In this strange time of virus-induced isolation, home has become our world. What does that world mean? What does home mean, in a time when so many of us are benignly incarcerated there by circumstances that even in our enforced solitude bring us together in solidarity. At Hiraeth we are always asking the question, what is home? And now it has taken on new shades of meaning. What is home in the time of corona?

In this new season of the Hiraeth podast, that is the question we will be asking. Lockdown. Curfew. Shelter in Place. I’ll talk to people around the world, from here in Amsterdam to Sweden to Egypt to the United States about how that injunction to stay at home plays out in their countries, and what their daily lives look like in this era of social distancing. We’ll discuss homeschooling, deciding whether or not to evacuate, working in public health, being medically fragile, the poetry that’s getting us through, what’s going on with this resurgence of interest in baking, sewing, and other homemaking arts, and much, much more. What are we making of this time at home? Join us for a new season of the Hiraeth podcast: ‘Home in the time of Corona’.

This episode features music by Meydän under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

Podcast produced by Sarah Bringhurst Familia on the canals of Amsterdam.