Staying In with Jan Powell
I'm a journalist and humanitarian living in France. With a third of the world having to stay in because of the Covid-19 lockdown, I talk to people from different ends of the earth to hear how they are coping with their own particular coronavirus confinement. From Paris to Penzance, Istanbul to India, what are people experiencing - the local rules, the frustrations, the highs and lows and what, if anything, do we all have in common? Audio postcards from the pandemic with me, Jan Powell.
Staying In with Jan Powell
Corona, Cats and Ramadan in Istanbul
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Jan Powell
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Episode 2
Jan finds out what it's like to be locked down during the Covid-19 pandemic in Istanbul with TRT producer and journalist Sitara Jabeen. How do you make TV reports when you can't leave home? What was it like living through Ramadan, that most sociable of months, in solitary confinement? And what's happened to the hundreds of cats that roam Istanbul's back streets, now that the restaurants and markets that normally feed them are closed by the coronavirus?
