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Adam Fowler

Adam Fowler
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Anna Scott-Brown

Anna Scott-Brown
Director
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Philippa Geering

Philippa Geering
Audio Producer

Candace Wilson

Candace Wilson
Assistant Producer

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– Listen Again  –

PURSUIT OF BEAUTY: HURRICANE BELLS


Artist, Peter Shenai is creating a new kind of art, viscerally bringing climate
disruption into human understanding.
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 – BLOG –

THE BENEFITS OF NAKEDNESS?

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Philippa is in Bengal, on the last leg (!) of the location recording for The Benefits of Nakedness. “The length of the journey and the general secrecy of their plans did very little to allay my fears that this was actually rather dangerous.”
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PROGRAMMES

New programmes are always in the making at Overtone but here are some we made earlier

 

Unforgettable: Series 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Malcolm X in Oxford

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chrysanthemum, presented by Jools Gilson and produced by Adam Fowler for Overtone Productions.
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The Benefits of Nakedness

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

‘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

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

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

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

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

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

Unforgettable – David Temple/Derek Jarman

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

Exciting 2018!

2017 was a marvellous year for Overtone. Our Upcoming Programmes for 2018 look pretty exciting too….  

2nd February 2018

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How are Muslims coping in Trump’s America?

As part of their Heart and Soul series, BBC World Service is airing one of our most gripping programmes to date, Muslims in President…

18th January 2018

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APAS Award for Adam Fowler!

We are thrilled to announce that Adam Fowler won the Best Creative Documentary/Feature Maker Bronze Award at the Audio Production…

24th November 2017

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A little more conversation…

On the back of the overwhelming success of Conversations on a Bench in Manchester, we are thrilled to announce two more editions of…

20th October 2017

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Thank you all!

We would like to thank you all for the great response to the first programme in the current series of Conversations on a Bench…

20th October 2017

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Don’t miss!

A New Church for the Red State Presenter Caroline Wyatt, Producer Adam Fowler. On the BBC World Service from 21st October @…

20th October 2017

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