Flying Seagulls: Child's play

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The Flying Seagull Project travels the world with a simple goal: to enable and empower children in warzones and refugee camps to play. Theirs is a riproaring, irreverent, iridescent carnival that cuts through even the hoariest of cynics - and changes people's lives. These musical and magical interactions take kids in desperate and challenging situations out of their uncertainty - for just a few minutes - and often give parents the rare opportunity to see their children play freely and unhampered. From Glastonbury to a primary school in South London and on to a refugee camp in Bulgaria, reporter Georgia Moodie follows Ash Perrin, the founder of the Flying Seagulls, as he gets kids from all walks of life to chuckle, yell and play. Faidra Liapi, a current Flying Seagulls clown, and Isobel Wolf, the National director of the Flying Seagulls in the UK, take us inside the work the Seagulls do, while Khalid Sahak, a former refugee and the Treasurer of the Dutch branch of the Flying Seagull Project, and Bobby Beaumont, a former Flying Seagulls clown turned PhD candidate, discuss the importance of play and why it is so important for all kids, but especially those in need. Presenter/producer: Georgia Moodie An Overcoat Media production for BBC World Service (Photo: Ash Perrin, founder and CEO of The Flying Seagull Project. Credit: Flying Seagull Project)