This is the last episode in our series A Stitch in Time, where young people tell stories from their family’s past. We have a taste of sugarcane from Guangdong province in China, we meet a Jewish boy in Baltimore who remembers his own circumcis

A Stitch in Time: Part 5 – On Cowsheds and Velvet Dresses

Dec 10th, 2022 29m

In this episode we have four stories set in the Czech or Moravian countryside, tales of ordinary people living through times that were anything but ordinary. Three of them take us back to the Stalinist years of the early 1950s in Czechoslovaki

A Stitch in Time: Part 4 – Three Heroes

Dec 3rd, 2022 26m 48s

We bring three very different tales of heroism during the 1930s and 1940s. The first is a classic story of wartime courage and adventure, as seventeen-year-old Rade Meech-Tatić recounts a dramatic episode in the life of his grandfather as a pi

A Stitch in Time: Part 3 – Exile and Return

Nov 26th, 2022 26m 12s

In the third episode of our series looking at the recent past through the eyes of the youngest generation, we hear a story of exile and return. Fourteen-year-old Eva Nováková chose the format of a short radio play to draw us into the world of

A Stitch in Time: Part 2 – A New Circle of Life

Nov 19th, 2022 29m 1s

In this episode we continue our journey into the recent past through the eyes of the youngest generation, starting with a classic tale of European emigration in search of the American dream. It is followed by the moving story of a Czech family

A Stitch in Time: Part 1 – The Thing about Roots

Nov 11th, 2022 28m 56s

We recently invited children and teenagers from across the Czech Republic to write a story about a member of their own family who had become an influence or inspiration to them. Many of the stories were beautifully and sensitively written, dra

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