Don't log off: Part one

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Alan Dein connects with strangers across the world via social media, exploring the things that unite people across cultures and borders. He 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 small city. He also reaches out to an Iranian man struggling to pursue his passion for foreign languages against the odds, and a jobless Nigerian distressed by his inability to provide for his family.

Transcript

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0:00.0	I've looked myself away to talk to people on the internet.
0:04.0	Hello?
0:05.0	Hello?
0:06.0	Hello?
0:07.0	Yeah, hi.
0:08.0	I started with nothing, just a Facebook page which said,
0:11.0	talk to me.
0:12.0	Is this Javidad? Yes exactly. Oh hi Yasmin how are you? I've been
0:17.0	working day and night approaching 20 past 5 to 37m. crossing time zones.
0:23.0	I'm in Asia. I'm in Nigeria.
0:25.0	And content. What is the time with you in China?
0:28.0	I'm in 10, capital of Iran.
0:30.0	Traveling the world through the internet.
0:32.0	I don't go out here in the street.
0:34.0	Sometimes you feel loneliness.
0:36.0	I hardly go out.
0:38.0	Searching for the things that unite people across cultures and borders.
0:41.0	You think your dreams are possible.
0:44.6	The arrest is there.
0:45.6	It's because I'm a black man.
0:47.6	Religious extremists are just foolish.
0:50.6	They are FOMis.
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