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Adam Fowler
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Anna Scott-Brown
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Philippa Geering
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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 –

LATEST BROADCAST

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.
Broadcasts Tuesday 30th November, 11am, BBC Radio 4.

– REMEMBER OLUWALE –

FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

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.
Broadcast Saturday, 16th October, 8pm, BBC Radio 4.

PROGRAMMES

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

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

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.

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.

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?

Migraine

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

Conversations on a Bench - Series 3

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

Unforgettable: Series 2

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

Humiliation

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

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...

St Pancras Pianos

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

Pepys the Musician

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

America’s Mosques – A Story Of Integration

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

The Maha Kumbh Mela

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

Malcolm X in Oxford

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

The Hidden Story of British Slavery

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

Hands

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

I Can’t Be Racist

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

Clarke’s Psalter

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

Working Class Heroes

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

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...

Muslims in Trump’s America

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

Che Today

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

Black Art Matters

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

Conversations on a Bench – Beadnell

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

Arts Technologica

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

Chrysanthemum

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

Fence Me In

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

Franco’s disappeared

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

Seeing Unseen Children

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

The Benefits of Nakedness

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

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...

Return to Catalonia

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

Lines of Resistance

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

Conversations - Series 2

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

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'...

Tolkien: The Lost Recordings

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

Unforgettable – David Temple/Derek Jarman

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

Latest News

New edition of “Conversations on a Bench”

BBC Radio 4 at 9am and 9.30pm, August 29th: in the first programme of the latest series of Overtone’s Conversations on…

20th August 2017

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Overtone Around the World

Follow Producer Philippa Geering and Presenter Dr. Keon West, to India, Germany, Senegal and around the UK in their quest…

23rd June 2017

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Black Art Matters

Sonia Boyce reassesses the work of her friend and colleague, artist Donald Rodney, and his influence on British black art…

20th June 2017

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Pepys on YouTube

As some of you might already know, we organised a concert of music written for Samuel Pepys by composer Cesare…

18th May 2017

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Dionysios Kyropoulos

Our BBC Radio 4 programme, Pepys the Musician, exploring the post-diary musical life of Samuel Pepys, features the work of…

30th March 2017

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Unforgettable

Thank you….. to everyone who got in touch about our series, Unforgettable on BBC Radio 4. “One of the most…

30th March 2017

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