The coronavirus hit to musicians

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We find out how musicians on three continents are coping with life under lockdown. Zena White is managing director of record company Partisan, based in New York, and tells us her firm's artists are struggling without the ability to perform on the road. In Barcelona three musicians living in an apartment together have been inspired to form a band called Stay Homas and write quarantine-themed songs. We find out more from Guillem Bolto who has been playing percussion for them on upside down bins. And Zimbabwean musician Berita Khumalo, who has been livestreaming performances for free since a lockdown came into effect in South Africa where she lives, says she's wrestling with some tricky commercial decisions as money gets tighter. Also in the programme, Tewolde Gebremariam, chief executive of Africa’s biggest air carrier, Ethiopian Airlines, defends his decision not to suspend flights to China, even at the height of the Covid-19 outbreak there. Plus, consumer goods group Unilever says shopping habits have changed in lockdown, with people buying fewer personal grooming products like shampoo, razors and deodorant. Saabira Chaudhuri of the Wall Street Journal discusses the findings. (Picture: Stay Homas. Picture credit: Stay Homas.)