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
A Week Ago
While politics plays out on the world stage England continues to play out a mix of lorry-like thievery and home-grown purity. The world famous cheese market of Neal’s Yard Dairy was cleanly relieved …
00:09:47 |
Sat 16 Nov 2024
I ain’t’ done nothink
But suddenly there are quick soft running footsteps, and a child’s voice shouting “I ain't’ done nothink.” More running footsteps, a longer stride and a uniformed youth catches up with the child, who…
00:09:15 |
Sat 12 Oct 2024
One Memory Leads to Another
But the Green Memorial Hospital is in the Northern province of Jaffna, a strong Tamil district and during out time the war was still active..... Everyone was very polite but clear, explaining as gent…
00:09:56 |
Sat 28 Sep 2024
Green is for Grenfell
The daily Parliamentary schedule allows that after the morning’s Prime Minister’s questions there is a pause for those who have meetings to attend - to leave. On the morning when the report was to be…
00:09:17 |
Sun 15 Sep 2024
August Bank Holiday W/E
St. Thomas’s Hospital was first dedicated to serving the poor, the destitute and homeless and though it has become a world renowned teaching hospital it has remained open ever since. It is seeming an…
00:06:57 |
Mon 02 Sep 2024
Remembering the First Time
Edna arrived at the radio station in a fuss. Her plane has been delayed and her luggage was lost. She was as tiny and Irish as I was tall and English but quickly I saw that we were both nervous. Edna…
00:09:24 |
Sat 10 Aug 2024
The Waiting is Over
But how will it play out in greater America? Is America really ready to put all of its prejudices aside? Kamala Harris is: a woman, a caramel-colored woman of mixed race with a Jewish husband, a lawy…
00:09:32 |
Sun 28 Jul 2024
Behind Closed Doors
A small grilled window sits facing the square where - at night time - a mother could - between 1660 and 1875 - raise the grill and lay her new-born babe on the rota where friars, on their night-time …
00:11:00 |
Mon 15 Jul 2024
Monday Nights at the Movies with Mark
Mark is deft in drawing out the information he wants from his guests and dropping in, like sweet strawberries, clips from the films they are talking about, for after all it is film that Mark and his …
00:08:59 |
Sun 30 Jun 2024
Somber June
The grey sky is pouting - there is no sun - just a half-hearted threat of rain. The London season is muted; the Chelsea Flower Show and Royal Ascot Race week do not shine as brightly in splashing col…
00:08:06 |
Tue 18 Jun 2024
Seeing Red
Finally, after Teresa May 2018 appointment of Brian Langstaff his report has landed in Parliament and is damming. Langstaff was not the protecting Safe Pair of Hands that May’s government had hoped. …
00:09:44 |
Mon 27 May 2024
Eleanor Coppola
In 2008 Eleanor Coppola published her book ‘Notes on a Life’. It did well, though was received with mixed reviews; some people were curious about the life of a Coppola, others about art and relations…
00:42:00 |
Sun 19 May 2024
The Sky is Crying
The student protests with Pro-Palestinian sympathies about the bombing of Gaza are growing around the world, each country’s universities going about their demonstrations in their own cultural way. On…
00:09:20 |
Sun 12 May 2024
Fading Flags
The weariness that is shown by the torn Ukrainian flags is but a reflection of the faces of both the Ukrainian and Russian soldiers. Satellite pictures of Russian graveyards show their expansion and …
00:09:03 |
Sat 27 Apr 2024
Serving Safety
Andrés’s stride across the world stage is large like the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is also untrained in the school of politics. Andrés schooling in the kitchen as Zelenskyy’s on th…
00:09:16 |
Sat 13 Apr 2024
March Winds
The farm calls for focus and sends the world of wars further into the outskirts of my mind. Though the horrors that are occurring all the time - everywhere - still return to my consciousness when I t…
00:06:01 |
Sat 30 Mar 2024
The Guilds
But this last weekend I had to mange it - Hollywood - because it is ‘that time of year again’. Oscar was coming. But there is foreplay in the form of the British BAFTA awards appearing in London a mo…
00:10:12 |
Sat 16 Mar 2024
Navalny
This single death takes over my consciousness as I think I can imagine it - while the multiple slaughters are that are occurring in Gaza and on the West Bank leaves me sifting through pictures of rub…
00:08:36 |
Thu 07 Mar 2024
Remembering Oscar
Looking back on that year, and the politics that were uppermost in so many minds, it is hard to accept where we are now. Everything seems more - nothing seems less - and it is frighting for all of th…
00:08:14 |
Sun 28 Jan 2024
January – The New Year
- but it is with the stories that hold the slimmest degrees of separation that I carry. We have friends who are housing Israeli refugees in Paris; another young woman who fled Russia now lives with h…
00:07:40 |
Sun 14 Jan 2024
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