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) 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
3) 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
4) 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
5) 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
6) 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
7) 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
8) Into the West
The red-billed chough is the most dashing crow in the world. These rare, flamboyant, scarlet-legged, scarlet-billed denizens of Britainâs Celtic coasts are communal and comic, intelligent and daring. ...Show More
9) A Taste of Home
Care packages are a universal love language and a way for families to stay connected across distances. We unbox four from China, India, Ireland and the Philippines, each filled with the tastes, textur...Show More
10) Don't Lose Your Head!
When the Reverend Andrew Doarks took on the church of St Gregory's in Sudbury three years ago - he received no warning of what he would discover in the vestry.There - behind a perspex screen and a woo...Show More