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...

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. 

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...

This week's podcast is another interesting one, for political but also personal reasons. It's another old friend, Alexandra Hall-Hall, whom I met when she was working at the British Embassy in Bangkok in 1991. I lost contact with her shortly after she...

This episode is with Christine Bader, who I first met in Indonesia in the early 2000s. I remember her as a fixture in the Cinnebar in Jakarta. She was working with BP managing the company's relationship with NGOs. In those days I was a wizened cynical...

I reunite with my old bookselling friend Martin Latham, who I haven't spoken to in more than 30 years. He sounds the same, and has a book out, the tales of a bookseller. He is the kind of person you want to just sit and have a beer with, or ask for...

We find out how Tim's former journalist and now pepper farmer in Australia, is getting on. Hear his back story in Season 1, episodes 2 and 14. 

We return to Susan, my childhood friend in northern England, to find out how she's coping, living alone and running an essential business and worrying about her mother. Hear her backstory in episodes 8 and 12. 

Jeremy talks to James, Japanese-Canadian CEO and an early entrepreneur in mobile health tech, who finds himself in mid-lockdown in Tokyo working the phones to help out friends and colleagues to fill some of the void in the international war on Covid-19....

Jeremy Wagstaff writes: As part of his Life in a Pandemic podcast series, Jeremy talks again to Susan, a childhood friend he spoke to a month ago. She's taking cover in her home in northern England, where she runs a company that makes colours -- for...

Jeremy Wagstaff writes: My former colleague Joyce, still in her native Taiwan. Is the poster child of how to handle a pandemic still doing well, or have things, as she feared, slipped? Joyce is one of the several people who are sheltering in places that...

Jeremy Wagstaff writes: The latest in my series on lives disrupted by the coronavirus. We return to Dinny in Tana Toraja, the remote highland home her husband's Toraja people. Dinny is grappling with economic crisis as her company of weavers implodes...

It's April, time to revisit Tim and his pepper farm in Braidswood, Australia. 

Jeremy talks to Joyce, a Taiwanese friend proud of how her government had confronted COVID-19, despite of, or perhaps because of, it not being a member of the World Health Organisation. But she sees problems ahead.

Jeremy talks to Susan, an English friend from primary school who is trying to balance the company she runs with the demands of family and the growing menace of COVID-19, in the early days of the UK lockdown.

Jeremy talks to Dinny, an Indonesian based in a remote mountain top on the island Sulawesi, who offers a strikingly conflicted view of the coronavirus as it looms over her country.

Jeremy talks to Toby, a concert pianist turned entrepreneur, who is finding the Covid-19 crisis is having an impact few could have predicted.

Antonia, a London-based activist, about how Brits, and her dishwasher-emptying husband, are coping as COVID-19 comes to Clapham.

Jeremy talks to an old colleague and friend Sayed Salahuddin, a Kabul-based Afghan journalist, about the looming COVID threat.

The second interview in our series, where Jeremy catches up with a former student from China, who is studying in the U.S.

Jeremy talks to a former colleague, news photographer Tim Wimborne, who gave up the media life to realise a long held dream of running his own farm in Australia.

Introduction to a new podcast Life in a Pandemic with veteran journalist Jeremy Wagstaff.