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Coming Home
Re-visiting a childhood home in Sparkbrook, Birmingham
Casey Bailey
Returning to Birmingham after a holiday and reliving childhood memories in Nechells.
Double Vision
Tishani Doshi
Tishani Doshi performs an essay recorded at the BBC's Contains Strong Language Festival.
Roy McFarlane
Roy McFarlane performs an essay recorded at the BBC's Contains Strong Language Festival.
Isabelle Baafi
Isabelle Baafi performs an essay recorded at the BBC's Contains Strong Language Festival.
Anil Pradhan
Anil Pradhan performs an essay recorded at the BBC's Contains Strong Language Festival.
Alvin Pang
Alvin Pang performs an essay recorded at the BBC's Contains Strong Language Festival.
Vaughan Williams: Belonging
Vaughan Williams - Clare Shaw
Personal essays on what Vaughan Williams means to five different writers.
Vaughan Williams - Dr Rommi Smith
Vaughan Williams - Adrian McNally
Vaughan Willliams - Luke Turner
Vaughan Williams - Amanda Dalton
The Beeb and the Bard
Finding a way
Samuel West introduces a centenary celebration of BBC radio productions of Shakespeare.
Shakespeare in war and peace
Samuel West and Andrea Smith talk about performances of Shakespeare during WWII.
A century of Juliets
Actor Samuel West and Dr Andrea Smith discuss changing styles of acting in Shakespeare.
Radiophonia
Samuel West and Andrea Smith discuss sound in BBC radio's productions of Shakespeare.
Diversity
Samuel West and Andrea Smith discuss diversity in BBC radio's productions of Shakespeare.
Renewing the Past: The BBC and Early Music
1920s, Reviving Old Ayres
Nicholas Kenyon explores early music at the BBC in the 1920s.
1930s, Creating a National Music
Nicholas Kenyon explores early music at the BBC in the 1930s.
1940s, New Life for Old Music
Nicholas Kenyon explores early music at the BBC in the 1940s.
1950s and 60s, Performance in Period Style
Nicholas Kenyon explores early music at the BBC in the 1950s and 60s.
1970s, Into the Mainstream
Nicholas Kenyon explores early music at the BBC in the 1970s.
Listen Harder
Communication Withheld
Actor Sophie Stone explores communication, performance and deaf identity.
Forms of Communication
Visibility as Communication
Ownership of Communication
Unspoken Communication
A Landscape for Recovery
Pennie Stuart on cancer recovery above Loch Ness
Pennie Stuart describes her recovery from breast cancer in the woods close to her home.
Katharine Norbury on Companionship on the Thames
Writer Katharine Norbury explores our relationship with the non-human world.
Amy Liptrot on Motherhood in Owl Woods
Writer Amy Liptrot traces two years of visiting Owl Woods in Calderdale, West Yorkshire.
Louise Kenward on the Ocean as Mirror at Bexhill-on-Sea
Writer, artist and psychologist Louise Kenward describes her relationship with the sea.