In the wake of recent political upheavals, psychotherapist Philippa Perry examines the role that humiliation plays, at personal, economic and political levels. Perry speaks to the clinical psychologist Professor Paul Gilbert about this emotion, from the evolution of humankind to the 21st Century. She also talks to sociologist Professor Victor Seidler whose perspective is shaped…
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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…
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…
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…
America’s Mosques Revisited Tharik Hussain gets some unexpected answers when paying a new visit to some of the Muslim communities in the US a few months after President Trump’s election…. BBC World Service First Transmission Date Fri 19 Jan 2018, 13:32 pm – Presented by Tharik Hussain Produced by Adam Fowler All programmes…
