Illuminated Podcast
1) Shifting Soundscapes
âSound is the barometer of the health of the planet.âIt's almost 60 years since 11-year-old Martyn Stewart made his first recording near his house in Birmingham using a reel-to-reel machine borrowed f...Show More
2) The Piano Boat
The Piano Boat, the floating concert hall where world-renowned concert pianist Masayuki Tayama played, sits empty. His wife, Rhiana, is left with a boat with no captain and a Steinway she was never al...Show More
3) Problems with Julia Masli
There are so many problems in the world. For the past three years, Estonian clown Julia Masli - armed with a microphone taped to a mannequin leg - has been trying to solve them.So far, during the perf...Show More
4) The Findhorn Garden
This is a story about a community on the north east coast of Scotland that talked to plants with miraculous results.Established in 1962, the Findhorn community gained international recognition for 40l...Show More
5) Returned to Sender
Clint Buffington spends his time where land meets sea, searching for a very specific treasure - messages in bottles that have drifted across oceans. Over the past 20 years he has recovered more than 1...Show More
6) Peanuts at 75
On the 75th anniversary of the iconic comic strip Peanuts, psychoanalyst and author Josh Cohen shares how Charlie Brown and the Snoopy gang have become his constant companionsâand how they can help us...Show More
7) Driving, Driving, Driving on the Autobahn
Alan Dein takes to the road to explore the social and cultural resonances of Kraftwerkâs Autobahn. The music begins the way journeys begin: with a clunking car door and churning ignition, before rolli...Show More
8) How Trains Shrank Time and Space
200 years ago, the modern railway was born. On 27th September 1825, the first ticketed passenger train, powered by steam travelled on a public line in County Durham. Katrina Porteous, a poet with gene...Show More
9) The Cat Killer Detectives
When decapitated cats start appearing in South London, animal rescue duo Boudicca Rising and Tony Jenkins spring into action. Theyâll do whatever it takes to get to the bottom of this mystery.Itâs 201...Show More
10) The Watch Case
Watchmaker Rebecca Struthers has been invited to come and examine a watch which its owners claim is the world's oldest - but is it?Until now, Rebecca had only heard rumours of this watch - about the r...Show More