Les Back meets with Dr Susan Batchelor, Dr Caitlin Gormley and Jim Thomson to learn more about a new piece of research exploring repeat violence in Scotland. To be homeless is more than not having a roof over your head. It is also about a deni

The Museum of Discomfort: How Glasgow’s Hunterian is Decolonising through its Collection

19 days ago 33m 11s

Les Back visits the Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow to talk about history, and how it impacts our lives and relationships in the 21st century. He meets with Hunterian Curator of Discomfort Zandra Yeaman and Dr Jay Sarkar to learn

The Soup'erheroes: Fostering Food Solidarity in Castlemilk

19 days ago 32m 9s

Les Back swaps his desk for the kitchen table as he travels to Castlemilk in the south of Glasgow to meet a group of remarkable women working together to feed their community. Is there a more powerful symbol of community than the soup pot? It

Is Wasteland Ever Wasted? Looking beyond the developer’s view; how brownfield sites add value to the cityscape

19 days ago 28m 56s

In this episode of Recovering Community, Les Back climbs through a hole in a fence to get right to the foundations of urban life. He meets with Dr Ross Beveridge, and artists Mary Redmond and Jim Colquhoun to talk about the landscape of the cit

The Wellbeing Economy: rethinking traditional economic structures to benefit people and planet

Jun 10th, 2022 26m 55s

What does it take to reconfigure our traditional capitalist economic structures so that people, communities and the environment come before profit? That’s the question at the heart of the wellbeing economy movement and the subject of today’s ep

Coming Back: How Vox Liminis uses creative responses to the criminal justice system to build community

Feb 3rd, 2022 30m 56s

How do you build community after the criminal justice system has removed you from society to serve a prison sentence? Today’s episode of Recovering Community explores the work of Vox Liminis, a unique organisation, set up to find creative ans

Colombia River Stories: The symbiotic relationship between the Río Atrato and the community who call it home

Nov 5th, 2021 30m 19s

The 400 mile long Río Atrato is in the Chocó department of northwest Colombia. Chocó is one of the most ethnically diverse regions in the country. It’s also one of the poorest, and the river provides essential transport and economic opportuniti

Communities, Identity and Borders: What does the Kenmure Street Protest tell us about belonging to Glasgow?

Oct 8th, 2021 34m 48s

The way we control our borders and treat those who want or need to cross them says so much about our national identity. And for the last 25 years, the U.K. Government has - with significant public support - moved to make immigration as difficul

After Auchengeich: Resilience in a Mining Community

Sep 14th, 2021 33m 37s

For this first episode of Recovering Community, we’re focusing on Moodiesburn, a former mining town about eight miles north of Glasgow. Moodiesburn was home to the Auchengeich colliery. The danger of mining left its mark on the area. 6 men died

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