Singapore-based Jeremy Wagstaff catches up with friends around the world to talk about life during the Coronavirus Pandemic. The podcast focuses on lives behind the headlines, exploring how people from Afghanistan to Ottawa cope with quarantines, isolation, collapsing businesses, separated families, near escapes, mental challenges related to solitude, stress, grief and other issues. Jeremy hears his friends' experiences, and will revisit them over the weeks and months to come, as some countries return to something approaching normality, while others are only starting to enter the tunnel of...
A return to Taiwan, an island off the Chinese coast, and a story that's largely been ignored unless it's to do with the standoff with China itself, which still regards Taiwan as a renegade province, and subject to eventual reunification, peaceful or...
Published 10/06/20
Manuela Saragosa, who works for the BBC World Service but was speaking in a personal capacity as a friend, tells us about life in London as a single mother and a published author, trying to write some fiction on the side.
Published 10/06/20
Another old friend, this time from university days, a guy called Johnny who turned doing lighting for our campus band to into a skill and a career. Johnny was out in Asia at the same time as me, and so we ended up actually living together for a while in...
Published 10/06/20