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
Mutant in Tier Four
Between Brexit and the new mutant strain of COVID-19, the rest of Europe is firmly closing its doors on trade and travel with England. Albeit ‘closing the barn door after the horse has bolted’.
00:07:28 |
Thu 24 Dec 2020
Losing
“Russia. I am from Russia, then I spend several years in Switzerland but they let me come back here and I am (she repeats) so grateful.” She is smiling all the time, and rocking from side to side and…
00:06:46 |
Thu 17 Dec 2020
Arrival
The vaccines were made by the husband and wife team of Professor Sahin and Özlem Türeci at their German firm BioNTech. Professor Türeci’s father had come to Germany as a refugee from Turkey and found…
00:07:00 |
Sat 12 Dec 2020
Striker
It was with grim pressed lips that the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, reportedly by an Israeli ambush team, was broken last week. Countries watched and remained silent – for the most part – for…
00:07:20 |
Thu 03 Dec 2020
An Intersting weekend
Seeing all this harsh political power-playing behavior, being isolated in COVID quarantine, and feeling powerless has been countered by the human kindness we met this week.
00:07:18 |
Fri 27 Nov 2020
Flotsam and Jetsam
It has been many years since we heard the weekly cry of a man pushing his barrow while ringing his bell and calling out, “Any old Iron, Any old Iron.’ Now for those who do not make it to the recyclin…
00:07:14 |
Thu 19 Nov 2020
Old Memories and New Beginnings
The days and dates you remember come from childhood, and the important moments in our personal lives and country’s wellbeing.
00:07:22 |
Thu 12 Nov 2020
Shutting up Shop
Ralph strides onto the stage and loudly places his props on the table, claiming the table and the props as a supporting cast. He is the magician who will hold us in David Hare’s mind with his fears o…
00:07:10 |
Thu 05 Nov 2020
A Few Good Men
Politeness, calmness in the face of such needless suffering and death and a gentleman holding his own. Tears come to my eyes at the sight and sound of him.
00:07:22 |
Thu 29 Oct 2020
Still Watching
“If carefully negotiated terms are not honoured and laws can be ‘legally’ broken, on what foundations does our democracy stand?” The Internal Market Bill would ride roughshod over the Withdrawal Agre…
00:07:47 |
Fri 23 Oct 2020
Better to Give
In this time of Covid restrictions people remain wary of indoor galleries and museums. Every year I find one piece that speaks to me. This year it is Kalliopi Lemos’s ‘The Plait’ A very tall braid o…
00:07:17 |
Fri 16 Oct 2020
It’s Raining Again
At first it seemed there was a restraint on Marr with his questions about the misplaced 16,000 cases, and then, as sometimes happens, the Scot in him rose to the fore. It takes a half squint of my ey…
00:06:52 |
Thu 08 Oct 2020
Week Seven in Belarus
One of the privileges of reaching a certain age is the grounding of your collective wisdom and the ability to commit to what you know is right.
00:07:25 |
Thu 01 Oct 2020
Second Wave
In trying to be stern, he repeated again and again “We must obey the rules”. But the rules keep changing and Hancock was ill equipped, and nervous. Monday morning we found out why.
00:07:07 |
Thu 24 Sep 2020
Rule of Six
The natural world is in deep fury and sorrow and has serious indigestion from humanity’s greedy excesses. For support or solace some people return to their religions, some look to science, hardly any…
00:07:17 |
Sat 19 Sep 2020
Murder is a Messy Thing
Countries, cultures and times evolve and often a culture is the defining influence as to how political problems disappear.
00:06:59 |
Thu 10 Sep 2020
Mad with Grief
I could not help but reach out and touch his arm though we immediately knew that was forbidden and I withdrew my hand. But in his eyes I read despair and realized he was probably at this moment in ti…
00:06:59 |
Wed 02 Sep 2020
Testing Times
Will it end like Czechoslovakia? Scenes from ‘The Unbearable Lightless of Being’, play though my mind along with the film’s haunting music. Thinking of the end scenes of ‘Unbearable’ that were shot i…
00:07:09 |
Thu 27 Aug 2020
An Eton Mess
Everyone involved in the making of Coup 53 at times wondered what rabbit-hole we were falling into as these historic events from 67 years ago played out in more than unusual footage and film. The Pre…
00:07:17 |
Wed 19 Aug 2020
Heatwave in August
Somehow the tent fell from the back of the bike and he didn’t notice until we were long gone to the next stop. But it it had served a purpose, to show a girl about the Scott in Scott Murch and to sho…
00:06:52 |
Thu 13 Aug 2020
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