Heartlands
Heartlands takes listeners on a journey through Britain painting a picture of what work - in the shadow of heavy industry - looks like in 2022.
From the burgeoning film and TV industry in Glasgow, freeport workers in Tilbury and Amazon associates in Durham, we uncover which new industries are thriving and how working culture is evolving.
Told through the lens of 5 young presenters: Sophie, Hugh, Macy, Charley and Ché, this series explores youth employment and takes an unbiased snapshot of our post-industrial heartlands now.
Producers: Hunter Charlton & Ben Tulloh
Production Assistance: Anna Budd, Guy Gardener and Tess Davidson
Exec Producer: Arlie Adlington
Artwork: Edd Wellesley-Davies
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 6
- Years Active
- 2022
Belfast: Mental Health and ‘The Lost Generation’
Belfast was once the linen capital of the world and one of the most productive shipyards in the world, Harland & Wolff. A lot changed in recent decades though. Today, Belfast's economy is made up of …
Govan: Gentrification or Regeneration?
Govan was once the home of Glasgow's shipbuilding industry but with the loss of the shipyard Govan faces an uncertain future. Does the burgeoning film and television industry in Glasgow a solution to…
Durham: Coal Faces and Pack Stations
County Durham was once synonymous with the production of coal. In the nineteenth century, mining transformed the landscape and the population of Durham. Colliery villages sprang up everywhere and mig…
Swansea: Lost Industry, broken Communites and the Rise of Trade Unions.
Swansea was once one of the cradles of the Industrial Revolution. During the nineteenth-century, it was a world centre for tinplate production, it smelted 90% of the world's copper, and the town witn…
Tilbury: Hope, Poverty and the Freeport
With £6 billion pounds of private investment flooding into the Thames estuary since 2017, life and the world of work are changing rapidly in the small town of Tilbury in Essex.
In episode 1 of Heartl…
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Heartlands takes listeners on a journey through Britain painting a picture of what work - in the shadow of heavy industry - looks like in 2022.
From the burgeoning film and TV industry in Glasgow, fre…