INFORMAZIONI SU QUESTO PODCAST 🔗

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Inglese
Regno Unito
7 episodi
da 08 Febbraio 2024
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Over the years, Scottish islands have become collector items for the rich and famous. The Isle of Ulva has always been considered the perfect possession and it’s suffered more than most. Once home to 600 people, just five were left in 2015. Can this tiny community bring their almost-deserted island…

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2. Loaf by Loaf

For Liverpool fans, the pilgrimage to the Anfield stadium is the defining feature of home games. But come here when the football’s not on and you’ll find the streets are strangely empty. Where one big red business is worth billions, just down the road are rows of boarded up houses and shuttered sho…

3. Halls of Hope

Miners’ Institutes used to be the centre of every village across the South Wales coalfield. Paid for and built by the miners themselves, they were a place to organise, to meet and to learn. When pit closures began, hundreds of these buildings were forced to close. These ruins of industrial culture…

4. The Ripple Effect

Walking along the River Wye’s banks, it seems elegant and everlasting, but beneath the surface all is not well. In this episode, we meet people living along the river who have trained as “citizen scientists” to monitor water pollution themselves. Braving muddy banks and wet feet every week, what dr…

5. From the Ground Up

Gardens and green spaces might not be what springs to mind when you think of the industrial heartlands of Birmingham. But the city has long been the allotment capital of the UK, and these spaces are crucial to the rhythms of inner-city life. In the aftermath of the 1980s Handsworth uprisings, it wa…
London markets itself as a world-class queer city. But the capital has lost 58% of its LGBTQ+ venues since 2006. Why are queer spaces disappearing so rapidly and what has been lost? When legendary queer pub The Joiners Arms was shut down by developers in 2015, it didn’t go without a fight. In this …

Introducing Now Here

From a Liverpudlian pie shop reviving abandoned streets to a Welsh village reclaiming a radical past. From ‘citizen scientists’ exposing the slow death of the river Wye to activists resisting the loss of London’s queer spaces. Now Here tells stories of people fighting back. These very different lan…
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