Don't log off: Roads less travelled

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Alan speaks with Shugofa, an Afghan refugee now living in Rome. He also reconnects with Leo in Moldova, who last spoke with Alan eight years ago and has been on several important journeys since then. As well as them he meets Maureen, a nurse in the Northwest Territories of Canada and Akhil, a blues guitarist in Kolkata, India.

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0:00.0	What goes into making the business daily podcast from the BBC World Service?
0:05.4	Well first we take a cup full of business news.
0:08.0	Naturally.
0:09.0	Then we add a healthy measure of technology.
0:11.0	Mmm.
0:12.0	Along with a pinch of exciting innovation.
0:15.0	Business daily from the BBC World Service.
0:18.0	Find out more at the end of this podcast.
0:23.0	I've looked myself away to talk to people on the internet.
0:27.0	This is Alan.
0:28.0	It is. Hello, it's his Maureen.
0:30.0	It's his, you're right.
0:31.0	I've been working day and night, approaching 20 past five to thirty seven.
0:36.0	It's seven, forty five PMU.
0:38.0	Random encounters with anyone who wants to talk to me.
0:42.0	I had just liked this a hope, but it came true.
0:46.0	We live Afghanistan.
0:47.0	Some of the biggest mistakes I've made have been when you make an assumption.
0:51.0	I get every morning to wake up when you're happy by default.
0:55.0	For ten years I've been sharing online conversations with people from around the globe.
1:01.0	I've seen how their lives carry on through twists and turns.
1:05.0	I'm enjoying and sometimes in extreme adversity.
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