Your lives at 1700GMT
| 13:59 UK time, Friday, 29 June 2007
When we were in Accra last month I got chatting with Elizabeth who works with the US Peace Corps in Togo. She told me how she likes to listen to the show while cooking her dinner in the village where she lives and that often some of her colleagues come round, eat and hear what you all have to say.
Plenty more of you who we've met on our travels have enthusiastically told us the routines that you follow while listening to the show. I remember Joseph in Nigeria saying he turns on his shortwave radio just before he goes to bed, and that sometimes the topics stop him from dozing off later (though I'm sure we have the opposite effect sometimes). It got me thinking...
I was fascinated. Not because I was flattered (though of course we all were), but because it gave me an insight into life in so many places and situations that I don't know.Call me greedy, but I'd love to hear more from you.
Just before we left for Africa, we heard from one listener in Romania who always tells her cat that WHYS is on and they go into the kitchen where she does the dishes and presumably the cat doesn't do too much. Alastair in Hong Kong has just emailed me today to say he goes one step further than Joseph and tunes in when he can't sleep. I know Tei in Detroit has us on in the background in the sandwich shop where he works because we've had the pleasure of eating there.
I could go on but I'll let you tell your stories. You've been telling me them in person and by email for months and I thought it'd be lovely to see all of your accounts in one place so everyone can read them.
So maybe you'll share with us what you're doing and where you are when you catch the show. No detail is too small. Please paint us a picture of how you live at 1700GMT.
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