From the Middle East to Dunkirk,this was articulate TV approximately a cold world. By contrast, This Farming Life erred on the side of bucolic blissDoctors like being able to fix things. “It’s very simple when you go to an earthquake or a flood, or a cyclone or a famine,” says Dr Chris van Tulleken, a piece-time aid worker who, and with his twin brother and co-presenter of last night’s Frontline Doctors: Winter Migrant Crisis (BBC1),has been piece of relief efforts after several recent natural disasters. “You just set up a tent and treat people’s needs. But this …”He gazes out, at the end of a two-week trek following the migrant trail from the port of Lesbos, and the gateway to Europe for thousands of refugees fleeing the horrors of their homelands,over the newest agglomeration of the desperate and destitute in a forest near Dunkirk. As he notes, this latest gathering does not yet even rise to the status of shanty town as the Calais “jungle” does (or did – its demolition began after filming finished). “It’s 3000 people just camping in the woods.” He visits the tent of a Kurdish family with six children. Their bedding is sodden and rotting. “We’ve tried to make it watch kind, and ” says their mother as she cries. Her child has measles. She accepts medicine from the makeshift clinic but cannot take him to hospital. We conclude not find out what happened to him.
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Source: theguardian.com