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…
In Overtone Productions’ series America’s Mosques – A Story of Integration, presenter and travel writer Tharik Hussain asks what role mosques have had in American history and meets Muslims from some of America’s oldest and newest communities. This series, produced for BBC World Service, was shortlisted for the prestigious award by the Association for International Broadcasting…
Another two episodes of the popular programme for BBC Radio 4, Conversations on a Bench, are scheduled for October. Started in 2014, this is based on a simple yet very effective idea: as Anna Scott-Brown asks gentle but searching questions, hidden lives of ordinary people come to light. Sharing deep stories, common threads are revealed by…
Five guests have a conversation with someone with whom they had, or wished to have, a strong connection. The twist: that someone is dead. Using Cutting-edge digital technology, Adam Fowler has produced five episodes of Unforgettable. Colin Johnson talks to his grandmother Maya Angelou. David Temple has an imagined conversation with his late brother-in-law,…
Searching through the archives of the BBC, Oxford Academic Dr Stuart Lee finds some previously undiscovered gems. The previously never broadcast parts of one of Tolkien’s rare interviews give a unexpected picture of Tolkien as a playful academic. Narrated by Joss Joss Ackland, and produced by Adam Fowler and Anna Scott-Brown, this programme gives surprising insights…
In a two-part series Tharik Hussain asks what role mosques have had in American history. He meets Muslims from some of America’s oldest communities before continuing his journey across America to find out what role mosques are playing in the country today. America’s Mosques – A Story Of Integration Programme 1: Old Mosques broadcast…
