Where are you going? - London

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Catherine Carr talks to people on the move in London. From the American who left her young children on the other side of the Atlantic, and the Russian buying Soviet propaganda posters at a tube station, to a ‘born and bred’ Londoner who protests that “we all voted out, we should be out”. With the original date for Brexit just days away, we find out what is really on people’s minds.

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0:00.0	Hello Tim Harford here from 50 Things that Made the Modern Economy.
0:03.6	We've just launched season 2 of 50 Things, along with a new podcast called 30 Animals
0:08.6	that Made Us smarter. Check them both out when you finish this one.
0:11.6	Bye.
0:14.0	It's early March 2019 and I'm in London, England
0:20.0	where negotiations around Brexit are still ongoing,
0:23.4	and people just do not know what is going to happen.
0:27.1	My name is Catherine Carr,
0:32.0	and with all that going on on I'm here with my microphone
0:34.8	stopping strangers in the street and asking them where are you going?
0:40.8	We're going the dis-shoo in just down the road.
0:44.0	Delivering?
0:45.0	Delivering, yeah, yeah.
0:47.0	The keys?
0:48.0	Oh, it's all the keys for the restaurants.
0:50.0	The whole of this solo is the key for it.
0:53.0	Wow, that must be worth fortune.
0:54.0	Yeah, yeah, it must be, yeah.
0:55.0	What time do you start work?
0:57.0	3 in the morning?
0:58.0	Are you perky? Yeah, yeah, it's home soon, that's why. My one simple question opens up an endless world of answers.
1:07.0	Excuse me?
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