Letter from A. Broad
Letter from A. Broad starts with a picture and a pang of the heart. From there it must beat into life, be penned as a letter and finally produced into a radio broadcast.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 9 minutes
- Episodes
- 204
- Years Active
- 2009 - 2025
It’s Only Going to Get Worse
And so the wars effects spread, across continents, each one oozing out to the other, Europe, The Middle East, and beyond. When the American President isn’t pouting that he has not been invited to Ch…
00:09:39 |
Tue 09 Sep 2025
August in LA
We connect with the friends that we can. There are friends too sick to visit, there are friends who have put their homes back together after the Palasades fires, and friends who are only just beginni…
00:09:42 |
Sat 23 Aug 2025
Dining Out
“Can I ask you?” Of course, “We have a two-year old at home and apart from Paddington Bear what else could I bring her?” Ah, now I was on home, Granny ground and launched into the thrills of “Ant and…
00:09:24 |
Sat 26 Jul 2025
Dress to Impress
Some of the doctors followed in this film are still alive and working. Some are not. Almost all have been imprisoned, tortured and lost family members.
00:09:20 |
Sun 13 Jul 2025
Feet in the Fridge
When asked, the honor guards gathers to perform Nightingale Tribute services for nurses. Like in the military, it consists of the Final Call to Duty. The Nightingale Lamp is lit in the nurse's honor …
00:09:07 |
Sun 29 Jun 2025
Old Reads and New Writing
This is a quiet room, saved now for big occasions with family or friends but in this solitary time I take it for my own. The stillness calls me and I welcome it putting my pen to the page bringing im…
00:08:56 |
Sun 15 Jun 2025
All Those Books
Libraries carry the past forward to the present and into the future. The knowledge and truth stored safely from the Library of Alexandria through to the likes of Wikipedia and The Internet Archive, a…
00:09:58 |
Sat 24 May 2025
Half a Life-time Ago
As the lights came up the audience of some film makers, film buffs. and children settling in for the Q and A. A young girl who had participated in the fun children’s hour hosted before the film asked…
00:09:14 |
Sat 10 May 2025
Hove Actually.
But supper has to be quick, we are on location with a gig after all and we walk our way from the restaurant to Horatio's Bar and ‘The Space’ on Brighton Palace Pier. Dusk has arrived and day trippers…
00:10:24 |
Tue 29 Apr 2025
Sibylline Press and some Sibyls
It’s the writers, it’s the publishers, and it’s the bookstore owners that come together to give us the books we read. Over the years publishers and publishing, both in big and small houses, has grown…
00:54:00 |
Sat 26 Apr 2025
It’s the Trees
Even here in this quiet corner of London we feel it, the head-shaking from our neighbors, the decisions not to visit America - the US president is on every newscast in this country and around most of…
00:08:42 |
Mon 14 Apr 2025
Bees are Buzzing
Even in the worst of times, which for so many people in the world this is, the spring sunshine is bringing warmth and a moment of peace within the despair of their lives.
00:04:02 |
Sun 30 Mar 2025
The Limit
The forests and parks are the American Jewels, beloved by peoples of all parties, persuasions, income levels, rural and city dwellers alike. And they - we the people - are coming together, supporting…
00:08:17 |
Tue 18 Mar 2025
Harvesting History
We are older and need to tidy up our lives. We are not cleaning out the cupboards and barn stalls as we should be, instead have been writing of our work, our lives and worlds together and apart. Ther…
00:09:26 |
Sat 01 Mar 2025
Morning Moments
Lady Pechell was older than the young mothers making do with their ration books, trading eggs and butter from small holdings for gin from goodness knows where. On shopping days during the week they c…
00:08:47 |
Sun 09 Feb 2025
Wolf Moon
Then I look particularly at the women who - like our late Queen - know the subtle messages of the clothes they wear and the actions they take. Michelle Obama is absent. Hillary Clinton standing besid…
00:08:33 |
Sun 26 Jan 2025
Mourning and Marmalade
As I make my marmalade, I remember my mother making hers and the rows and rows of jars put away in the larder. I am thinking again of my friends in England. We are older now and knocked about by the …
00:08:38 |
Mon 13 Jan 2025
666 Days and Counting
Our town, Bolinas - there, said it out-loud - has been without its post office for 666 days and counting. And we are counting, and marking it down, writing letters, going to meetings, in public and i…
00:06:44 |
Sat 28 Dec 2024
It’s All Theater
We sit down early watching the theater fill until someone tries to get everyone to their seats as ‘the show is about to start’ but it is tricky when the past Speaker of the House is now busy speaking…
00:09:52 |
Fri 13 Dec 2024
Storm Bert
It was in 1953 that the World Meteorological Organization in the US began giving women’s names to storms and hurricanes. It wasn’t until 1978 that they began to accept that many of the gods of the se…
00:09:00 |
Tue 03 Dec 2024
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