"I noticed that language seems to fail us. How do you write about the foundations of our existence? That is how mythology enters very naturally into the story, because history is about ideas, religions, empires, wars and culture. Mythology is a

Four Walls

Nov 13th, 2023 28m 25s

Documentary adventures that invite a closer listen.For generations, queer people have moved to London from more conservative parts of the UK, in search of community and to live as their authentic selves. Now, with housing so unstable, queer peo

Crossings

Nov 6th, 2023 28m 34s

Documentary adventures that invite a closer listen.Sahid has spent years on a relentless journey. Crossing international borders, he has confronted the harrowing realities of human trafficking, slavery, and rafting across the Mediterranean Sea.

Threads

Oct 30th, 2023 28m 24s

Documentary adventures that invite a closer listen.Infamous during the Greenham Common protests of the 1980s for the recklessness of her activism and her multiple prison sentences (as heard in Lights Out: Greenham Convictions), Lyn Barlow now l

Lithified

Oct 23rd, 2023 28m 24s

“I was well aware of this synchronicity: that Cornwall was going onto lithium, or what I prefer to call ‘lithifying’, just as I was ‘delithifying’, or coming off it. This wasn’t an accidentally aligned pairing of incidents. I’d planned it that

Dead Ends

Oct 16th, 2023 28m 8s

“Should we delete the sex tape?” Should we get rid of the crime scene photographs? How do I find a true image of my mum amidst the recordings, fragments and images she left behind?"Exploring an archive of home videos, photographs, memories and

Gatekeeper

Jan 9th, 2023 28m 31s

“Somewhere between the narrow entry of Who I am and What I seem to be, lies a vast and nameless place.”In this transmission, Axel Kacoutié discovers a new sense of self in the cosmologies, concepts and realities of queer and indigenous folks. W

County Lines

Jan 3rd, 2023 28m 10s

Four people recount their involvement with “county lines” - gangs that exploit children and vulnerable adults to sell drugs around the UK. Underneath their stories lies a series of unspoken, unanswered questions. Who gets to decide the boundary

The Night Sky

Jan 2nd, 2023 28m 17s

Having devoted decades of their lives to fighting for a better world, three activists in their 70s reflect on keeping going, hope and despair as the year turns - while a retired clergyman and his wife explore what’s drawn them to activism in th

Call Signs

Dec 27th, 2022 28m 38s

A man, a Mouse and a morse key: the story of a radio amateur in Kyiv as the Russian invasion unfolds.When his wife and two children flee Kyiv to escape the war, Volodymyr Gurtovy (call sign US7IGN) stays behind in their apartment with only h

Greenham Convictions

Dec 19th, 2022 28m 44s

It's 40 years this month since 30,000 women 'embraced the base' at RAF Greenham Common, Berkshire in protest at the proposed siting of cruise missiles there. For some of them, the Women's Peace Camp became home and the RAF base the scene of co

Accounts and Accountability

Dec 12th, 2022 29m 3s

Across the course of a single day, a documentary-maker hosts an open-call audition for subjects to star in her next project. Accounts and Accountability offers a dive into the ethics of buying and selling true stories.With music composed by Eli