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– INVENTIVE –

OVERTONE’S LATEST PROJECT

Inventive: a brand-new podcast blending the lines between fact and fiction, as engineers and writers collaborate to create engaging and compelling stories. This ground-breaking intersection of STEM and Art gives a fantastic insight into the similarities between two seemingly disparate fields.
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Afterlives: Zeena and Martin

Afterlives brings together two people brought up by single dads after their mothers left the family: examining the legacy (of both pain and potential) and celebrating their fathers

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Remember Oluwale

Re-examining the death of black man David Oluwale and the ensuing trial of two police officers 50 years ago, assessing the significance then, and the continued relevance today.

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Inventive

Inventive: a brand-new podcast blending the lines between fact and fiction, as engineers and writers collaborate to create engaging and compelling stories. This ground-breaking intersection of STEM and Art gives a fantastic insight into the similarities between two seemingly disparate fields.

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Rwanda’s Returnees

Exiled Rwandan artists came back to build a new home. What contribution have they made to rebuilding the arts and the nation?

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Migraine

Artist Alice Trueman writes a specially commissioned musical score to explore migraine attacks...

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Conversations on a Bench - Series 3

In this edition, Anna sits on a bench in Strabane, Shetland and Derby....

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Unforgettable: Series 2

A return of the Overtone hit which uses technology to allow a living person to have a ‘conversation’ with the dead...

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Humiliation

In the wake of recent political upheavals, psychotherapist Philippa Perry examines the role that humiliation plays ...

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A New Church for the Red State

During the Russian Revolution of 1917, a group of religious reformers were plotting a better future for Russia’s souls...

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St Pancras Pianos

We hear the music and stories of those playing the street pianos in St Pancras Station...

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Pepys the Musician

Lucie Skeaping presents music commissioned by the famous diarist and played for the first time in 300 years...

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America’s Mosques – A Story Of Integration

Tharik Hussain joins the congregation of the oldest purpose-built Mosque in the US. ...

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The Maha Kumbh Mela

Mark Tully joins the pilgrims at the world's largest religious festival. Hindu traditions meet modern India...

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Malcolm X in Oxford

Stephen Tuck discovers what brought Malcolm X to Oxford in 1964 just weeks before his assassination...

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The Hidden Story of British Slavery

Sangita Myska uncovers how enslavement can happen within the UK’s borders...

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Hands

Philippa Perry explores what our hands tell us – through the touch, but also through the strain they have taken on...

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I Can’t Be Racist

Social psychologist Dr Keon West explores racial bias, and examines common misconceptions surrounding racism...

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Clarke’s Psalter

A contemporary poet navigates the relationship between spiritual understanding and poetics...

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Working Class Heroes

What do the working class heroes of 1960s cinema say about class in the Britain of 2018? ...

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Britain and Biafra 50 Years On

Fifty years after the Biafran war, Afua Hirsch scrutinises the explosion of news coverage and how aid agencies now work...

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Muslims in Trump’s America

Tharik Hussain gets some unexpected answers when visiting Muslim communities in the US President Trump’s election….

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Che Today

50th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara. What would he have made of the changes taking place in Cuba today?

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Black Art Matters

Sonia Boyce views current interest in black British art through the life of Donald Rodney...

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Conversations on a Bench – Beadnell

Anna Scott-Brown hears more stories from the people who sit beside her on a bench...

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Arts Technologica

Martha Lane Fox explores how musicians use the internet to create and distribute their work as network speeds increase.

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Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum, presented by Jools Gilson and produced by Adam Fowler for Overtone Productions.

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Fence Me In

Adam Fowler records artists in different locations to test how their creativity is affected by the acoustics of a space...

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Franco’s disappeared

Lucas Laursen joins families searching for loved ones disappeared during Spain’s Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship...

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Seeing Unseen Children

The stories of parents labelled abusers by society and the courts, as they learn to “see” their children...

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The Benefits of Nakedness

Clinical psychologist Dr. Keon West and Philippa Geering explore the global rise in naturism...

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The Story of Things

‘The Story of Things’ is a podcast series in which experts in their field discuss how we understand the world around us...

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Return to Catalonia

Anglo-Spanish artist Sonia Boué unearths the silenced story of Franco’s dictatorship in her own family history...

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Lines of Resistance

Bridget Minamore tells the story of the many ways that female poets have made and are making their voices heard...

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Conversations - Series 2

Anna Scott-Brown hears more stories from the people who stop to sit on her bench in Manchester, Edinburgh and London...

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Conversations - Series 1

Anna Scott-Brown hears stories of love, loss and hope from the strangers and friends as she sits on 'Rosie's Bench'...

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Tolkien: The Lost Recordings

Joss Ackland narrates a search through BBC archives for unheard gems from JRR Tolkien...

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Unforgettable – David Temple/Derek Jarman

A dialogue between the living and the dead, using clips from the archive...

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