No Place Like Home follows 6 couples as they return to NZ to rebuild their lives, often from scratch, in the wake of Covid. Ep 6 tells Richard and Alison's story. Read: [ Ссылка ]
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In April 2020 New Zealand shut its borders to keep Covid out. At the same time, confronted with the pandemic, the prospect of an economic meltdown and growing political uncertainty, thousands of Kiwis living overseas chose to come home.
But, getting home was never going to be easy.
No Place Like Home follows six couples as they return to New Zealand to rebuild their lives, often from scratch. Their stories are in turn uplifting, challenging, heart-breaking and joyful.
After all those years spent abroad, many of them must now rediscover where and what home actually is.
EPISODE 6: RICHARD AND ALISON
Richard, 65, is a retired radiographer, and Alison, 61, a semi-retired doctor. Both UK citizens, they had lived in New Zealand in the 1990s but returned to the UK to care for Alison’s aging parents after Alison’s brother, a policeman, took his own life.
They immigrate to New Zealand in 2020 to escape what they - both NHS workers - describe as “the UK’s increasingly populist politics and its shambolic response to Covid”.
Living on an idyllic off-grid property in Martinborough with sheep and alpacas to keep them company, they love their new life here. But they also suffer from “survivor’s guilt” over leaving the NHS at the height of the UK Covid outbreak.
Their peaceful life is disrupted when Alison, who works part time as a GP in Martinborough, must return to the UK to care for her ailing mother.
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