Alan Dein talks to his Facebook friends across America about the election of Donald Trump. Just hours after the result, he speaks to Trump and Clinton supporters about the future. Show more

Alan is in the realm of love and loss. He connects with a single parent, snowbound in Nova Scotia, and hears stories of thwarted love online. Show more

Alan connects with a man shot by a sniper during the Lebanese civil war and a young man jailed for domestic violence. Show more

Alan Dein connects with strangers across the world, exploring what it means to belong. Show more

Alan Dein connects with strangers across the world, exploring the question of identity. Show more

Alan Dein hears personal stories of passing landscapes and motorway service stops from people for whom the road holds a particular significance in their life. Show more

Nature creates some of the most beautiful places to live, but can also bring destruction. Is it worth staying in paradise when you have lost everything in a disaster? Show more

Alan Dein searches for the stories that connect us in a changed world. Inspiring and moving accounts of how the pandemic has changed people's lives from Myanmar to Ecuador & Kenya. Show more

Alan Dein searches for the stories that connect us in a changed world. Inspiring and moving accounts of how the pandemic has changed people's lives from Armenia to Uganda. Show more

Alan Dein searches for the stories that connect us in a changed world. Today, he hears from Australian airline pilot turned bus driver, Peter, and Indian wedding planner, Vithika. Show more

Alan Dein searches for the stories that connect us in a changing world. Today, stories from people who’ve transformed their lives in Sierra Leone, India, Greece, the US and Uganda. Show more

Alan Dein connects with people around the world united by their desire to find fulfilment, including a young gay man in China and an Egyptian woman troubled by religious extremism Show more

Alan Dein reaches out to people across the globe to learn how they recover from difficulty. Helena keeps going in Venezuela and Isuru is a personal trainer with an unlikely story. Show more

Alan Dein talks to people from across the globe, down the line, to find out what happens when we leave the familiar behind for a new life elsewhere - love, fun or even boredom! Show more

Alan Dein speaks to people who, through choice or circumstance, are going it alone. He hears from a Chinese student in Los Angeles, a jilted woman in Australia and a London widow. Show more

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. Show more

Alan criss-crosses the world, talking through the night to people he randomly encounters online. In this episode, he hears from a man accused of bewitching and killing his wife. Show more

Alan Dein connects with random strangers around the world. His guests in this edition are in far-flung places and bustling cities but each, in their own way, is isolated. Show more

Alan Dein connects with random strangers around the world. Through extraordinary stories of tolerance, he hears what people endure in their political, religious and love lives. Show more

Alan Dein speaks to random strangers with a story of exile, whether through escape, economic necessity or adventure. Show more