Alan Dein searches for the stories that connect us in a changing world. Today, Alan hears stories from people who’ve transformed their lives and are helping others to do the same against the backdrop of the pandemic.He speaks to Alhaji in Sier

Grounded

Dec 22nd, 2020 27m 35s

Alan Dein searches for the stories that connect us in a changed world. Inspiring and moving stories of how the pandemic has changed people's lives on every continent. Today, airline pilot Peter in Australia talks about deciding to become a bus

Searching For Hope

Dec 15th, 2020 27m 15s

Alan Dein searches for the stories that connect us in a changed world. Inspiring and moving accounts of how the pandemic has changed people's lives on every continent. Today, Liana in Armenia celebrates her 30th birthday as her country finds it

Resilience

Dec 14th, 2020 27m 25s

Alan Dein searches for the stories that connect us in a changed world. Inspiring and moving accounts of how the pandemic has changed people's lives on every continent. New series. Today, Alan connects with Sakie in Myanmar, who tells of a hero

Homecoming

May 11th, 2020 27m 18s

Alan Dein talks to people around the world about the challenges of family life in lockdown.He connects with Margaret in Uganda who has adopted many children orphaned by HIV. And he reaches out to Alezz in Peru, a trans non-binary person who is

Journeys Interrupted

Apr 17th, 2020 26m 27s

Across every continent, lives have been put on hold, and people are looking to the day when they can pick up and restart after lockdown.Alan Dein connects to people looking forward to continuing those things most important to them.In Mexico, Lu

Calm Waters

Apr 15th, 2020 27m 39s

Alan Dein connects with people around the world trying to find moments of calm during the coronavirus pandemic.He speaks to Jens, the captain of a container ship in the middle of the Indian Ocean who is unsure when he may be able to get his cre

Anticipation

Apr 1st, 2020 27m 43s

Across every continent, people are trying to make sense of a new world – one that happens mostly behind closed doors and often alone. Alan Dein connects with seven individuals whose lives have shifted under the coronavirus pandemic as they ner

Wanderlust

Sep 13th, 2019 27m 51s

Marco loves Beijing - and being Chinese born he should feel at home. But instead he always feels a bit different from those around him, because he was brought up in Australia. His wanderlust is never ceasing, flying across the world is his way

Healing

Sep 6th, 2019 27m 53s

Alan Dein talks to people around the world to find out how they recover when facing difficulty.Helena is a young woman in Venezuela, living alone with her daughter. Caught in the middle of a national crisis, crime and electrical blackouts, she

Seeking Fulfilment

Sep 4th, 2019 27m 31s

Alan Dein connects with people around the world united by their desire to find fulfilment.Alan speaks to a young gay man in China troubled by homophobia and an Egyptian woman determined to resist the religious extremism she witnesses in her sma

Utopia/Dystopia

Mar 26th, 2019 27m 53s

Some locations - the beaches of California, the South American rain-forest, the majestic scenery and slow pace of Christchurch, New Zealand - may seem like Paradise - but reality, in the form of nature, climate change, industrialisation, or te

Life In Motion

Mar 19th, 2019 27m 27s

Alan Dein hears compelling personal stories from people around the globe about the things which unite them. In Brazil, Saudi Arabia, the North of England and beyond, Alan connects with people online who are on the move, exploring what ‘motion’

The Road Less Travelled

Mar 12th, 2019 27m 15s

In this week's episode, Alan connects with people in Sweden, Brazil, Australia, Poland, and beyond. Conversations include a trans man in the military getting ready for fatherhood, a burlesque performer building queer community in Brazil, and a

A Sense of Belonging

Mar 5th, 2019 27m 36s

Alan Dein connects with strangers across the world, exploring the things that unite people across cultures and borders. Today, Alan reaches out to people in Afghanistan, the Philippines, Sierra Leone and beyond - exploring what it means to bel

The Consolations of Art

Dec 16th, 2017 27m 28s

Alan Dein connects with random strangers around the world and calls them. Each has a personal, intimate story of how art has enriched their lives or provided solace in difficult times.Producer: Georgia Catt.

Exile

Dec 9th, 2017 27m 41s

Alan Dein connects with random strangers around the world and calls them. Alan Dein connects with random strangers around the world and calls them. Each has a story of exile - whether through escape, economic necessity or adventure.Producer: G

Tolerance

Dec 2nd, 2017 27m 47s

Alan Dein continues his virtual global journey, calling random people he stumbles across on line. Through extraordinary stories of tolerance, Alan hears what people endure in their political, religious and love lives.Bob, a Lebanese computer in

Isolation

Nov 27th, 2017 27m 39s

Alan Dein connects with random strangers around the world and calls them.This week, his guests are in far flung places and bustling cities but each, in their own way, isolated. He finds Clare, an ex-Mounted Police Officer in the High Arctic, Di

Great Expectations

Nov 18th, 2017 27m 16s

Alan Dein travels the world via the internet talking to parents and children about navigating the tricky expectations they have of each other.Among those Alan strikes up conversation with today: a Filipino mother estranged from her gay son, a U

Survival

Nov 11th, 2017 27m 9s

Alan Dein travels the world via the internet, talking to people trying to survive against the odds.Locking himself away in a studio in Broadcasting House, Alan crosses time zones and continents speaking to random strangers using Facebook, Skype

Don't Log Off, Mr President

Nov 13th, 2016 27m 22s

Alan Dein talks to his Facebook friends across America about the election of Donald Trump. Just hours after the result, Trump and Clinton supporters alike talk passionately about why they voted the way they did - and share their hopes and fears

Episode 4

Jul 19th, 2016 27m 38s

Alan Dein continues his nocturnal excursions via Facebook and Skype, hearing the real life dramas of random strangers. Tonight he connects with a civil engineering student from Kathmandu two years on from the earthquake that devastated parts of

A Message from Hank and Norma

Jul 11th, 2016 27m 29s

Alan Dein presents the moving story of three years in the life of Hank & Norma, a couple in their 60s from Arkansas, USA - told entirely by the messages left by Hank for Alan on Skype.Alan first spoke to harp-playing Hank three years ago for Do

Clean Slate

Jul 6th, 2016 27m 44s

Alan Dein continues his series of nocturnal conversations with random strangers. Settling down for the night, he locks the studio door and opens the microphone to people he encounters online. As he crisscrosses the world, he hears from a Kenyan