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…
Presenter Dr. Keon West and producer Philippa Geering cast off their clothes in the pursuit of wellbeing in this programme which takes them from Scotland to Senegal via Germany, India and the rather chilly south of England. Keon revels in the pleasures of stripping off in public places. Philippa is not quite so sure. By…
What do the working class heroes of 1960s cinema say about class in the Britain of 2018? Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Taste of Honey and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner – Woodfall films from a time when the working class was at the forefront of visions of the future. The BFI’s senior…
Today, a big shout-out to all the reviewers of our second series of Unforgettable. We are overwhelmed by the feedback from the press so far, thank you! And in case you missed the series last week, you can tune in to the BBC4 iPlayer. Enjoy! “If proof were needed that radio will survive the onslaught of…
A return of the Overtone hit which uses digital technology to allow a living person to have a ‘conversation’ with someone no longer with us, using clips from the archives. “Adam Fowler is a weaver of dreams. Every early afternoon last week, Radio 4 featured another five of his uniquely fabricated conversations with dead…
We are delighted to introduce Overtone’s latest recruit, Candace Wilson. The very talented Candace is joining the team to work part-time for Overtone as an Assistant Producer. She’s assisted on OBs and facilitated band recordings for live radio sessions. After spending two years working in music radio at Virgin Radio UK, Candace has made the…
In the wake of recent political upheavals, psychotherapist Philippa Perry examines the role that humiliation plays, at personal, economic and political levels. Perry speaks to the clinical psychologist Professor Paul Gilbert about this emotion, from the evolution of humankind to the 21st Century. She also talks to sociologist Professor Victor Seidler whose perspective is shaped…
