SATURDAY 23 MAY 2020

SAT 01:00 BBC News (w172x5nr3gf0xhp)
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SAT 01:06 Business Matters (w172x18qvs7fcxd)
Global business news, with live guests and contributions from Asia and the USA.


SAT 02:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv008qs4)
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SAT 02:06 WorklifeIndia (w3cszvgp)
Managing work-life after lockdown

As governments across the world ease lockdown restrictions, more and more people are now returning to work. In India, too, this week marks the start of considerable relaxation in the lockdown, which has been in effect since 24 March. Industries and businesses are making a cautious start with stringent health and safety regulations in place. Some have opted for staggered working hours, while others are going for flexible shifts.

But with the threat from the pandemic far from over, returning to work is not easy. For many, concerns remain. What about the risk of contracting the coronavirus once back in the workplace? And what about financial security, as cash strapped companies go for huge salary cuts or pink slips to staff? A recent study indicates as many as 93% of India Inc employees are anxious about returning to work over health and financial concerns.

So, in this edition of WorklifeIndia, we talk about how to manage work-life after the lockdown.

Presenter: Devina Gupta

Contributors: Muralikrishnan B, COO, Xiaomi India; Neha Bagaria, founder and CEO, JobsForHer; Dr Shyam Bhat, psychiatrist and trustee, The Live Love Laugh Foundation


SAT 02:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pl8qlz31j)
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SAT 02:32 Stumped (w3cszhj4)
Cricket, but not as we know it

The latest on cricket's return to the field of play. As the game introduces unprecedented measures to ensure the safety of players, will India agree to tour Sri Lanka - and will the West Indies deem it safe enough to travel to England in July?

Plus, how a cricket tour of Britain in 1911 pointed the way towards an independent India.

And table cricket on Table Mountain.

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SAT 03:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv008vj8)
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SAT 03:06 The Fifth Floor (w3cszjh0)
The reporter who gave away his shoes

Salman Ravi was interviewing migrant workers in a Facebook live for BBC Hindi last week. India's rapid lockdown left hundreds of thousands without jobs or income, many left with no choice but to walk the hundreds of kilometres home. While interviewing one family Salman saw the man had no shoes. So he handed over his own. The video’s been viewed more than 22 million times, but the story didn’t stop there.

In China, Wuhan-based writer FangFang has enraged many of her fellow citizens with her blog about daily life under lockdown. They accuse her of providing opponents of China with more ammunition. BBC Chinese editor Howard Zhang explains the background.

And from Somalia how the grounding of international flights has left khat chewers without their favourite stimulant, as the leaf is usually flown in from Kenya. But anti-khat campaigners hope the lockdown proves permanent. Mohamed Harare of BBC Somali has been following the story.

Arrest of Rwanda’s most wanted fugitives
Last weekend one of Rwanda’s most wanted men was arrested in France. Felicien Kabuga is alleged to be the main financier of the ethnic Hutu extremists who slaughtered 800,000 people in the 1994 genocide. Prudent Ngsengiyumva from BBC Kinyarwanda was following developments over the weekend.

Honeyland
The documentary film Honeyland is set in a small village in North Macedonia, and tells the story of one of Europe's last wild beekeepers. It got two nominations at this year’s Oscars, a first for the country. Tijana Dusej of BBC Serbian tells us what makes the film so captivating.

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
The head of the World Health Organisation is probably the world's most famous Ethiopian right now. Dr Tedros Adhanom has been in the news almost continuously since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Hana Zeratsyon of BBC Tigrinya tells us how he's seen back home.


SAT 03:50 Witness History (w3cszmtw)
Britain's World War Two crime wave

During times of crisis in the UK, World War Two is often remembered as a period when the country rallied together to fight a common enemy. British politicians still refer to the so-called "Blitz Spirit" when calling for national unity. But as Simon Watts has been finding out from the BBC archives, there was a crime wave during the war years, with a massive increase in looting and black marketeering.

PHOTO: A government poster from World War Two (Getty Images)


SAT 04:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv008z8d)
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SAT 04:06 The Real Story (w3cszcmw)
Covid-19: Balancing risk and staying human

Many governments are beginning to ease restrictions placed on us aimed at containing the spread of the coronavirus. Until a vaccine is widely available, the fear of contracting Covid-19 and becoming seriously ill as a result, will remain a very real one. And as more schools, shops and workplaces begin to re-open, we’re all increasingly going to have to make decisions about the amount of risk we’re willing to take. Our fear of threats and the unknown is part of being human. But so too is our desire to hug our loved ones and meet new people. And yet these once ordinary social activities are now tainted by risk. Will we decide to abandon them? Many parents fear sending their children back to school, but may also worry whether staying at home will harm their education. How should they weigh up the risks? Staying at home for months on end may reduce the risk of becoming infected with the virus, but what are the risks to mental health from taking that more cautious approach? As the lockdowns end, how will managing risk and overcoming fear affect how we live? How will it affect what we understand to be rational, to be normal, and to be human?


SAT 05:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv00930j)
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SAT 05:06 The Newsroom (w172x7b3tx4vvfn)
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SAT 05:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pl8qlzg8x)
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SAT 05:32 Trending (w3cszvrq)
Inside the world of the meninists

On Facebook and Reddit, they’ve collected hundreds of thousands of members with their criticisms of feminism and campaigning on a range of gender issues.

We’ve visited the International Conference on Men’s Issues in Chicago to meet the internet personalities driving the men’s rights movement.
They say they’re looking out for men and boys. But their critics claim this conference is just a “gathering of insecure and sexist man-babies”.

So what’s the truth - who are the men’s rights activists?

Presenter: Mike Wendling
Reporter: Jonathan Griffin

Picture credit: BBC


SAT 05:50 The Big Idea (w3csxfjc)
Memory wars

Many criminal court cases rest on eye-witness accounts of what happened. There’s a problem though. Elizabeth Loftus – one of the world’s most influential psychologists – has shown in numerous experiments that memory is not nearly as reliable as we once believed. It is easy to alter memories. It’s even quite easy to implant entirely false memories – making people believe they remember something which never occurred.

Presented by David Edmonds

(Photo: Brain and eraser, Photo credit: Shutterstock)


SAT 06:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv0096rn)
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SAT 06:06 The Documentary (w3ct0pf0)
New York Stories with Joe Pascal

New York stories with Joe Pascal

A hundred years ago the Harlem Renaissance was in full swing. It was a booming time for African-American culture and the neighbourhood was buzzing. Today, we pay tribute to Harlem, through music, poetry and food.

The story of how chef Marcus Samuelsson made Harlem his home is nothing short of remarkable. He was born in a tiny village in Ethiopia, too small to even appear on maps. Aged two, he contracted TB. His mum carried him for 75 miles to the capital for treatment. She died, but he survived and was adopted by a Swedish family who taught him a love of cooking. Marcus is now a leading light of New York cuisine running an international restaurant chain but with his heart firmly grounded in the stories of Harlem.

Jaylene Clark Owens is a spoken word artist and actor and born and bred Harlemite. She has woven the story of her changing neighbourhood into a play: Renaissance in the Belly of a Killer Whale.

Cultural historian John T Reddick gives us a personal tour of his neighbourhood.

And Martina da Silva and John Thomas share their musical tribute to Harlem.

(Photo: Chef Marcus Samuelsson. Credit: Matt Dutile)


SAT 07:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv009bhs)
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SAT 07:06 Business Weekly (w3ct0snj)
Safety vs privacy as we head back to work

On Business Weekly we look at how our employers are going to keep us safe as we cautiously emerge from lockdown. If our temperatures are taken and our movements recorded, how will the sensitive balance between safety and privacy be maintained? As soon as we’re back at work we might want a holiday - but will anywhere be open for tourists? We get the view from Spain, the second most visited country on the planet. Plus the food supply chain in the US is in crisis as a result of Covid-19. We hear from farmers and unions who are worried for the future. We find out about the new boss at video sharing social media giant TikTok and hear from the managing director of a puzzle maker who tells us why this old fashioned game is more popular than ever. Presented by Lucy Burton.

(Image: A security guard checks the temperature of an employee inside an office building in Shanghai. Credit: Getty Images).


SAT 08:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv009g7x)
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SAT 08:06 The Documentary (w3ct0t1z)
Don't Log Off

Don't log off - part seven

Across every continent, people are trying to make sense of a new world – one that happens mostly behind closed doors and often alone. Alan Dein connects with seven individuals whose lives have shifted under the coronavirus pandemic as they nervously anticipate what will come next in an uncertain future.

In Tehran, Golnar, an Iranian who describes herself as ‘constant traveller’ is inside her apartment – all future trips postponed. Across the town is the hostel she set up with a friend. Forced to close in the city’s lockdown it is now serving a crucial role.

Dhaka is one of the most densely populated city’s on earth. As the pandemic takes hold, entrepreneur Fahad worries for the successful delivery business he has spent years building up and the future for his parents he shares a home with.

Not everyone is inside. In Greece, Ibrahim is homeless, sheltering in an abandoned building. His friend Mikki is self-isolating and cannot help him.

Plus stories from Amsterdam, Hong Kong and Sudan of isolation and expectation.


SAT 08:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pl8qlztj9)
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SAT 08:32 The Documentary (w3ct0t5f)
Black Music in Europe

Black Music in Europe: 1900-1910

Clarke Peters draws on a rare collection of archive recordings to explore a forgotten musical history.

Received wisdom has it that black popular music arrived in Europe with the Empire Windrush in 1948, but Clarke brings us black sounds recorded in Europe from as far back as 1900.

Clarke discovers a huge variety of black music, including very early examples of blues harmonica, scat singing and stride piano. It also includes some of the earliest African music ever recorded, from Senegalese war songs captured at the Paris World Fair in 1900 to the music of a troupe of Congolese pygmies who toured Britain in 1905-07.

Much of the music in this series is drawn from Black Europe, a vast box-set issued by Bear Family Records and documenting the sounds of the era.

With readings by Paterson Joseph.

Presenter: Clarke Peters
Producer: Tom Woolfenden
Executive producer: Maria Williams

(Photo: Clarke Peters)


SAT 09:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv009l01)
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SAT 09:06 The Newsroom (w172x7b3tx4wbf5)
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SAT 09:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pl8qlzy8f)
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SAT 09:32 Trending (w3cszvrq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:32 today]


SAT 09:50 Over to You (w3cszf48)
Talk back to the BBC and challenge the programme makers.


SAT 10:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv009pr5)
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SAT 10:06 Sportshour (w172x3brrxk61bc)
'National teams all over the world are standing up and uniting to make progress for themselves'

"I don't think it's going to stop the forward momentum" - Author and documentary maker Susie Petruccelli joins us to discuss the development of women's soccer in America after the US National Women's Team lost their equal pay lawsuit. The team are appealing the decision and Sarah Mulkerrins joins us to explain the background to the case. Former USWNT players Brandi Chastain and Sarah Hagen give us their thoughts on the fight for equal pay and we also speak to Lindsay Eanet. She recently became the first female public address announcer for a professional sports team in Chicago. She's employed by the NWSL side the Chicago Red Stars.

"In France if you are a good jockey but a woman you are just a woman jockey. I don't want to be that, I want to be just a jockey like Frankie Dettori." Mickaelle Michel tells us how she's using television shows to teach herself Japanese, with the long-term aim of basing herself there. Over the winter Michel rode a record number of winners for a foreign jockey in Japan. She's back in her native France now and describes the "really strange" atmosphere she encountered racing behind closed doors as she won in Chantilly this week.

#AbideWithMeNHS - This Saturday the 139th FA Cup Final should have taken place at Wembley. The game was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but that hasn't stopped some members of the 2015 FA Cup Fans Choir from coming together to record their own version of the famous pre-match anthem, Abide with Me, with the aim of raising money for charity. Stuart Green is a member of the choir and he tells us about the idea and why he will be singing on his doorstep at the time the game should have kicked-off.

Staying with the FA Cup and this week's Sporting Witness recalls the "Matthews Final" of 1953, where the legendary Stanley Matthews led Blackpool to a 4-3 win over Bolton.

And - we hear from American baseball player Jake Brigham, who is currently playing in the Korean Baseball Organisation for Kiwoom Heroes. It's one of the first leagues to return during the Covid-19 pandemic. Players are not allowed to shake hands, hug or spit on the ground.

Photo credit: USA women celebrate winning the 2019 World Cup (Getty Images)


SAT 11:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv009th9)
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SAT 11:06 The Newsroom (w172x7b4xq183px)
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SAT 11:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pl8qm05rp)
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SAT 11:32 The Response (w3ct0rwt)
The Response: Coronavirus

Lockdown: Tales from Lebanon, Australia, Atlanta and India

In this episode, Lina Mounzer in Lebanon speaks about the protests which have seen people take to the streets despite lockdown. John McRae shares some good news from Australia and Matthew Krupczak from Atlanta, Georgia, tells us why he is worried that the easing of restrictions in his neighbourhood could mean the sacrifices so far could be for nothing. And Rajesh Kumar Shaw gives us his insights from The Sundarbans in India, where the return of migrant labourers could mean the spread of Covid -19 in an area with only basic medical help.

By emailing a voice memo recorded on their smartphones listeners from different countries offer their unique perspectives on a global crisis, and a glimpse of not just their own lives in lockdown, but how their country is tackling this unprecedented challenge.

If you want to tell us your story, send your voice memo to theresponse@bbc.co.uk or simply send us a message saying you want to take part.

(Photo: People in The Sundarbans in India getting to grips with coronavirus. Credit: Rajesh Kumar Shaw)


SAT 12:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv009y7f)
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SAT 12:06 Music Life (w3csz6st)
'Why didn't I think of that?' with Ella Eyre, Mahalia, MNEK and Hamzaa

A huge episode of Music Life this week, with Ella Eyre, Hamzaa, Mahalia, and MNEK.

Our host today is BRIT Award and MOBO winner Ella Eyre, a singer who's worked with the likes of Rudimental, Sigala, Meghan Trainor, Bastille, and French Montana. She's joined by Mahalia, an R&B/Neo-Soul singer, songwriter and actor who started playing the guitar at 13, and has worked and toured with the likes of Rudimental, Emeli Sande and Ed Sheeran. Her album Love and Compromise, released last year, features Burna Boy, Lucky Daye, and Ella Mai - as well as another of our guests today, Hamzaa. She's an alt-soul singer-songwriter and pianist who’s worked with Wretch 32 & Ghetts, been championed by Stormzy and compared to Adele, and supported Ray BLK.

Completing the lineup is Grammy-nominated songwriter, record producer and recording artist MNEK . He’s had a major impact on the British pop charts by co-writing hits for the Saturdays and Duke Dumont, and has since gone on to work with the likes of Beyoncé, Madonna, Kylie Minogue, and Little Mix.

They’ll be discussing what you look for in a co-writer, what you want out of a producer, and how easy or hard it is to get the record labels on board with your music.


SAT 13:00 BBC News (w172x5nr3gf2cg7)
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SAT 13:06 Newshour (w172x2ypdbdcsdm)
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SAT 14:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv00b5qp)
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SAT 14:06 The Newsroom (w172x7b3tx4wy4t)
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SAT 14:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pl8qm0k02)
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SAT 14:32 Global Questions (w3ct0tzz)
Coronavirus - Lifting Lockdown

As the Coronavirus continues to take hold, Global Questions invites its international audience to put their questions to a panel of experts. Around the world lockdowns are being eased, with some businesses reopening, and children going back to school. But Covid 19 remains massively contagious, and while getting economies back on their feet is important, it's also crucial to avoid a second spike in infections. So how should politicians balance lives against livelihoods? And if they lift lockdowns too quickly, could they do even more damage to the economy and people's well-being, having to shut them down all over again? How is the world emerging from life under lockdown? Join Zeinab Badawi and her panel

PANEL

Tony Blair Former British Prime Minister and Chair Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
Paolo Gentiloni Former Italian Prime Minister and European Commissioner for Economy


Producer: Ben Carter


SAT 15:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv00b9gt)
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SAT 15:06 Sportsworld (w172x3l4rgzdcxm)
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SAT 16:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv00bf6y)
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SAT 16:06 Sportsworld (w172x3l4rgzdhnr)
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SAT 17:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv00bjz2)
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SAT 17:06 Business Weekly (w3ct0snj)
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SAT 18:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv00bnq6)
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SAT 18:06 The Newsroom (w172x7b4xq18yxt)
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SAT 18:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pl8qm10zl)
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SAT 18:32 Trending (w3cszvrq)
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SAT 18:50 Over to You (w3cszf48)
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SAT 19:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv00bsgb)
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SAT 19:06 The Documentary (w3ct0t30)
Recycling Chile, recycling Spain

Leena Vuotovesi, the leader of environmental work in Europe’s greenest town, Ii in Finland, travels to Chile and Spain to compare recycling practices.

First she visits La Pintana - Chile’s unlikely climate champion: an impoverished neighbourhood plagued by crime and violence that recycles more than any other town in Chile. They turn residents’ vegetable waste into compost, used cooking oil into biodiesel and discarded cigarette ends into fertiliser - and they save money in the process. Leena meets locals who are keen to participate in building a circular economy and finds that La Pintana’s mayor, a woman with a mission to improve the local environment is key to driving the changes.

Leena then goes to a pristine part of southern Spain - a country where municipal recycling rates lag way behind EU targets. She speaks to children, teachers and waste management experts to find out why Spanish people don’t appear to care about recycling and to see what could be done to reduce environmental and economic damage.

Produced by Erika Benke

Photo: Residents of La Pintana collect a free plant after filling a bottle with discarded cigarette ends Credit: Municipalidad de La Pintana


SAT 20:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv00bx6g)
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SAT 20:06 The Arts Hour (w3cszk2s)
American singer-songwriter Alicia Keys

This week on The Arts Hour with Nikki Bedi, American singer/songwriter Alicia Keys discusses the very early influences that led her to music, British writer director Amma Asante explains how film scripts may change to reflect the corona virus pandemic and Betto Arcos takes us on a musical tour of South America in lockdown.

The Arts Hour also hears how British actor Daniel Day Lewis prepared for his memorable role in There will be Blood, Indian writer Tishani Doshi talks about writing complex female characters, and poet Roger Robinson muses on the power of words to evoke empathy.

Joining Nikki to discuss this week’s cultural highlights are American writer Angie Cruz and film critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh. Angie Cruz discusses her latest novel Dominicana, which is about a young woman who moves from the Dominican Republic to 1960s New York. She explains why this coming of age story and exploration of the immigrant experience has struck a chord with so many readers worldwide.

(Photo: Alicia Keys. Credit: Getty Images)


SAT 21:00 BBC News (w172x5nr3gf3bf8)
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SAT 21:06 Newshour (w172x2ypdbddrcn)
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SAT 22:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv00c4pq)
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SAT 22:06 From Our Own Correspondent (w3csz9pg)
Trump’s Achilles heel

Stories from the US, Brazil, Siberia and the Netherlands

For months Donald Trump downplayed the threat of the novel coronavirus suggesting it would one day disappear. All it took was a few White House staffers, including the press secretary for Vice-President Mike Pence, testing positive for the virus for the White House to transform from business as usual to something akin to the lockdown much of America has endured. But the looming economic crisis is a far greater preoccupation for the president, as Anthony Zurcher reports.

Brazil is now the third worst-affected country in numbers of coronavirus infections with more than 290,000 cases, and a death toll that exceeds 18,000. With so little testing in the country, experts believe the true number of infections could be 12 times higher. But an increasing number of people are failing to take it seriously. And national and state governments have very different views on when the lockdown should end. South America correspondent Katy Watson reports from Sao Paolo.

The Afro-Brazilian martial art and dance form, Capoeira continues to be practised around the world, even during the lockdown. Over the last decade, it has caught on in far cooler climes, such as Russia. Olga Smirnova went to Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia months before the pandemic broke out. She visited the world’s largest freshwater lake, where she discovered that capoeira is much more than just a form of exercise for young Russians.

The Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte called his country’s coronavirus restrictions “an intelligent lockdown” - designed to minimise the impact on society, the economy and mental health. But now some people are starting to question whether enough was done to shield the most vulnerable. And as the country adapts to life post-lockdown, there are some who are innovating to allow people to interact more safely, finds Anna Holligan

(Image: President Trump speaking about agriculture and the food supply chain in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on 19 May 2020. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times-Pool/Getty Images)


SAT 22:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pl8qm1hz3)
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SAT 22:32 Outlook (w3cszdzr)
Stranded in the jungle on our honeymoon

When Holly Fitzgerald and her husband Fitz’s plane crash-landed in the Peruvian rainforest, their honeymoon of a lifetime travelling across South America quickly became treacherous. Holly was desperate for adventure so instead of waiting 3 months for the next boat out, they decided to build a raft and sail downstream towards the Amazon River. But when a storm washed away their food and their makeshift raft got stuck in a swamp, their adventure became a nightmare. With no supplies and no end in sight, Fitz edged closer towards death. Their relationship, sanity and strength would be pushed to the absolute limit. Holly has written a book called Ruthless River.

A longer version of this story was first broadcast on 16/04/2020. Listen here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszd9m

Presenter: Rajan Datar
Producer: Mariana Des Forges

Picture: Jerry ‘Fitz’ Fitzgerald and plane that crashed
Credit: Peter Pereira


SAT 23:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv00c8fv)
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SAT 23:06 The Newsroom (w172x7b4kfr5qd9)
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SAT 23:32 Boston Calling (w3csz70l)
Looking out for you

The race to find a dependable vaccine for Covid-19 is on. More than 100 laboratories worldwide are competing to try to get there first, and that makes it more likely that a way to halt the pandemic will be found sooner. But with so many competing interests, it's far from clear that all of the world's citizens will have equitable access to a vaccine, once it is in production.

Also, immigrant ‘digital first responders’ provide vital services, informing people about coronavirus and helping local communities, but now they're in a financial crisis; the coronavirus pandemic is also disrupting remittances, and as a result immigrants' families are losing their safety net; many Filipino Americans are on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, so a new initiative is bringing free meals to hospitals heavily staffed by Filipinos; and the surprising cultural contributions of the 1918 influenza pandemic.

Image: A scientist examines Covid-19 infected cells at a laboratory in St Petersburg, Russia (Credit: Anton Vaganov/Reuters)