NOW - #HelpYourHood with Rob Cameron
Guest: Rob Cameron, BBC Correspondent for CZ and Slovakia
Fulfilling two lifelong dreams, Rob Cameron gets to live in Prague and work in news. His response to the COVID-19 pandemic was to create the #helpyourhood Facebook group for a few friends, but it has grown almost beyond his control into something like an informal news agency in its own right (thanks to a crack team of volunteers - see their names below). Rob talks about having goulash & beer in his veins, and how this country has handled the COVID pandemic, including some insight into why things went so well in the spring.
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SECTIONS
01:17 - Czech at Heart
03:00 - Prague Chooses You
06:19 - Journalist at Heart
07:21 - This Stuff Affects Me
09:25 - A Frog Being Boiled - Change is Incremental
13:49 - #helpyourhood - a place of COVID-19 calm in the Facebook echo chamber & voluntary news agency
20:54 - The Infamous Dinner Party on the Charles Bridge
22:52 - The First Wave is Now, One Man Saved Us in the Spring, the State of the State Now
30:33 - Thoughts on the (Nearish) Future
SHOUT OUT to Rob's incredible collection of volunteers who continue to make #helpyourhood a place of reasons and good information:
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