BBC Radio 4 Transmission Date Tuesday 13th November 2018, 11.30am – Repeated Monday 18th March 2019 at 4pm on BBC Radio 4 Presented by Peter Shenai Produced by Matthew Teller and Adam Fowler People need stories – but climate change is remote from us. How can we make climate change human? Where’s the story in atmospheric…
Fifty years after the Biafran war, Afua Hirsch scrutinises the explosion of news coverage with its defining images of hungry black children, revealing how messages were manipulated and a particular idea of ‘Africa’ fixed in public imagination. It changed the way aid agencies work and how Britain saw the world. Presented by Afua…
Anglo-Spanish artist Sonia Boué charts an artistic journey that sees her retracing (in reverse) the exile of her father José María Garcia Lora, upon leaving Spain during the Civil War. Partly in response to the current unrest in Catalonia we end up in Barcelona, a seminal place of memory for Sonia and whose fall in…
The body is a palimpsest of the events of life. As I lay in bed, wakeful, the night before the Brighton World Naked Bike Ride, I mused on the story my body told. The paleness of my skin was testament not just to my ethnicity, but also to my habit of covering it. My forearms…
Follow Producer Philippa Geering and Presenter Dr. Keon West, to India, Germany, Senegal and around the UK in their quest to understand different cultural attitudes to nudity. Ride with Producer Gill Davies and Presenter Will Grant in Cuba on the trail of Che Guevara as we mark the 50th anniversary of the Cuban’s death. Return to the…
Sonia Boyce reassesses the work of her friend and colleague, artist Donald Rodney, and his influence on British black art today. Donald Rodney, considered one of the most exciting talents of his generation in the 1980s and 90s, never lived to fulfil his potential. Now, Sonia meets some of the people he left behind, and…
I’m getting naked a lot this summer. In public. All around the world: from the south coast of England to the Casamance in Senegal. I’ve not done it before…and I’m not sure I ever would have, except that I’ve been commissioned to make a two-part series about the benefits of nakedness. And I don’t even…
As some of you might already know, we organised a concert of music written for Samuel Pepys by composer Cesare Morelli and performed at Saint Olave Church in London last April. These compositions were interpreted for the first time since Pepys would have played and sung them nearly 300 years ago and the evening was…
Our BBC Radio 4 programme, Pepys the Musician, exploring the post-diary musical life of Samuel Pepys, features the work of Dionysios on the manuscripts of Pepys’ household musician Cesare Morelli. Here he shares his story of how the documentary came to be and his thoughts about working with Overtone. Making ‘Pepys the Musician’ Best…
