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The Documentary: In My Present Isolation

Letter writing

06/06/2020 GMT

In My Present Isolation

BBC World Service - The Documentary, In My Present Isolation

Six authors on different continents convey their thoughts during their present isolation.

Six authors on different continents, write across distances, to convey thoughts and preoccupations, during their present isolation.

While the world is held in the grip of this pandemic, there's nowhere to go, no escape, all the exterior space has been taken. The only refuge is inside, a home, a room.. in the interior of the psyche, surfing the seas and landscapes of the mind.

In this moment of social distancing and reliance on social media, a group of writers are reverting to an earlier form of communication – to letter writing. They’ve agreed to create a conversation about their thoughts at this strange moment, via chain letter moving from one continent to the next.. rapidly, around the world – just as the virus itself is doing.

Dava Sobel is in Long Island, New York, to Thomas Lynch in Michigan also in the US; Okwiri Oduor is in Bavaria, Germany she hands on to Claire Louis Bennett who writes from Galway, in Ireland. Akash Kapur is locked down in Auroville in India and William Fiennes is near Oxford in England.

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