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
World Markets
It was probably in the early 1980’s when my mother first said “Come on Saturday and we can go to the market.” There was now a weekly market set up in the Ghurka Square parking lot of the Fleet town …
00:07:51 |
Thu 06 Aug 2020
Gilbert is Gone
"… Race did not make me Indian. Religion did not make me Indian. But history did. And in the long run, it’s history that counts.” I like to believe that John Lewis would have nodded in agreement as t…
00:07:07 |
Thu 30 Jul 2020
Bubbles
We retreat into the bubbles that we create, and with the summer stretching before us, can be excused for struggling with the scrapping dog-fights of the world’s governments. (Our tiredness being coun…
00:07:14 |
Thu 23 Jul 2020
Zooming Along
They zoom like fishing, dropping a line into the river of our lives, hooking those bites and making connections with long ago colleagues and friends. There are folks in party hats and with balloons, …
00:07:06 |
Thu 16 Jul 2020
The Apple Does Not Fall Far from the Tree
The English attribute the saying to the Germans, the Germans to the Turks, and the Turks to the Russians. The Russians attribute it to themselves.
But in 1585 is a quotation from Megiserus that is st…
00:07:15 |
Wed 08 Jul 2020
Strawberries in June
If I was to have another jab under the jacket of the government I see them in my mind’s eye zooming around their screens in search of the national unlocking with ‘a little bit here and a little bit t…
00:06:44 |
Wed 01 Jul 2020
Hibernation Gin
“Just because they speak the same language, remember, they are still foreigners.” Said my mother in 1964 as I sat on her bed late one evening before leaving for America.
00:07:10 |
Wed 24 Jun 2020
Not Fit for Purpose
Even Oxford University faced its mixed messages of Cecil Rhodes and Nelson Mandela. “We are going to have to work together now you and I” Mandela said to the statue when he set up the Mandela Rhodes …
00:07:02 |
Wed 17 Jun 2020
Respect my Existance or Expect my Resistance
Respect my Existence or Expect my Resistance. From Camden to Idaho
00:06:59 |
Wed 10 Jun 2020
Covid, Cummings and Crying with Clive
Clive Myrie and his team spent a week in the Royal London Hospital of Whitechapel, recording the stories of the hospital’s Covid virus wards.
00:09:18 |
Wed 03 Jun 2020
Sheltering Somewhere
The Plague, smallpox, and the sweating sickness brought in and spread by just one contact, could decimate families, farms and communities.
00:07:05 |
Wed 27 May 2020
Harvesting the Hill
The UK government’s handling of the Corona19 epidemic in England has been a debortle.
00:06:37 |
Wed 20 May 2020
Following Florence
In this new reality, a phrase that crosses my lips at least once a week is “Incandescent with Rage.” Usually by the time I come to write I have calmed down. But the feeling bubbles up and like waves …
00:07:03 |
Wed 13 May 2020
Grateful in Week Seven
Week seven of Shelter in Place or Lockdown in London. Whatever we call it, this means remaining vigilant and at home.
00:06:40 |
Wed 06 May 2020
Boris is Back
The virus, politics, shopping and the park are the sharp points on our compass as we enter week six of lockdown in London.
00:06:17 |
Wed 29 Apr 2020
A Month in Lockdown London
Walking past our local supermarket, the wind added to the chill of watching the long line of one-person one-cart each distanced apart, shuffling along the wall around to the waiting guard at the stor…
00:06:31 |
Wed 22 Apr 2020
Easter Weekend 2020
Easter Weekend in London brings news and time for reflection.
00:06:54 |
Thu 16 Apr 2020
Week Two of UK Lockdown
Letter from A. Broad on the second week of lockdown from coronavirus in London written and read by Muriel Murch.
00:07:19 |
Wed 08 Apr 2020
Week One of London Lockdown
March 29th 2020 (Updated on April 1 2020) — Week One of Lock Down in London A week ago on Friday, when my husband walked into Camden for some printer ink and returned with 5 Kilos of rice, I smiled. …
00:06:02 |
Wed 01 Apr 2020
Wilding: A conversation with Isabella Tree
Ways of Wilding. Sweeping in from the Atlantic Ocean, crossing over England, Wales and into Europe, storm Dennis came on the heels of storm Ciara while storm Ellen is due in this weekend. The TV news…
00:57:39 |
Thu 20 Feb 2020
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