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Alan Dein connects with strangers across the world via social media.

Alan Dein connects with strangers across the world via social media, exploring the things that unite people across cultures and borders.

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Don't Log Off: Series 7: Episode 1: Taking Flight

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Episode 1: Taking Flight

Series 7

Taking Flight

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Alan Dein embarks on a new series of nocturnal conversations with random strangers online.

Alan Dein embarks on a new series of nocturnal conversations with random strangers online, including a Nigerian trapped in Abu Dhabi and a grounded Canadian test pilot.

Alan Dein embarks on a new series of nocturnal excursions via Facebook and Skype, hearing the real life dramas of random strangers. 

Alan holes himself up in a studio through the night and invites the online world to talk to him. Knowing nothing about the people he is about to talk to, he settles down for an evening of intriguing encounters. 

Tonight he connects with a Nigerian trapped in Abu Dhabi, a Hungarian woman who found salvation in the birth of her son, a Dutch man who believes he's a reincarnated slave and a grounded Canadian test pilot coming to terms with the fact he'll never fly again.

Producer: Laurence Grissell.

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Alan Dein connects with the world online, hearing the real-life dramas of random strangers

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