大象传媒

Alexei Sayle takes a train journey and breaks the golden rule of travelling by train in the UK - he actually talks to his fellow passengers.

His first trip takes him from Cardiff to Portsmouth.

Among his many fellow travellers, he meets:

* David, who looks after tunnels for a living

* Tess, who speaks Russian and Ukrainian and has been trained to drive a tank

* Technician Megan from the National Oceanography Centre who, while many of us might be daunted by trying to deal with a leaking washing machine, loves fixing things and takes on the maintenance of mass spectrometers as part of the centre鈥檚 work on climate change.

Producers: Peter Lowe & Nick Symons

A Ride production for 大象传媒 Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2022.