Andy: Well, not so often. When I was a kid I think I saw Tower Bridge go up fairly often---all the traffic had to wait for the ships to pass through the bridge. Anyway, just this side of London Bridge were lots of warehouses, where they kept their cargo. But during the Second World War there was lots of bombing over London ... Janet: Yes, I read about that ... the Blitz? Andy: That's right. And even when I was a kid, I remember that many of the buildings were still damaged. But in the late 1980s and '90s this whole area was redeveloped---you can see for yourself, it's a trendy place to live now. Janet: Is the River Thames still polluted? Andy: Well, it certainly used to be polluted. I remember it had a very distinctive smell. If you fell in, they used to take you to hospital. Janet: That sounds revolting! Andy: Yes, but in the 1960s they cleaned it up, and in fact it's now one of the cleanest city rivers in the world. Janet: It's very different from the parts of London I know. Andy: The thing about Southwark is that it's a typical suburb of London, full of old buildings and shops. And this is where I grew up. I used to live in that building there. Janet: It's amazing. It looks very old. Andy: Yes, it's about 80 years old. Janet: And where did you go to school? Andy: Let me see. Yes, it was about a mile away from here. From about the age of eight, I used to go by bike. We all made our way to school on our own, meeting up with friends along the way until there was a large gang of us kids as we got closer to school. These days parents are much more protective and take their kids to school by car. It's safer, but it's not as much fun. Anyway, where was I? Janet: You were telling me about your schooldays. Andy: That's right. Anyway, I stayed at school until I was 16, and then I went to a college of further education, and did my A levels. And after that, I decided to go to university. Janet: Your parents must have been proud of you. Andy: Yes, I think so. I was the first person in my family to go to uni. Janet: That's fascinating. Andy: And what about you? Janet: Oh, it was a typical childhood in Anshan, nothing much to tell. Andy: But I have no idea what a typical childhood is like in China. Janet: OK, I'll tell you. Let me think ... Andy: Oh, hang on! Do you mind waiting here for a minute? Let me go up to my flat and get my research, and then you can tell me about it while we're on our way back to the studio. Janet: OK. Andy: Back in a minute . ? Outside view

Around the world, many children are living in poverty. Many children live in countries where there's war. Many children do not get enough to eat. Some of these children are suffering from malnutrition(营养失调). Many children in the world can’t go to school. One agency that is helping these children is UNICEF.UNICEF means the United Nations Children's Fund. UNICEF has more than seven thousand people working and one hundred

and fifty-seven countries around the world to help children. One country where they are doing a great deal of work is Afghanistan. A whole generation of children in Afghanistan has never known peace, until

recently. Now UNICEF is bringing food for malnourished children. They're bringing medicine. Here a medical team travels on horseback to bring

medicine to a remote mountain village. And UNICEF is helping the children get an education.\

among 40000 kids. And , they all say that the first thing they want is peace, and the second thing that they want is ,was education.\

destroyed almost 2000 schools. Under the Taliban , girls weren't allowed to attend school at all. \destroyed completely, in the rest of the 50 percent schools which, eh, eh, needs repair. We are trying to accommodate all the children in the schools.\

school in Kabul. The teacher, Habiba Kilwati, has been running the school for 12 years. She supervises 26 other schools like it.

\and be like normal students.\Under the Taliban, police punished families whose children went to school. Today, children are happy to be in school.\an egg, and came to school. I have notebooks , pencils, erasers, and friends, and fun here.“UNICEF is helping rebuild the educational system in Afghanistan in many ways. UNICEF is helping to train teachers. They're rebuilding schools, they're printing textbooks, and delivering books and other supplies to schools. This girls school was closed under the Taliban. Now, it's opening again. It has room for 960 students. These girls are happy to be back to school.\There was no education then. I tried to study then with my parents, but it's not the same. It wasn't so bad, but now I'm much happier because the schools are reopening.\children enrolled, and back in school, and to give them back their

education so they can read and write.\and closed the schools, girls stayed at home. Now there's an opportunity for them to continue their education. We are very happy about this. We can be proud of our girls, our young people. They can go back to school.

UNICEF is working on its mission to bring food, medicine and education to the children of Afganistan .In the process, they're also bringing hope.

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One of the strangest feelings I’ve ever had was when I returned by chance to a place where I’d been happy as a child. My husband and I were visiting some friends for the weekend-----they lived about 200 kilometers away. We were driving along when I suddenly saw a church in the distance that I recognized. My favorite aunt had lived very near it on a farm that my brother and I used to visit once a year with our parents.

We were city kids, brought up in the middle of London, and this was a working farm-----the real thing-----with cows in cowsheds, fields with ponds and a muddy yard full of smelly pi gs-----we had the run of the whole place-----it was just paradise for us.

And then-----there was the food-----home-made jam and bread and cakes, milk fresh from the cow. And my aunt Lottie-----a farmer’s wife-----and her husband, uncle George and their kids, Katie and Ben, our two cousins who my brother and I really got on with. It was heaven that week we used to spend there. They moved from the farm when I was… how old? ----- about 14. So I’d never been back or seen it again.

Anyway, there we were, and I’d just seen the church, so we turned off and drove down this really narrow lane. And before I knew it we were in front of Aunt Lottie’s farm. The extraordinary thing was that it hadn’t changed------ not one tiny bit.

It was a lovely old place with a typical country cottage garden, full of flowers. There were lots of barns and sheds-----they were next to-----next to the farm. And you know, I can’t even begin to describe the feeling I had standing there. It was-----oh, what was it? An incredibly powerful feeling of longing-----nostalgia(怀旧；乡愁) for the past-----for times I’d been very，very happy. But it was the past. I hadn’t been there for 20 years and I couldn’t go back, so also I had a feeling of huge sadness, that I couldn’t have those times again. And-----at the same time-----great sweetness, because those times had been so happy, so innocent-----because I was a child. So there was this extraordinary mix-----of longing, sadness and