Where Are You Going? - New York

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

One question - Where are you going? - yields countless surprises about the lives of strangers. We hear from a pigeon-catching drug addict, a woman who is married to her cat, a man dicing with death in his day job and a mother who is travelling to see her daughter who has cancer. "It's not supposed to be that way round" she says. These unpredictable encounters come together to create a unique and fascinating audio portrait of New York City.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Thank you for downloading from the BBC.
0:04.0	The details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use, go to BBCWorldServis.com slash podcasts. Hi, from BBC World Service, I'm asking people where they're going.
0:24.6	Where are you going on your moped?
0:26.1	I'm heading to work in Crown Heights.
0:28.8	June 2015 and a seriously hot New York sidewalk.
0:36.0	I'm going to this building right here 919 3rd Avenue.
0:38.0	What do you do in there? I'm a lawyer, but unfortunately I have to run. I believe for an appointment. Thank you.
0:44.0	And behind every interrupted journey is a portal into somebody's life.
0:51.0	Where is it? And you got an appointment I overheard.
0:57.0	I'm very amazing.
0:58.0	What's your appointment for if you do my mom's going to do?
1:00.0	To a dentist.
1:02.0	For who? For you or for you? No, it's a
1:03.6	cleaning for her. But I accompany her everywhere she goes.
1:06.6	You subtle lung transplant.
1:08.0	I'm Catherine Carr, and as I watch all of these people going about their everyday business, going from A to B,
1:14.8	milling around from one corner to the next, I want to know more. I'm intrigued. I want to find
1:20.8	out the poetry in the mundane, find the extraordinary behind the ordinary.
1:25.0	So I'm just going to get stuck in. I'm going to ask, where are you going?
1:31.0	Oh, we're going to my nephew's graduation.
1:34.0	Wow, big day.
1:36.0	Big day, every big day.
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