Coexisting
Welcome to Coexisting! Audio stories of those currently sheltering at home due to Coronavirus all over the world. Part information, part human story archive but mainly trying to get an uplifting bent on this insane situation we find ourselves in.We have people from from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Canada, United States Australia, UK, Portugal, Iceland, France, Italy and Taiwan so far and the list keeps growing.
Episodes
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This is it - a 2 minute race through the podcast
A compilation episode I put together for a competition entry.
8 questions 8 voices - what does it mean to coexist with Coronavirus....?
Today we speak to speaker and life consultant Jose Carlos (JC) in his home office in Tijuana, Mexico.
JC and I met through a podcast network and his enthusiasm for this project and his commitment to creating in a crisis really stood out for me.
And as it is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities today, December 3, JC's episode was important to share as he...
Today we speak to Alia in an exhausted evening between her many media appearances, sitting between her bed and her desk in London on the edge of summer.
CW: limited mention in episode of suicide and domestic violence
* how Alia went from psychotherapist to activist appearing on our screens almost daily, fighting for the survival of the NHS during Covid for the campaign 'Keep Our NHS Public' and creating the first 'People's Covid E...
It is a year from the date that the World Health Organisation declared Covid a global pandemic and exactly 365 days since today's guest, Mario, set foot on a plane - an anniversary of deep significance for this international aid worker, sitting in the corner of his home where he has carved out an office, overlooking a sea of skyscrapers in Dubai
* Dubai, known int...
Its World Environment Day and in honour of this we pop back to China in Month 5 to speak to Grant, global sustainability and environmental advisor - at his desk, between night and day, China and Holland - with a deep hold on the historical legacy of this year.
* the changes he has seen take place overnight in the sustainability world as a result of Covid and why this can't be was...
Day 134 and we speak to poet Togara Muzanenhamo at his writing desk in Harare, Zimbabwe.
We spoke at an incredibly tense time in Zimbabwe and covered what was happening out on the street, but also how Togara was carving out space during the crisis to write.
Including at the end of the episode a beautiful quiet and transporting...
Its Lunar New Year and the Year of the Ox!
As a love letter to those that celebrate this beautiful holiday a re-release of our Vietnam episode to celebrate the lunar new year or Tết
- a shortened form of Tết Nguyên Đán meaning "Festival of the First Morning of the First Day"
We spoke to Creighton at his desk in a dark noisy night in the capital Ho Chi Minh City.
A fascinating episode from back in June 2020 where we discussed how d...
Its Lunar New Year and the Year of the Ox!
As a love letter to those that celebrate this beautiful holiday a re-release of one of our very first episodes in China all about the unique Chinese New Year that was 2020.
With wonderful journalist Bec, who reported through the very beginning of the Covid crisis.
Insight from her travels near Wuhan back in Chinese New Year 2020.
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Its Lunar New Year and the Year of the Ox!
As a love letter to those that celebrate a re-release of one of our very first episodes set in Hong Kong.
Very early in the world's Covid journey, but already almost three months into lockdown in parts of Asia where it began end January 2020.
- We talk about the stark differences between people's approach to Coronavirus in 'West' and 'East'.
- resilience among students graduating during C...
Though unplanned it was exactly 9 months to the day that lockdown began in the UK that I spoke to Dr Michael Head, Senior Research Fellow in Global Health at the University of Southampton at his home in Dorset on 16 December 2020.
Expert in Global Health, frequent Media commentator on Covid-19 he was someone I had been tracking down for some time ever since I spotted him on Linked...
A close out episode of a momentous year bringing back some familiar voices.
Day 138 and we speak to Father Max in front of his makeshift altar that he has set up at home in his study in Newmarket, England
I was so affected by this episode, this quiet man and the obvious care he had for his community and his town and the very difficult circumstances people were dealing with. Its full of both hope and hardship and shows a very human side to...
Day 110 and we speak to David under the eaves in his apartment in Paris, France.
France, as has many parts of Europe, just this week gone back into strict lockdown as Winter approaches and at this sad time we revisit the heavy lockdown that Paris experienced bordering one of the worst affected countries, Italy, at the beginning of the pandemic.
A super choppy little mini episode from the road as we headed out on a little journey.
* what's been going on in your host's world on the West Coast of the US
* Intro to Pod2Pod a mini series with my podcasting friends in honour of International Podcast Day on Sept 30
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Day 35 we speak to Kate Winter, children's illustrator and writer, in her shed studio in Cambridge, England.
It was early days when we spoke, and it was all about how to create rhythm out of the emotional chaos of the beginning of lockdown when strict lockdown was in place but before the UK descended into a mess of unclear direction from the Govt that have marked the country since then.
Spring was in full bloom in that corner of t...
Day 58 we speak to Liane at her desk in Wellington, New Zealand - although its June, its getting cold, the cusp of winter in the Southern Hemisphere.
She talks about the fascinating details of Prime Minister Jacinda Adern's leade...
Day 109 Redford, Michigan we speak to Terry in his bedroom, in a part of the world that had the first large outbreaks of the virus in the United States.
We connected over a well-loved audio project initially and I invited Terry to speak. I loved Terry's beautiful quiet way of conjuring a space. We talk libraries and sound, the novel Camus'...
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