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 Dog’s Dinner
It is the first time we have seen such an acknowledgment from a festival and it seems fitting that it should occur here where the emphasis has always been on the heavy lifting that it takes to be a c…
00:10:25 |
Sat 25 Nov 2023
An Inquiry
‘Yes Minister’ first aired on the BBC television in 1980 until it ended in 1988, possibly due to the fact that it was becoming harder to distinguish the comedy series from the nightly news casts that…
00:07:57 |
Sun 12 Nov 2023
The Rain in Spain
While waiting and watching Walter sign a new edition of his old ‘Blink’ book I am gently surrounded by the young people who are there for us. They hover like bees finding a new flower but instead it …
00:08:24 |
Sat 28 Oct 2023
Sunshine and Storms
Coming home from the market, and thinking about what to write for this weekend letter - focusing on the Labour and Conservative Party Conferences that take place in September and October - but while …
00:10:09 |
Thu 19 Oct 2023
Bobbies on the Beat
Chris’s family along with the police are not alone in their mistrust of the government. This next weekend the Conservatives are holding their Annual Party Conference in Manchester. Which is a bit rud…
00:08:16 |
Thu 28 Sep 2023
Summer’s End
There were as many European Union flags and berets in the audience as their were Union Jacks. Members of the Government are asking for another investigation by the BBC but it could be - that just lik…
00:09:22 |
Sun 17 Sep 2023
Poaching in the Park
‘Ello darlin’” He calls to me, having long forgotten my name and it being too old a friendship to ask to be reminded. And we chat, about this, that, the other, and loneliness. A kiss is always welcom…
00:07:53 |
Fri 25 Aug 2023
On the Moor
“It came to me last night, we are bit like ancient oak trees, a bit bent and gnarled, but the inner strength keeps us going. So from one Oak tree to another, take care of your roots and branches but …
00:13:30 |
Fri 11 Aug 2023
Divas and Dingies
Salman Rushdie took a quote from ‘The Book of Laughter and Forgetting’ “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” And this is why there are novels, poems, song…
00:08:02 |
Thu 27 Jul 2023
We Seek him Here … and then There
We seek him here we seek him there and the whereabouts of Yevgeny Prigozhin the Russian General who took a group of mercenary fighters towards Moscow and then back again, is reminiscent of Humpty Dum…
00:07:57 |
Mon 17 Jul 2023
Old Music
The Government party-gate reports are in, and the votes on ‘did Boris Johnson break the rules the government set for us all?’ were cast. 354 ministers said yes, 7 puffed no while a few slippery ones …
00:09:13 |
Fri 30 Jun 2023
Below the Fold
It came on Saturday - effectively immediately - Boris Johnson resigned from his parliamentary seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip - a Greater London constituency inside of the M25 Motorway for those w…
00:09:22 |
Fri 16 Jun 2023
Back to Work
On Monday evening our plane touched down in Athens Airport 59 years after we left - not knowing if we would ever see each other again. The drive to the city dips in and out of old memories. Small tow…
00:08:35 |
Mon 29 May 2023
The King’s Coronation May 6 2023
It was raining - of course it was - with the steadiness that puts up umbrellas and gives rise to the English complexion. It was not cold.
00:12:26 |
Thu 11 May 2023
Truth Bombers
Once again the Government’s knickers are in a twist - and all of a sudden it doesn’t seem so far a stretch between rapping Gary Lineker’s knuckles, clipping Sir David’s prime-time wings, and jailing …
00:08:57 |
Fri 28 Apr 2023
February Cold
Mother is very angry . She has tried to hide it, burping and farting, holding her wind in as best she can until she exploded. Two weeks after this initial emesis she has vomited again. The latest dea…
00:09:43 |
Mon 27 Feb 2023
Storms Here and There
As the flurry of this last scandal broke, a government minister - whose name is not worth looking up - suggested that if anyone feels intimidated by a police officer they should ‘Wave down a bus’. It…
00:07:22 |
Sat 28 Jan 2023
Year’s End
November rolled like storm-tossed tumbleweed into December and the nights slid earlier into darkness each evening. Now December is ending and even through the storms covering America the light is beg…
00:07:40 |
Fri 30 Dec 2022
November Light
November has closed in and daylight already slips away before tea-time leading into the long evenings. For amusement we watched our new prime and cabinet ministers dance a Scottish highland eight-som…
00:08:25 |
Sat 03 Dec 2022
The Marmalade Diaries The True Story of an Odd Couple by Ben Aitken
Later in the summer, the community (there is that word again) library hosts a barbeque party for the volunteers. A little wine is drunk, some sausage rolls and sweets are eaten and I ask Ben if he wo…
00:54:45 |
Fri 28 Oct 2022
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