BBC Radio 4 Transmission Date 26 February 2019 Produced by Philippa Geering Social psychologist Dr Keon West explores racial bias, and the concepts of both conscious and unconscious bias, drawing on the latest psychological and sociological research. He examines common misconceptions surrounding racism and examines how bias is formed, asking how far we are responsible for…
2019
Conversations on a Bench – Strabane Anna Scott-Brown hears more stories from the people who stop to sit beside her on benches around the country. In this edition, Anna sits on a bench in Strabane on the Irish Border. Throughout the programme, a specially commissioned work by the poet Maureen Boyle draws on the voices…
BBC Radio 4 Transmission Date 01 February 2019 Produced by Anna Scott-Brown The stories of parents labelled abusers by society and the courts, as they learn to “see” their children and recognise how their own pasts influence their parenting. Monica* is a single mother whose first daughter was taken into care. She was accepted onto…
