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…
Joss Ackland narrates a search through BBC archives for unheard gems from JRR Tolkien, as Oxford Academic Dr Stuart Lee discovers the unbroadcast offcuts from an interview given by the author. Producers: Anna Scott-Brown and Adam Fowler An Overtone production for BBC Radio 4 All programmes can be listened to on…
Anna Scott-Brown hears stories from the people who stop to sit beside her on benches around the country. Conversations on a Bench – Mumbles 16th & 22nd October 2016 In this edition, she is joined in Mumbles, on a bench overlooking Swansea Bay, by locals, holidaymakers and the family of the person to whom the…
Gillian Reynolds has been a professional writer about radio for fifty years and, for Archive on 4, unearths the voices that have echoed through her life as critic and broadcaster on commercial and BBC radio. Producer: Simon Elmes An Overtone production for BBC Radio 4 All programmes can be listened to…
Stephen Tuck discovers what brought Malcolm X to Oxford in 1964 just weeks before his assassination, and how the speech he made there was one of the most important of his life. Produced by Adam Fowler An Overtone production for BBC Radio 4. You can hear the programme in full on the BBC Radio 4…
Martha Lane Fox explores how musicians use the internet to create and distribute their work as network speeds increase. Producer: Gill Davies An Overtone production for BBC Radio 4. Visit the BBC Radio 4 webpage for the series. All programmes can be listened to on Overtone Soundcloud channel.
Can a year’s worth of radio be condensed into less than an hour? Lynne Truss does, with the help of a nightingale singing to a cello. An elephant tickling some ivories. A Mongolian thunderstorm throws listeners right across the kitchen, and we will learn the meaning of friendship, being from Yorkshire, and growing chrysanthemums. …
