#12: On Island Tides: A journey through the music of Blanco White
In this episode we meet the voice and the inspiration behind Blanco White, the stage name of Josh Edwards, a guitarist and singer-songwriter from Lon...
Standing Places
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"So where's home then?" It's a question that so many of us struggle to answer. Home is also something we're talking about more and more. Standing Places is a digital campfire for sharing stories about identity, belonging and the tricky question of home. Hosted by traveller, writer and permanently confused hybrid, Ivor Wells.
#11: The Cult of the Shining City
What is happening to the soul of America? It’s a question the whole world is asking as Americans start voting in the most bizarre general election in ...
#10: Poetry to journey by
So we’re all grounded for the foreseeable future. None of us will be travelling the way we used to any time soon. And so we wait, and remember, and im...
#9: Politics of a Pandemic: A conversation with Dr. Paul G. Buchanan
Most of the world is now in some form of pandemic lockdown, and everything around us is changing – politics, economics, international relations. How d...
#8: Coronavirus: Time will come good
As the coronavirus lockdown is further extended here in the UK, it’s hard to know when or indeed how our lives will return to any sense of normality. ...
#7: Coronavirus: Fighting 'The Rona'
Since recording my last episode it seems that I contracted the coronavirus. So here are some reflections on fighting ‘The Rona’, the silence of London...
#6: Coronavirus: We're all in this together
We're only just starting to accept the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic here in the UK. We've never lived through anything like this in our lif...
#5: Amy & Monica
What does it mean to be a global citizen when walls and borders are back in vogue? How do you create a permanent home that’s a sanctuary? And what doe...
#4: Caroline
How do you find home again when you’ve lost the person who was your home? And what does the idea of home even mean in the aftermath of grief? Home is ...
#3: Piali
What does home mean when you've always had a complicated relationship with the country you were born in? Piali DasGupta's personal story stretches fro...