Hearing Aids
Like so many people at a similar time of life, the poet Paul Farley is facing up to the fact that he might need hearing aids. His wife has been asking him to turn down the volume on the telly for year...
23 Nov 202528min
Lost In Lullabies
From Rock-a-bye Baby to Brahms to AI…Has the lullaby become a lost art?Matt Edmonds is trying to sing his child to sleep. It’s not working. As his baritone produces My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean for t...
10 Nov 202528min
The Little Box Which Contains the World
Emily Berry leads us on an exploration of agoraphobia: a poetic journey through the lives of people who don't like going on journeys.Agoraphobia is elusive and elastic – and it's very probably not wha...
9 Nov 202528min
The Piano Boat
The Piano Boat, the floating concert hall where world-renowned concert pianist Masayuki Tayama played, sits empty. His wife, Rhiana, is left with a boat with no captain and a Steinway she was never al...
2 Nov 202528min
Problems with Julia Masli
There are so many problems in the world. For the past three years, Estonian clown Julia Masli - armed with a microphone taped to a mannequin leg - has been trying to solve them.So far, during the perf...
26 Okt 202528min
The Findhorn Garden
This is a story about a community on the north east coast of Scotland that talked to plants with miraculous results.Established in 1962, the Findhorn community gained international recognition for 40l...
19 Okt 202529min
Returned to Sender
Clint Buffington spends his time where land meets sea, searching for a very specific treasure - messages in bottles that have drifted across oceans. Over the past 20 years he has recovered more than 1...
12 Okt 202528min
Peanuts at 75
On the 75th anniversary of the iconic comic strip Peanuts, psychoanalyst and author Josh Cohen shares how Charlie Brown and the Snoopy gang have become his constant companions—and how they can help us...
5 Okt 202529min
