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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, Kai Ryssdal from Marketplace tells us how some small businesses are struggling to access the latest tranche of PPP cash and Ashwini Deshpande, Professor of Economics at Ashoka University in Haryana talks about the impact of coronavirus on women in India. (Picture: Stay Homas. Picture credit: Stay Homas.)