Our new programme, Rwanda’s Returnees is coming up next on BBC radio 4. The arts are flourishing in Rwanda. This richness in theatre, literature, dance, film and photography has been made possible by exiled Rwandan artists who moved back home after the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi. Many of them were born overseas. Their parents fled…
2019
According to the most recent Home Office statistics, the largest national grouping held in slavery here in the UK is British. Sangita Myska uncovers the hidden story of these victims, revealing who they are and how their enslavement can happen within the UK’s borders. Speaking to Emilie Martin of the Salvation Army, the Independent Anti-Slavery…
BBC Radio 4: 13:30pm Transmission Date: 4 August 2019 Produced by Adam Fowler We follow Adam Fowler as he records artists at work in different locations – from the ramparts of a ruined Northumberland castle to a small, echoing chamber – to test how their creativity is affected by the acoustics of a space. There has been plenty…
BBC Radio 4: 1130am Transmission Date: 30 July 2019 Produced by Philippa Geering We use our hands a lot. When we’re making something, we use our hands. When we’re doing something, we’re using our hands. To help us communicate to others through gesture and touch, our hands are in use. What do our hands really reveal…
Migraine is a new Overtone documentary part of BBC Radio 4 series Art of Now, where sound artist Alice Trueman writes a specially commissioned musical score to explore migraine attacks and their possible link to creativity. Attempts to describe migraine have been made in visual arts and literature but here, for the first time, Alice Trueman creates…
BBC Radio 4 Transmission Date Monday 18th March 2019, 11.00am Presented by Lucas Laursen Produced by Anna Scott-Brown In the first part of this double-bill documentary, Franco’s disappeared, Lucas Laursen joins families searching for loved ones disappeared during Spain’s Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship. He starts at a rare repatriation of the remains of 22 men and women missing…
