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Don't log off: People are alike all over
Alan Dein talks to anyone, anywhere about their lives and their world.
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.
Producer: Mark Burman
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Sat 28 May 202201:32GMT
BBC World Service East Asia
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- Wed 25 May 202210:32GMTBBC World Service
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