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
Dear oh Dear
"Dear, oh dear" muttered the new King, Charles 111, as he greeted Liz Truss at Buckingham Palace only two weeks ago. The double doors were swung open by a liveried equerry announcing "Prime Minister …
00:07:24 |
Thu 27 Oct 2022
The Queen
It has barely been three weeks since September 6th, when a rumpled Prime Minister Johnson arrived at the Balmoral Castle gates to hand in his card at 11 a.m. In quick succession he was followed by th…
00:06:55 |
Wed 28 Sep 2022
Tripping About the Countryside
The sky is cloudy and dull, pouting at being left behind in grey England while these two politicians vie for the Conservative leadership. The chambers of the House of Commons sit empty as ministers f…
00:09:34 |
Thu 01 Sep 2022
It’s Here Now
It was here, the heat wave, the amber warning turning to red and the temperatures rose to over 101º. Downstairs in our little cottage the bedroom, study and bathrooms are cool - and we are grateful. …
00:09:41 |
Wed 27 Jul 2022
Fasten your seatbelts please
Boris and his other buds are changing their minds at least every week as to what Covid restrictions will stay in place – not too many – if he can help it – as the country relies more heavily on vacci…
00:06:00 |
Fri 17 Sep 2021
Female Complaints
The Taliban say that women and girls will have full rights ‘under Islamic law’ but Islamic law, like any other law, is subject to interpretation and already new rules about dress and education leave …
00:07:15 |
Thu 09 Sep 2021
Caesar Augustus’ August
And here, now, in England, the stone sits so solidly at the bottom of the hill. There is no Atlas among our politicians to roll the stone of the world’s troubles back up to a more compassionate civil…
00:07:03 |
Thu 02 Sep 2021
The Mound
Tony Blair wearing the wise elder-statesman look with slightly too-long silver hair as he shakes his head smiling ruefully, ‘Why can’t you pull yourselves out of the hole I dug for you?’
00:07:07 |
Fri 27 Aug 2021
A Dereliction of Duty
A Dereliction of Duty “On an extraordinary scale”, said Major Gen Charlie Herbert, who served three tours in Afghanistan between 2007-2018. “It is almost impossible to believe that the Prime Minister…
00:07:11 |
Thu 19 Aug 2021
Rebooked for Tomorrow
Tonight, as the church bells signal the end of evensong we will go to sleep for one more night in this little cottage.
00:06:45 |
Thu 12 Aug 2021
Radio Guys and Gals
Radio men and women artists shine a singular light. Reaching only our auditory perception, they bring story, drama, music and memory along with companionship to their audience in the fullest of our i…
00:07:23 |
Wed 04 Aug 2021
+3 = -7
The government is to give National Health medical staff a 3% pay rise. The question remains are the nurses too worn out to consider a some kind of action?
00:07:35 |
Thu 29 Jul 2021
Do as I say – not
My Mother had a saying when I was a teenager. “It’s not do as I do it is do as I say,” teaching me that not all adults were to be trusted. It was a common enough phrase for those times.
00:07:24 |
Thu 22 Jul 2021
Over to you then…
The onus of responsibility is now ‘over to you,’ that is us. But as we have sadly seen demonstrated this weekend, the onus of responsibility for self and community care is a mantle tossed aside by ma…
00:07:16 |
Thu 15 Jul 2021
Poor Man
“I’ve been speaking with your Health Secretary. He says things are getting better. Poor man.” So said the Queen, dressed demurely in a mauve frock, when, last Tuesday, after fifteen months, she met i…
00:07:09 |
Thu 01 Jul 2021
Summer, it’s my favorite day of the year.
Memories and myths of Thomas Becket and his King Henry II reemerged in the reign of Henry VIII with his Thomases, More and Cromwell. The story is echoed today with Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings.…
00:07:32 |
Wed 23 Jun 2021
A Right Royal Weekend
The G-7 Summit’s opening reception held a full house swinging into Cornwall. Hand-bagged and rose buttonholed, three generations of Windsor rose to the occasion as a complete hand.
00:07:16 |
Sat 19 Jun 2021
The G-7 Summit comes to Cornwall
England is humming with its own agenda. This week, leaders from the G-7 summit nations fly into England for their few days by the seaside.
00:07:06 |
Fri 11 Jun 2021
Spring Break
“The government is run by fools and I had no business being there.” he concluded. Dominic Cummings lays the blame for thousands of unnecessary UK deaths on the sagging shoulders of the Prime Minister…
00:07:43 |
Thu 03 Jun 2021
Step Right This Way
We walked past the London Eye, looking so huge from the ground, and then under the Westminster Bridge through to the “Wall of Hearts.’ Painted on the wall that surrounds St. Thomas’s Hospital it face…
00:07:25 |
Thu 27 May 2021
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