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The Documentary: Don't log off: People are alike all over

Daria: Love and war

25/05/2022 GMT

Don't log off: People are alike all over

BBC World Service - The Documentary, Don't log off: People are alike all over

Alan Dein talks to anyone, anywhere about their lives and their world

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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