Are You Ready? – BBC Radio 4 (07.12.2025)
An audio documentary about the state of emergency preparedness in the UK. Presented by Lucy Easthope.
A Span of Autonomy – Resonance FM (14.08.2025)
An audio documentary about the British anarchist Colin Ward which tells the story of anarchy in the UK through his life and work, and an alternative history of the 20th century seen from an anarchist perspective.
Show Me the Bodies – Resonance FM (06.03.2025)
Interview between Lucy Easthope and the journalist Peter Apps – author of the Orwell Prize-winning book Show Me the Bodies – about Grenfell Tower.
At Your Own Peril – BBC Radio 4 (03.02.2025)
A five-part series about the history of risk, from the origin of probability to the existential threat of nuclear war, artificial intelligence and climate change. Presented by Lucy Easthope.
The Invention of Liberty; or Just Noise – Resonance Extra (16.08.2023)
An audio essay and documentary made in response to ‘Radical Translations’ , an interdisciplinary project which explores the role of translation in the spread of radical, democratic ideas during and after the French Revolution.
Learning from the Great Tide – BBC Radio 4 (30.01.2023)
An audio documentary about the North Sea Flood of 1953 to commemorate its 70th anniversary. Presented by Justin Rowlatt.
The Poet of Whitechapel – Resonance FM (19.09.2022)
A documentary about the extraordinary life and work of the Yiddish poet Avram Nachum Stencl, who went from an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community in southern Poland to the bohemian cafés of pre-war Berlin before finally escaping Nazi Germany to arrive in Whitechapel, the heart of the Jewish East End. Presented by Rachel Lichtenstein.
An Epoch of Rest – Resonance FM (22.04.2021)
An audio essay about the Hogsmill River, a chalk stream and tributary of the Thames, which uses fin de siècle art and science fiction to explore our changing relationship to space and the transformation of everyday life.
A Man of Letters – Resonance FM (06.04.2021)
A programme about the German designer and typographer Berthold Wolpe, who worked at Faber & Faber for over three decades, where he is estimated to have designed over 1,500 book covers and defined the style of the Faber book jacket, including the use of his famous ‘Albertus’ typeface.
A List of Things That Quicken the Heart – Resonance FM (08.12.2020)
An audio essay about Sei Shōnagon, a lady-in-waiting during the Heian period at the turn of the 11th century in Japan, and the influence of ‘The Pillow Book’ on a generation of 20th-century French writers and filmmakers including Chris Marker, Georges Perec and Roland Barthes.
The Great Tide: Flooding, Landscape and Memory – Resonance FM (27.11.2020)
A programme about the North Sea Flood of 1953, the worst natural disaster in Britain of the 20th century, in which 307 people lost their lives in England and over 1,800 people in the Netherlands, but which also produced one of the great works of English social history, ‘The Great Tide’ by Hilda Grieve, which tells the story of the flood disaster in Essex.
Walking with Sebald: Austerlitz and the East End – Resonance FM (25.02.2020)
A two-part programme in which we follow in the footsteps of the German writer W. G. Sebald and his eponymous character Austerlitz as we explore the East End of London with the poet Stephen Watts (a friend of ‘Max’ Sebald who accompanied him on many of his walks) who is joined by Nadia Valman and David Anderson from Queen Mary University of London.
Voice of the Eagle: The Enigma of Robbie Basho – Resonance FM (13.12.2019)
An interview with the director Liam Barker about the extraordinary life and visionary music of the American guitarist, singer and mystic Robbie Basho.
A podcast about sexual health, wellbeing and pleasure, with presenter Esther and sexual health doctors Franki and Jajja.
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