Bad Blood - 2. You Will Not Replace Us
"You will not replace us" was the battle cry of white supremacists at a rally in Charlottesville in 2017. They were expressing an old fear - the idea that immigrants and people of colour will out-bree...
23 Joulu 202229min
Bad Blood - 1. You’ve Got Good Genes
In this 6-part series, we follow the story of eugenics from its origins in the middle-class salons of Victorian Britain, through the Fitter Family competitions and sterilisation laws of Gilded Age USA...
23 Joulu 202229min
The Susurrations of the Sea
The Susurrations of the Sea is a collaboration between the poet Katrina Porteous, who lives right next to the North Sea in Beadnell, Northumberland; radio producer Julian May, who grew up close to the...
20 Joulu 202228min
A Bad Guy with a Gun
A bad guy with a gun.At 09:30am on the 14th December 2012, the staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School locked the school's doors, a security precaution they took every day. At 09:35 a gunman shot his wa...
16 Joulu 202228min
Falling Stars
In the history of science, many individuals are honoured by having technical terms named after them. To modern sensibilities, this is sometimes regrettable. Poet Dr Sam Illingworth looks at the challe...
9 Joulu 202229min
When Reality Breaks: Demystifying Paranoid Schizophrenia
Growing up in Canada, her father's delusions and paranoia gave Julia Shaw a front-row seat into an alternate reality Believing "they” were out to get him – including everyone from aliens to the Bin La...
29 Marras 202229min
The Name Is DeSantis
You may not know who he is - but you should. Under Donald Trump Ron DeSantis rode the MAGA wave to to the governor job in Florida. For some, he's a "smart Trump". For others, a "troll" who, with a ser...
8 Marras 202229min
Music to Scream to - The Hammer Horror Soundtracks
Curse of the Werewolf, The Brides of Dracula, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell – films from the height of Hammer Films’ prolific output in the late 1950s and 1960s. Many of the horrific music so...
28 Loka 202229min
