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2. Nandi Jola: Neither Here Nor There
Nandi Jola finds some surprising connections between Africa and Northern Ireland. Read more
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Another Northern Ireland
Nandi Jola finds some surprising connections between Africa and Northern Ireland.
3. Nick Laird: Animal Life
Nick Laird wonders if his children are missing out on the rural upbringing he enjoyed.
4. Darran Anderson: Map Making
Darran Anderson draws an alternative map of Ulster for his young son.
5. Bernie McGill: Our Art
During the Troubles, Bernie McGill was often told to be careful about what she said.
Controversies: American Writing of the 1960s
William Styron
Should a white man write about a black revolutionary?
Amiri Baraka
How poet and playwright Amiri Baraka cancelled himself in a single public appearance.
Norman Mailer
Michael Goldfarb looks at how Norman Mailer's misogyny eventually caught up with him.
Philip Roth
How Philip Roth's writing alienated him from the Jewish community in America.
Joan Williams
Novelist Joan Williams, after a promising start, just disappeared. Why?
Five Cellos: Lost and Found
The Soul of Music
Kate Kennedy reflects on her quest to find Pal Hermann's cello, and his soul.
The Bee Cello
The story of an abandoned cello that a physicist has filled with 400,000 bees.
The Auschwitz Cello
How the cellist of Auschwitz, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch's life was saved by her cello.
The Shipwrecked Cello
The unlikely story of the reconstruction of the 'Mara' Stradivarius.
The Flat-Pack Cello
Kate Kennedy reflects on a reimagined cello whose story is yet to begin.
Highland Tails
The Reindeer
An Essay and reflection in poetry on the reintroduction of wild animals into the Highlands
The Sea Eagle
The Wallabies
The Beaver
The Bison
On Disappointment
Creative
Rachel Cooke takes a wry look at artistic disappointment.
Love
Rachel Cooke takes a wry look at the let-downs and disappointments of love.
Food
Rachel Cooke takes a wry look at disappointment with food.
Politics
Rachel Cooke looks at why political ambition invariably turns to disappointment.
Travel
Rachel Cooke takes a wry look at disappointing holidays, and how to avoid them.
Multitrack
The Djembe Drum: Beyond West Africa
A journey into the history and present of West Africa’s djembe drum.
Rhythm of the Run
Radio-maker and runner Ricardo Burt hits the London streets with DJ run crews.
An Turas / The Journey
A linguistic tour of modern Scotland, created as part of the Multitrack Audio Fellowship.
To Odesa
1. Ears
Ukrainian-American poet Ilya Kaminsky (author of Deaf Republic) on the city of his birth.
2. Departure
3. Watching
4. Crossing
