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The Documentary: Detours: Where the homeless elephants go

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11/09/2019 GMT

Where the homeless elephants go

Detours

BBC World Service - The Documentary, Detours, Where the homeless elephants go

Forced off their usual feeding routes, wild elephants surround a village in Assam, India

Forced off their usual feeding routes, wild elephants surround a village in Assam, India. And they’re hungry. Spend time with the night watch, trying to keep people safe.

Wild elephants surround a village in Assam, India. And they're hungry. They have been forced off their usual feeding routes, and Damon Smith goes out with the night watch to find out where the homeless elephants go.

Hosted by Academy award-winning documentary film-maker Asif Kapadia (Amy, Senna, Diego Maradona), this is the second episode of a five-part series from BBC World Service in collaboration with Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute.

Producer: Damon Smith

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The Documentary: Detours

Over five episodes we meet five communities on journeys away from the lives they expected.

For our second collaboration with Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute, the BBC World Service presents a new radio and podcast documentary series Detours.
 
Detours take us off main roads onto the indirect routes, and are journeys which often end up at different destinations to the ones we expect. A detour offers the unexpected, an opportunity for reflection, or encounters which make us laugh, or are exciting, or even tragic.

Over five episodes we meet five communities on journeys away from the lives they expected in Greece, India, Macedonia, Latin America and Asia.

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