<p>Loneliness is a universal experience, for each of us at some point in our lives. Journalist Ros Thomas travelled the world to investigate, and find the antidote. </p><p>Ros spent a year travelling around the world to research something all of us have experienced — loneliness.</p><p>She met an old man who had learned to thrive through crushing grief with the help of a small, desktop robot.</p><p>Ros visited a share house in Sweden where pensioners live with young asylum seekers, who care for each other like grandparents and grandchildren.</p><p>And she explored her own early and devastating experience of loneliness — when her father abandoned the family when Ros was a tiny child.</p><p>This episode of Conversations touches on loneliness, isolation, being a friend, social connection, community modern history, life story, fatherhood, absent fathers, personal stories, family dynamics, fathers, solutions to loneliness, the loneliness epidemic, Churchill Fellowship and connection.</p>