
Episode 3: The Ships, The Tugs, and the Port
Containers
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Introduction
lyn corwatch became the first female captain of an american cargo ship under remarkable circumstances. She was eight months pregnant and there's no doctor on board a container ship, leton no b or midwife or adula. Every time she entered a port, she had to explain sceptical dock workers that she wasn't the captain's wife,. The men had to listen to her. This is containers, an eight part audio documentary about global trade, capitalism and big ash ships.
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