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
Rain Stops Play
1978 was the awards season for the film Julia, directed by Fred Zinneman and staring Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Fonda and Jason Robards. Julia was up for eight nominations including for best editor and s…
00:07:44 |
Fri 21 May 2021
Colours of Conscience
The countryside is one thing but the country is another. On Thursday, looking for renewal or some new life to emerge, the United Kingdom went to the polls for a by-election.
00:07:28 |
Thu 13 May 2021
May Day
Though the love affair endures, the spring-time weather has spun out of control and this May Day weekend the wind whipped cherry blossoms off the trees with a cruel beating. It is difficult to see ho…
00:07:11 |
Thu 06 May 2021
Fires that Smolder and Burn
As India burns its dead, our Prime Minister is refurbishing the flat above number 11 Downing Street with new wall paper, while he is seen out feeding lambs in the Yorkshire Dales or playing ping-pong…
00:07:05 |
Thu 29 Apr 2021
Sunshine Weekend
During a weekend of national mourning some politicians hoped to be able to slip under the radar of national scrutiny but not all were lucky. The headline of the weekend edition of the Financial Times…
00:07:20 |
Thu 22 Apr 2021
Fair Winds and Following Seas
On Friday Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh aged 99, quietly slipped away from his berth on this Earth leaving Her Majesty our Queen alone after 73 years of marriage.
00:07:09 |
Thu 15 Apr 2021
Kill the Bill
Trust in the police force has eroded steadily and visibly since the trials of The Guildford Four in 1974, building to a concentrated core over Steven Lawrence’s murder in 1993. Today when people marc…
00:07:29 |
Thu 08 Apr 2021
Stuck
This week, watching the big ship Ever Given lurch and ram sideways into the walls of the Suez canal we can see a little bit of Pooh in all of us. Shipping company cargo ships are like Rabbit’s pots, …
00:07:09 |
Fri 02 Apr 2021
Coming Home to Roost
In the redacted report James Hamilton, the independent legal advisor exposed a clear situation when the law gets in the way of the truth.
00:07:00 |
Wed 24 Mar 2021
1 Percent
Many years ago, when Pope Francis was still the archbishop of Buenos Aires, California’s Bishop Bill Swing, was visiting that city. They talked of Bishop Swing’s dream of a United Religions Initiati…
00:08:15 |
Thu 11 Mar 2021
20,000,000 and counting
But like many others I return to poetry and found renewal with a program from the Wigmore-at-home series. I settled in to listen and watch a performance by Alice Coote, Christian Blackshaw and Ralph …
00:07:04 |
Sat 06 Mar 2021
Unlocking the Door
Howard, long retired as a tennis coach in Regent’s Park, totters through, making his way to the new Morrison’s supermarket. I like to believe that as he sits at his kitchen table, a mug of tea and th…
00:07:11 |
Thu 25 Feb 2021
St. Valentine’s Weekend.
Inspired by the ‘chain of Solidarity’ in neighboring Belarus the Russian women found their way around the restrictions of mass protests this weekend. They gathered in home gardens lighting candles, p…
00:06:59 |
Thu 18 Feb 2021
Winter Storms Keep Brewing
Meanwhile throughout England the snow keeps falling, though in London it is unsure how to land – as snow flakes or rain drops. The wind chill is keeping the temperatures low, the snow in flurries and…
00:07:16 |
Thu 11 Feb 2021
Covid, Coup Coo ee
Today I am thinking about an anesthesiologist’s story of his first two intubations, back to back, on young women bedded in the same unit, both mothers with young families to care for. He writes of th…
00:08:01 |
Thu 04 Feb 2021
Sunday Snow
But today as the UK death toll from Corona virus tops 100,000, there leaks news of petty behavior from Boris Johnson to João Vale de Almeida the ambassador sent to represent the European Union in Eng…
00:07:06 |
Thu 28 Jan 2021
Mother Russia amidst Covid19
On Wednesday, as this program airs on WWMR.org the United States is inaugurating Joe Biden as their 46th president and with that act completed the United States and the world stage will change and a…
00:06:55 |
Fri 22 Jan 2021
January is Gathering Speed
The small hamlets and villages that surrounded my childhood are dotted with Covid virus cases and death. Old names – Ash Vale, Frimley, Bagshot, Camberley, Farnham, Elstead, Tongham, and Guildford, a…
00:07:34 |
Thu 14 Jan 2021
Classroom Chaos to Lockdown
This was aired on KWMR.org Wednesday morning Pacific time. And then there was Wednesday Morning East Coast time – and you know the rest. With Love from London.
00:07:09 |
Thu 07 Jan 2021
A Bumpy Road Ahead
And the fishermen and women? Ah well, they have been pushed down river, and out with the tide, a knotty problem to be revisited in 5 more years. The draft agreement stating that: “Sovereign rights be…
00:07:05 |
Thu 31 Dec 2020
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