Don't log off: People are alike all over

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

For the last decade Alan Dein has crossed the globe via the internet to gather stories from total strangers and occasional old friends. Roberta from Zambia is tending to her chickens when she encounters Alan. She shares stories of her father's commitment to education that has shaped a generation and the pain of loss. Steve, in Kenya, has parked up his taxi with a rooster nearby. He unravels his life story of a boy from the ghetto who found love. In Uganda, Marion the midwife has been picking up the pieces of community life still ravaged by Covid-19. All three stories connect in unusual ways, but show that people are alike all over.

Transcript

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0:00.0	What goes into making the business daily podcasts from the BBC World Service?
0:04.8	Well first we take a cup full of business news. Naturally.
0:08.0	Then we add a healthy measure of technology.
0:10.0	Mmm. Along with a pinch of exciting innovation.
0:14.0	Business daily from the BBC World Service. Find out more at the end of this podcast.
0:24.0	This is the BBC World Service.
0:26.0	And you're listening to Don't Log Off with me, Alan Dean.
0:30.0	Dear Sam Looner from China.
0:32.0	How do I explain this experiment in long distance confessions, intimacy and storytelling?
0:40.0	I'm living in a safe house. I cannot walk free. I don't have my freedom of speech.
0:44.0	20 years of it on and off.
0:46.0	You were shot in a leg. Yeah.
0:48.0	By a sniper. Actually.
0:50.0	Nowadays I mainly sit at home,
0:52.0	diving up adventures in conversation, like some kind of time zone hopping tardists of oral history.
1:00.0	I am in St. Petersburg.
1:02.0	I'm in Indonesia. From Uzbekistan.
1:04.0	Falling into the lives of complete strangers,
1:06.0	or old friends who I've never actually met.
1:10.0	I'm everywhere and nowhere in a few clicks.
1:13.0	So where shall I start today? Let's have some zambian chickens.
1:18.0	And they keep her, Roberta.
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