Don't log off: My life, my world
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Alan Dein follows Rohan, a young Jamaican farmer over the past 12 months as he is faced by the twin challenges of drought and the pandemic.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, is this Farhard? |
| 0:01.7 | Yeah, Farhad speaking. |
| 0:02.8 | Hello, is this Leanna? |
| 0:04.1 | Hey, hey, Alan. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm Alan Dean, and over the past year, I followed the stories of people on every continent |
| 0:11.1 | for my series, Don't Log Off. |
| 0:14.1 | It's nearly evening in Kabul. |
| 0:16.8 | Where are you? |
| 0:18.3 | Wakiso, Uganda, Wakiso surrounds the capital city Kampala. |
| 0:22.7 | This time, I want to tell just one of those stories, in depth and up close, through interviews. |
| 0:29.2 | Where we are in Manchester is called Devon, Jamaica. |
| 0:32.7 | And their own smartphone recording. |
| 0:34.6 | Hey, Alan, we're outside now. |
| 0:38.3 | Welcome to Don't Log Off, My Life, My World, on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:46.3 | While many have had to stay at home, I've travelled the world online, keeping in touch with |
| 0:51.8 | the day-to-day lives, with a health worker in Uganda, an entrepreneur |
| 0:55.7 | in Bangladesh, a student in Afghanistan. |
| 0:59.0 | And for this last installment, here's Rohan, a farmer from Midwest Jamaica. |
| 1:04.4 | We started chatting in May 2020. |
| 1:07.8 | Today we've been scouting boundary lines to repair them because we've had severe drought |
| 1:16.0 | and the cows needed to get to new pastures and we were limiting their access. |
| 1:23.6 | They started to bore themselves into new pastures so we have to be repairing those areas. |
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