Summer Fling Season Begins With The Return Of CNN’s ‘Chance Encounters.’

CNN Podcasts — the new branding of what had been CNN Audio — has announced today the return of Chance Encounters, hosted by CNN travel writer Francesca Street and based on her digital column of the same name. The show will continue to highlight the true stories Street has captured of friendships and relationships formed on the road, with the upcoming set of episodes built around a “summer love” theme.

“Our show is the perfect listen for the summer vacation season,” said Street. “Whether on the beach or in the skies, I hope these episodes will be a fitting soundtrack for all of your adventures this year.”

By utilizing the original interview session recordings, the first season of Chance Encounters brought Street’s reporting to life and invited audiences to experience the raw emotion and wonder in her subjects’ voices for themselves. The upcoming set of episodes will continue to envelop listeners in more of these feel-good tales of travel fate: from a librarian and a yacht captain unexpectedly crossing paths in Mazatlán, Mexico in the summer of 1968, to a decades-long missed connection that began as a teenage crush on a 1993 European holiday. The first episode of the new season follows Catherine Tondelli, a California woman who met her Italian husband, Fausto, in front of the Trevi Fountain in Rome, right after she threw three coins into the fountain’s waters and made a wish.

The second season of the series will premiere on Friday (June 27). Future episodes will debut on Fridays.