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…
Our brand new documentary, Pursuit of Beauty: Hurricane Bells, airs next Tuesday 13th November 2018, 11.30am on BBC Radio 4, tune in! What does climate change sound like? We follow artist Peter Shenai as he casts bells from Hurricane Katrina data and asks New Orleanians who lived through the storm to ring each one. Over the last…
Clinical psychologist Dr. Keon West and Philippa Geering explore the global rise in naturism. No longer seen as a cultish fad of the 70s, it is increasingly gaining ground around the world, not only in Europe and the US, but also in countries such as Senegal and India. Presented by Dr. Keon West Produced by Philippa…
Conversations on a Bench – Strabane Anna Scott-Brown hears more stories from the people who stop to sit beside her on benches around the country. In this edition, Anna sits on a bench in Strabane on the Irish Border. Throughout the programme, a specially commissioned work by the poet Maureen Boyle draws on the voices…
BBC Radio 4 Transmission Date Sunday 9th September 2018, 4.30pm Repeated Saturday 15th September 2018, 11.30pm Presented by Edward Clarke Produced by Anna Scott-Brown A contemporary poet navigates the relationship between spiritual understanding and poetics. Edward Clarke examines his process of engaging with the Psalms, and scrutinising his belief that poetry is the most powerful…
I began making the audio diary for this programme quite soon after I began making these poems or transplantations of the psalms. I must admit I was a rather reticent speaker at first. I felt quite self-conscious about speaking into the device and was rather suspicious of the whole process of talking about the process…
We are proud to present a short documentary, The Long Road to the White Hotel, telling the story of the many failed attempts to bring DM Thomas’s award-winning novel to the screen and the making of the Radio 4 drama of Dennis Potter’s screenplay. The documentary will precede the broadcast of Dennis Potter’s unproduced screenplay of DM Thomas’ The…
