.0	My name is Catherine Carr and I'm really, really interested in other people's lives.
0:27.6	For the BBC World Service, I've travelled to Wintry Cardiff in Wales to stop perfect strangers on their way from A to B
0:35.1	and invite them to share their stories with me. It all starts by asking one simple
0:40.8	question. Where are you going?
0:43.0	I'm going to my mums.
0:45.0	Is that a regular thing?
0:47.0	On a what day are we Thursday?
0:49.0	Yeah. What happens on a Thursday?
0:50.0	I get fed.
0:52.0	Oh, I'm delivering my fish today I'm delivering my fish around the city.
0:57.6	Where does it come from?
0:59.2	I'm Ashton's fishmongers in the market. What's the most delicious fish in your opinion?
1:05.0	Oh, my favorite, I've got to say is a heak.
1:08.0	You can't go wrong with heak.
1:10.0	It gets me out of the dog house when I take some home.
1:13.0	Nice to meet you.
1:14.0	Nice to meet you. Excuse me? Just asking people where they're going and you were walking at quite a lick.
1:32.1	Oh I'm going into town to people where they're going and you were walking at quite a lick.
1:32.6	Oh, I'm going into town to exchange a game.
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