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…
Bridget Kendall asks why there is a proportionately high amount of Russian and East European dancers in Strictly Come Dancing. The programme features dancers Kristina Rihanoff and Gleb Savchenko who discuss their careers and their dedication to dance. Dancers from previous generations talk about the hardships they faced while dancing in Soviet Russia when ballroom dancing was…
Mark Tully joins the pilgrims at the world’s largest religious festival. Hindu traditions meet modern India at the confluence of the sacred rivers Ganges and Yamuna where millions of believers come to bathe. Producer: Adam Fowler An Overtone production for BBC Radio 4 This programme won a Gold Award at the New York Audio Festival…
