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Cycle Courier © ProfDEH [Wikimedia Commons]Radio 4 broadcast documentary about cycling couriers
TUNE in to Radio 4 at 11am today for ‘City Messengers – Still Pedalling?’, a documentary about cycle couriers or if you miss it you can catch it on their Listen Again service (it's pick of the day for today).
The half-hour doc revisits a group of London cycle couriers first encountered in a programme last summer, who now have to face the economic downturn as well as the perils of the road.
In last summer's documentary listeners met 43-year-old Will Melling, who still longs to be a photographer; Nhatt Attack, a young American for whom the road is an escape from “thinking too much”; and Buffalo Bill, whose last delivery as a courier was mince pies to a famous film producer.
Now, as the recession deepens London couriers’ average earnings have dropped from £60 to £40 per day. The programme finds out how they are coping here and Stateside.
worried that "routes have to be delivered with local people, to detoxify the narrative" doesn't mean a continuation of NIMBYs vetoing everything....
Pog having just found out it's chips for tea tonight maybe?
Someone was really worked up about e-scooters.
Not sure about the drone for face collection. All the bad 'uns I have seen lately wear masks (while riding their illegal electric or ice...
More likely the telling phrase is " In 2015, it was sold to private equity firm TZP Group" Hedge fund bell-ends with more lawyers than sense...
Spaghetti Junctions from around the world American ones seem the craziest.
If I sell my Park Tool truing stand I can afford ten percent of one these front wheels. Result!
Certainly can't be as bad as those carbon monoxide alarms - I always get a headache from their loud beeping
Citation needed - or could it be that it's actually because they are regularly associating with criminals (the ones you point out - perhaps at the...
Indeed. Its a virtual cycling platform at the end of the day, so there is a limit to what can be done without losing the 'game' feel. As it...