蜜芽传媒

When Will Buckingham's partner died, he coped with his grief by throwing his doors open to new people, and travelling alone to far-flung places among strangers.

Beginning with the experience of personal grief, he draws on his knowledge as a philosopher and anthropologist, as well as a keen and wide-roaming traveller, to explore the tensions, anxieties, joys and rewards of our relationship with strangers.

Taking in stories of loneliness, exile, travel and hospitality from early history, classical Greece and Rome to the present day, he holds out the possibility of an antidote to the fears and isolation of an increasingly fragmented world.

Written by philosopher and traveller, Will Buckingham - first published in 2021.

Omnibus of five parts abridged by Sara Davies.

Read by Mark Jeary-Fairbairn.

Producer: Sara Davies

First broadcast on 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 in August 2021.