‘The Story of Things’ is a podcast series hosted by the University of York. Experts in their field discuss how we understand the world around us and what researchers and communities are doing to improve our environment, culture, health and wellbeing. Series One and Two are supported by the York Festival of Ideas and presented…
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We are overjoyed to reveal that we will be part of this year’s Telling Tales International Film & Audio Documentary Festival! Our programme “The Art of Now: Return to Catalonia” has been selected and will be part of an amazing lineup of non-fiction cinema and audio documentaries. The Overtone team are also excited to partake in a Q&A session after…
Fifty years on, through archive material and first-hand testimonies, Afua Hirsch looks back on the Nigerian- Biafran War, the images of its famine, and their legacy in Britain. If one word ruptured the early optimism felt in Britain for its ex-colonies, it was Biafra. Pictures of black children with distended bellies, headlines like ‘Land of…
In case you missed the broadcast of Humiliation last Sunday, we are pleased to announce that the programme is now available on BBC iPlayer via this link. It will shortly be available on our Soundcloud channel as well.
In the wake of recent political upheavals, psychotherapist Philippa Perry examines the role that humiliation plays, at personal, economic and political levels. At the heart of this programme is the effect that humiliation has upon an individual and its potential to shape the behaviour of both individuals and communities. We hear the life story of…
Sonia Boué’s Return to Catalonia on BBC Radio 4 has gone down rather well. Read some of the emails, and social media messages we received here and read her blog about making the programme.
