We are always so thrilled to read your emails and social media messages, do keep them coming! Here are a selected few you sent about the Return to Catalonia programme: “I wouldn’t have believed it would be possible to have so many interweaving streams of sound … the effect was to create something in three…
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The art of now – Return to Catalonia Anglo-Spanish artist Sonia Boué unearths the silenced story of Franco’s dictatorship in her own family history and its ramifications in Spain today. Hear the programme and read Sonia’s blog about the recording trip.
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.…
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…
