This hour: a lobster diver in Honduras, a chocolate taster in France, a movie director in Nigeria, and other stories that reveal the workaday world in all its globalized complexity, one person at a time.

(All profiles produced by Homelands Productions.)

Agus Laodi - Pirate
by Kelly McEvers

Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen - Movie Director
by Jonathan Miller

Blair Ghent - Oil Worker
by Chris Brookes

Chloe Doutre-Roussel - Chocolate Taster
by Jonathan Miller

Romulo Greham - Lobster Diver
by Claudine LoMonaco

Laowang - Express Mail Driver
by Sandy Tolan

Featured Music:

Melodium, "Social Phobia," Anaemia (Audio Dregs, 2004)
Chihei Hatakeyama, "Bonfire on the Field," Minima Moralia (Kranky, 2006)
Amon Tobin, "Defocus," Bricolage (Ninja Tune, 1997)
Chihei Hatakeyama, "Towards a Tranquil Marsh," Minima Moralia (Kranky, 2006)
E-Rock, "Living, Breathing, Etc," Conscious (Audio Dregs, 2003)