Generation Z and the Art of Self-Maintenance
Generation Z is self-taught. No-one any older really gets that. The children born around the turn of the millennium came into a digital world and had to find out for themselves how to navigate it. Sur...
4 Okt 201929min
The Ballad of the Fix
The story of Scotland's deadly drug crisis narrated by the voice of the narcotic itself. Scotland has the highest rate of reported drug deaths in the European Union. There has been a rapid rise of che...
27 Sep 201929min
The Sound Odyssey: Loyle Carner in Guyana
Gemma Cairney brings together artists from two different countries to combine their talents to make a new piece of music.In this episode Gemma invites 24-year-old London rapper Loyle Carner to Guyana,...
20 Sep 201928min
Going to the Gay Bar
LGBTQ+ venues are closing across the UK.Research from the UCL Urban Laboratory indicates that, since 2006, the number of venues in London has fallen from 125 to 53 - with some still at risk of closure...
17 Sep 201957min
Art of Now: The World in Their Hands
We hear from one of the world’s last remaining globemakers and reflect on the globe’s cultural and symbolic currency.While Google Earth may give us intricate detail of every inch of land, there’s noth...
6 Sep 201928min
What’s Eating Rotherham
Why do you keep going back to the fridge after dinner? Fruit and vegetables, a balanced diet, low salt, low sugar and moderate exercise seem to be the silver bullets loaded into a revolver that has on...
27 Aug 201928min
The Courage of Ambivalence
In an age of certainty, of assertions without facts, and sometimes assertions with facts, Mark O’Connell makes the case for a different virtue – ambivalence. Six years on from his thought-provoking, w...
23 Aug 201928min
Can Facebook Survive?
David Baker, contributing editor of Wired, explores the challenges Facebook must meet and overcome in order to survive after a disastrous period which has seen the reputation and the business model of...
13 Aug 201937min
