Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary presents, Hold Fast!

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  Hi, I'm Asya Fuchs, and welcome to this bonus episode in the documentary from the BBC World Service.

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  I host the BBC's Lives Less Ordinary podcast, extraordinary stories from around the world.

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  To hear every episode, search for Lives Less Ordinary wherever you find your BBC podcasts.

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  What would you do

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  if your world shrunk to 300 square metres and you had no say over who you shared it with?

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  If you were on a ship, at sea, far from loved ones,

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  and didn't know when you'd be able to set foot on land again and get home?

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  How would you cope?

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  In January 2020, the Avantour, a sailing cargo ship,

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  set off from Germany, heading for the Caribbean.

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  On board, a crew of 15 with a mission to transport olive oil,

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  cacao, coffee and rum across the Atlantic and back.

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  But before they even made it halfway, everything they counted on would be thrown to the winds.

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  I'm Siobhan McSweeney and you're listening to Lives Less Ordinary Presents Hold Fast from the BBC World Service.

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  Over the next eight episodes, we'll be bringing you the story of 15 people,

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  188 days at sea, and one extraordinary voyage.

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  Episode 1 Signs from the Universe We begin in a train station in Italy with a young woman called Giulia Boccosi.

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  It's December 2019.

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  Giulia is carrying her life's belongings on her back and she's fresh from a nine-month voyage,

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