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The Documentary: Detours: The last cola in the desert

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Detours 5: The last cola in the desert

02/10/2019 GMT

The last cola in the desert

Detours

BBC World Service - The Documentary, Detours, The last cola in the desert

A Costa Rican city is an unexpected home for people in search of a better life in the US

A small Costa Rican surfing city is the unexpected final home for people leaving Asia and Africa in search of a better life in the US.

A small Costa Rican surfing city is the unexpected final home for people leaving Asia and Africa in search of a better life in the US. 

Hosted by Academy Award-winning documentary film-maker Asif Kapadia (Amy, Senna, Diego Maradona), this is the last episode in a five-part series from BBC World Service in collaboration with Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute. Detours takes us off the main roads of our lives, following people who didn’t end up where they expected. 

Producer: Katy Long

The Documentary: Detours

Over five episodes we meet five communities on journeys away from the lives they expected.

For our second collaboration with Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute, the BBC World Service presents a new radio and podcast documentary series Detours.
 
Detours take us off main roads onto the indirect routes, and are journeys which often end up at different destinations to the ones we expect. A detour offers the unexpected, an opportunity for reflection, or encounters which make us laugh, or are exciting, or even tragic.

Over five episodes we meet five communities on journeys away from the lives they expected in Greece, India, Macedonia, Latin America and Asia.

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