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BBC OS Conversations: Coronavirus: Surviving the pandemic

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Coronavirus: Surviving the pandemic

26/12/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - BBC OS Conversations, Coronavirus: Surviving the pandemic

We return to people we spoke to earlier in the pandemic

We return to people we to spoke earlier in the pandemic

After hearing so many incredibly moving stories since the pandemic was first declared, we’ve decided to return to some of those people who’ve been guests on the programme and hear how their lives have changed - from two residents in Wuhan, China - to the English couple who had a lockdown wedding and decided to ‘elope’ to save guests from getting the virus.

Lockdown and isolation has also left many people across the world struggling with isolation and loneliness. Two women in Canada and the United States share how they’ve been faring without human contact and how appearing on BBC OS produced the start of a blossoming friendship. 

Host Nuala McGovern also talks to two chaplains who continue to offer spiritual advice to those in need. One is based in New York which, when we first spoke to her, was the worst affected city in the world. Today the chaplains share their experiences of the meaning and purpose of life and how to grasp small moments of joy.

(Photo: Lindsay van Dijk, Humanist Chaplain in NHS hospitals in the UK Credit: Edward Thompson / Twitter @_edthompson, Instagram @mredthompson )

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