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…
America’s Mosques Revisited Tharik Hussain gets some unexpected answers when paying a new visit to some of the Muslim communities in the US a few months after President Trump’s election…. BBC World Service First Transmission Date Fri 19 Jan 2018, 13:32 pm – Presented by Tharik Hussain Produced by Adam Fowler All programmes…
My journey to Catalonia with Overtone Productions for Radio 4’s The Art of Now has honestly been the trip of a lifetime. I set out with some trepidation (for the first time) to trace (in reverse) my father’s exile journey from Barcelona to England at the fall of Spain to the Franco dictatorship in 1939.…
BBC World Service Transmission Dates – First Transmission 11:00 GMT Saturday 25th August 2018 – Last Transmission 23:00 GMT Wednesday 29th August 2018 -First UK Placing 03:00 GMT Sunday 26th August 2018 Presented by Dr. Keon West Produced by Philippa Geering Note from the producer “The recording for the programme was completed by August 2017, and we are just putting…
If you missed Black Art Matters the first time around, here’s your chance to listen to this sensitive documentary. Using the rediscovery and exhibition of the work of artist Donald Rodney we assess the current state of Black British Art, at a particularly poignant time. Tune in BBC Radio 4 next Monday at 4pm. Presenter Sonia…
2017 was a marvellous year for Overtone. Our Upcoming Programmes for 2018 look pretty exciting too….
As part of their Heart and Soul series, BBC World Service is airing one of our most gripping programmes to date, Muslims in President Trump’s America. A year after Donald Trump was sworn in as President of America, Tharik Hussain revisits some of the Muslim communities in the US he last encountered just before the American election. Tharik asks the…
