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Gaining an unfair advantage on court and balancing on a bus. The strange case of Entrance Proximity Compulsion (EPC). Diamond Michael, Steve Jobs and the isolation challenge.

David Hockney's "Bigger and Closer" and the state of 'sonder', in which each of us is at once a hero, a supporting cast member and an extra in overlapping stories.  With Sir Anthony Hopkins, John Steinbeck, the Magna Carta and the birthday problem. The joy and surprises of bus and train travel.

Starting is easier than stopping.  Agents of change, building trust, mutual respect and civility on the platforms of shared, public transport and transit.  As Churchill once said "Why do we regard history as of the past and forget we are making it?"

Safe and secure with strangers, surprising adventures, parking in a bus lane, the joys of the Far North Line (https://www.fofnl.org.uk/) and remember, there are more of us.

The creative ways that people use to make and save money, riding on buses and trains. This episode includes a magic bus, a convent of arthritic nuns, parking in Amsterdam, John LeCarre, Duke Ellington and more.  The opportunities to explore and earn are there to be grasped.

Productive time vs Elapsed time and overcoming cabin fever.  

It's not just how long a trip takes but what you can do with the time the trip lasts. 

The Man in Seat 61 and living, studying and playing on trains.

Nightingales

Wales and Japan

Rolling Stones

The Cliffhanger

Romance

Feedback from listeners and questions answered

Feel happier, more engaged, and learn new things - speak with a stranger.

Bus queues in Finland.

Insecurity and social interactions.

Brief Encounter

Strangers as trusted confidantes.

Bus drivers, the most thanked workers in Britain.

Autonomous vehicles, driverless cars and carless drivers.

Observing with sagacity

How American men cross their legs

Dealing with annoying travellers and drivers

The reluctance of the English to interact with fellow travellers, and the risk of being viewed as "drunk, drugged or deranged".

Amtrak community dining