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…
We are thrilled to announce that Adam Fowler won the Best Creative Documentary/Feature Maker Bronze Award at the Audio Production Awards 2017! Last night, at the ninth Audio Production Awards ceremony held at the prestigious BFI Southbank in London, Adam was rewarded for his “exceptional understanding and use of sound to convey a story and emotion”. The peeps at…
On the back of the overwhelming success of Conversations on a Bench in Manchester, we are thrilled to announce two more editions of Conversations on a Bench (Presenter Anna Scott-Brown, Producer Adam Fowler) for BBC Radio 4. First, we head to Edinburgh, with a commissioned poem by Janette Ayachi. The programme will air this Sunday 22nd October @ 4.30pm, repeated Saturday 28th October @ 11.30 p.m. Janette…
We would like to thank you all for the great response to the first programme in the current series of Conversations on a Bench that took place in Manchester, with a commissioned poem by Andrew McMillan. We are as always absolutely delighted to read your comments! More Conversations are in the pipeline so do tune in… Your feedback… From…
A New Church for the Red State Presenter Caroline Wyatt, Producer Adam Fowler. On the BBC World Service from 21st October @ various times on World Service Radio until 25th October, and online. One hundred years ago, the Russian Revolution of 1917 brought a radical political change. But at the same time, a lesser-known group of religious reformers…
As part of Overtone’s ‘Octoberfest’, Lines of Resistance, explores how women – particularly women of colour – have pushed back against the poetry establishment to create their own literary narratives. Make sure you tune in tomorrow! Presenter Bridget Minamore, Producer Matthew Teller, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Sunday 15th October @ 4.30 p.m., repeated…
In case you’ve missed the broadcast of Che Today and St Pancras Pianos, both programmes are now available on iPlayer. Click on the links below for your chance to catch up with these explorative documentaries. Che Today Presenter Will Grant, Producer Gill Davies on BBC World Service. First broadcast on 3rd October 2017. iPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csvp6g This year…
