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Green Originals
Episode Thirteen - Joni Mitchell
- Broadcast
- 2020 (13 mins)
Folk Singer Sam Lee takes a look at the legacy of Joni Mitchell’s environmental anthem Big Yellow Taxi.
Our Dementia Choir
Episode 1
- Broadcast
- 2019 (58 mins)
In episode one, Vicky starts the search for choir members, meeting people with different types of dementia and at different stages. One of the first to join is former woodwork teacher Chris whose...
Our Dementia Choir
Episode 2
- Broadcast
- 2019 (58 mins)
In the second episode, Vicky sets out to see the impact of music on people in the later stages of dementia when she visits a care home offering exemplary music therapy and sees how their unique approach is...
Sound Waves: The Symphony of Physics
Episode 1 - Making Sound
- Broadcast
- 2017 (59 mins)
In this programme, Dr Helen Czerski investigates the extraordinary science behind the sounds we’re familiar with and the sounds that we normally can’t hear. She begins by exploring the simplest of ideas:...
Prejudice & Pride: The People’s History of LGBTQ Britain
Episode One
- Broadcast
- 2017 (59 mins)
Every so often the world changes beyond your wildest dreams. In 1967 the Sexual Offences Act partially decriminalised homosexuality, offering lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people the...
Prejudice & Pride: The People’s History of LGBTQ Britain
Episode Two
- Broadcast
- 2017 (59 mins)
The landmark 1967 Sexual Offences Act partially decriminalised homosexuality offering lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people the opportunity to start living openly for the first time. Presented...
The Music Of Time
Cuba
- Broadcast
- 2017 (49 mins)
Why Cubans love their famous and irresistible music called ‘son’, and consider it a part of their identity and ‘the DNA of Cuban culture. This style of music, which spawned the likes of salsa, has been...
The Music Of Time
India
- Broadcast
- 2017 (49 mins)
Jasdeep Singh explores the profound effects of Indian independence and partition in 1947 on music across the north-west of the subcontinent. On the 15 of August 1947 India gained its independence and was...
The Music Of Time
Jamaica
- Broadcast
- 2017 (49 mins)
The Music of Time from Kingston, Jamaica with Dr Carolyn Cooper from the University of West Indies, looks at Jamaican music through the decades. From drumming during slavery, to 1970’s reggae, dancehall...
The Music Of Time
Japan
- Broadcast
- 2017 (49 mins)
As Japan emerged from the Second World War, American occupation forces set out to remake Japanese society in their own image. They decided that popular music would play its part - especially jazz: democratic...