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Radio & Podcast

The 31: Ukraine's stolen children

Slow News (2)

What Just Happened?

LRB Conversations

Cher, singer and actor

Desert Island Discs (Cher)

Patricia Cornwell (podcast)

World Book Club

Tolstoy: War and the Russian Empire

Empire

The Lady Imposter

The History Listen

The agency accused of paying bribes for babies

Background Briefing (4)

May Wirth: bareback riding queen

The History Listen

Childen locked away: Britain's modern bedlam

Slow News

Trans-national adoption and "blending in"

The Philosopher's Zone

The Children's Homes Scandal

The Rest is Money

Samantha Morton on Growing Up in the Care Ssytem and Facing Adversity in the Acting World. Louis Theroux Podcast

Samantha Morton

The Magdalenes and I

Steven O'Riordan

The 'Troubled Teen' Industry

Truth & Consequences

CBC Come by Chance

CBC Podcasts

Coco Chanel

The Scandal Mongers Podcast

John Boyne on The Book Shelf with Ryan Tubridy

The Bookshelf

Each and Every Child

Each and Every Child

Better Reading Top 100: Criag Silvey on the Books that Shaped his Childhood

Better Reading

Wards of the State

Karlos Dillard

The language we use about children in care

Word of Mouth

Rhys Stephenson and Esther Manito

A Good Read

The Unfinished Prince

Stuff the British Stole (podcast)

Margo O'Byrne

Fremantle Shipping News

The kids who broke out of detention

Background Briefing

The Imprint Weekly Podcast

The Imprint Weekly Podcast

Stupid crooks, crooked cops and honest John

Conversations

Stripped of my spirituality

Heart and Soul

Jackie Kay

Desert Island Discs

PG Wodehouse

Great Lives

Madam CJ Walker

You're Dead to Me (Madam CJ Walker)

Guilty feminist Deborah Frances-White

Conversations

The unusual life of Elizabeth Macarthur

Conversations

JRR Tolkien's religious legacy

God Forbid

The Missing Magdalens

History Listen

Charlie Chaplin

Dan Snow's History Hit

Darcey & Chloe - How the system failed to save two baby girls

Background Briefing (3)

The floating hell of prison hulks

History Extra Podcast

The Tangled Branches of Lech Blaine’s Family Tree

Read This (Lech Blaine)

Baroness Floella Benjamin, DBE

Desert Island Discs

Episode 237. Marilyn Monroe

The Rest is History 2

Discovering you are not who you thought you were

ABC God Forbid

Hay Festival - Dickens in the 21st century

Start the Week

My ancestors were both slaves and slave owners

Malik Al Nasir

Frank Auerbach (Podcast)

This Cultural Life (Frank Auerbach)

Peter Bell and the singular quest of Kyung Ae

Peter Bell

Bluebells on Bunny Hill

Alan And Irene Brogan

Foundling: Found - a new podcast series

Julian Brown

The Second Victim: Daisy's Story

Daisy and Emma Barnaby

Hamilton: the man behind the musical

History Extra

The IMO Podcast: open and honest conversations with care leavers

IMO

Betty, Queen of Donks

Betty Klimenko

Loco Parentis Podcast

Twayna Mayne

The Horror Writer: Edgar Allan Poe

Denis O’Hare

John Lennon - Part 2: Joined to Yoko on Apple Podcasts

Personology

The babies of Holnicote House

Deborah Prior

Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller - Broadway and me

Jeffrey Seller

The Bed Under the Stairs

Lemn Sissay

Voices Unheard: Exploring Stigma of Children in Care through History to Modern Day with Dr Annie Skinner

Annie Skinner

JRR Tolkien

Short History of (JRR Tolkien)

The indestructible nature of Corey White

Corey White

Jeanette Winterson: the storyteller's tale

Jeanette Winterson

Robi Walters (podcast)

A life made beautiful by rubbish

The Unsent Letters of Erik Satie

BBC Radio 4

The Strange Life of Ingrid Von Oelhafen

The History Listen

The sisters reuniting separated siblings at camp

BBC Outlook

Baroness Lola Young: From foster care to the House of Lords

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Mary & George: the real history behind the new drama

History Extra Podcast

Child removal, women & class

Surviving Society

Alan Warner: Movern Callar

Bookclub (Warner)

Brian Cox on The Book Shelf with Ryan Tubridy

The Bookshelf

Stolen (2021)

Stolen

More to the story... Meeting your mum as an adult

Background Briefing (4a)

Patricia Cornwell

This Cultural Life

Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley

BBC Sounds

But We All Shine On

But We All Shine On

Voices in Action

Voices in Action

Pieces of a Man

BBC Radio 4

Astrid Lindgren, creator of Pippi Longstocking

Great Lives

Stacey Halls

Bookclub

Historical fiction with Jodi Picoult

The Penguin Podcast

From ‘devil’s child’ to star ballerina | Michaela DePrince

Ted Talks

Finding Finland

Finding Finland

Eleanor Roosevelt

Short History of (Roosevelt)

The forgotten children of the Empire

Conversations

The green suitcase and the secret family

Conversations

Benjamin Zephaniah (Podcast)

Desert Island Discs (Zephaniah)

Kiri Te Kanawa (Podcast)

This Cultural Life

Adoption and moral obligation

The Philosopher's Zone

Sir Isaac Newton

Short History of (Isaac Newton)

Life of the Week: Frederick Douglass

History Extra (Frederick Douglass)

Adoption: The Making of Me

Adoption: The Making of Me

How Stephen sang himself to life

Conversations (Stephen Smith)

The Book Club: Patricia Highsmith

The Bookshelf

Simon Woolley

Desert Island Discs (Simon Woolley)

James VI and I: Life of the Week

History Extra Podcast

Why Bond and the Beatles ruled the sixties

History Extra

How Walter Scott’s stories shaped Scotland

History Extra

Jennifer Down and Jonathan Franzen relive the 1970s

The Book Show

How Brendan Watkins claimed his birthright

Conversations (Brendan Watkins)

Frederick Douglas

You're Dead to Me (3)

Andrea Levy - Small Island

World Book Club

The UpEND Podcast

The UpEND Podcast

The Foster Friendly Movement

The Foster Friendly Podast

Anton Clifford-Motopi on finding his full name

Conversations (Anton Clifford-Motopi)

The Songwriter: Willie Nelson

American Masters

Episode 5. Person With Care Experience - BBC Sounds

Small Axe

The orphan hero: George King

Helen Berry

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte

Uncle Jack Charles: not true blue, true blak

Jack Charles

Inside A Mountain

PodBean Development

Jenni Fagan
12 Podcast Episodes

Jenni Fagan

Trevor Jordan: adoption and the ethics of secrets

Trevor Jordan

A Journey through the Disney Animated Classics

Daniel Lammin

Karen Menzies' hidden Aboriginal heritage

Karen Menzies

A mother I never knew — the secret of Peter Papathanasiou

Peter Papathanasiou

The Joy of Dickens

Johnny Pitts et al.

In and out of strife: Vickie Roach's turbulent life

Vickie Roach

Series 4 Episode 1

Birth & Justice

BBC Radio 4 - Child of the State

Lemn Sissay

An ode to the telephone

Melanie Tait

The wisdom of deep listening: Miriam Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann and Fleur Magick Dennis

Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann

New Norcia’s nuns and the riddle of reconciliation

Veronica Willaway

Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson

Dr Johnson's Black Heir

Empire

Lemn Sissay Is the One and Only

BBC Sounds (Sissay)

An obscenity trial that shocked Victorian Britain

History Extra Podcast (Besant)

Redacted Lives

Redacted Lives

Forest hermit to Professor:Dr Gregory P Smith

TEDxTalks

Jackie Kay: Trumpet

World Book Club

Alone with J.S. Bach

The History Listen

Malik and Mark

Descendants

Mary lawson: Crow Lake

BBC Book Club (Crow Lake)

Charlie Chaplin's Funny Walk and Other Music Hall Mysteries

The History Listen

How 700 Polish children made an unlikely journey from the depths of Siberia to the New Zealand countryside.

Stories from the Eastern West

The mums accused of poisoning their kids

Background Briefing

Fielding's Tom Jones

In Our Time

Edward Gibbon

In Our Time

Can new scientific evidence prove a convicted child-killer is innocent? | 60 Minutes Australia

60 Minutes Australia

Muhammad, Cervantes and the Algarve

LRB Podcast

Is adoption ethical

God Forbid

Sherlock Holmes

The Rest is History

The Sunday Read: 'The Blind Side' Made Him Famous. But He Has a Different Story to Tell

The Daily

Remembering Randall

Remembering Randall

Maya Angelou (radio)

World Book Club

A Reading Life, A Writing Life

A Reading Life, A Writing Life

Prince Alamayu

Great Lives (Sissay)

A Sea-Brooding Poet

TLS Podcast

Innocence and "child rescue" in the colonial imagination

The Philosopher's Zone

Dickens vs Tolstoy

Intelligence Squared

The Kids of Rutherford County

The Kids of Rutherford County

Rousseau on Inequality

Talking Politics: History of Ideas

Life after Adoption from Foster Care

The Measure of Everyday Life

Episode 74 - The Care Experienced Conference

The Adoption and Fostering Podcast

Who does Australia lock up?

Seriously Social

Today in Focus: Bangladesh

The Guardian

A free lunch

Life Changing with Jane Garvey

How to Tell Your Life Story: Rob Henderson

How I Write

One Another (Podcast)

Read This (Gail Jones

Douglass on Slavery

Talking Politics: History of Ideas

153. The Founding Fathers: Alexander Hamilton

Empire

Christmas with Charles Dickens

BBC You're Dead to Me

Philip Pullman (BBC)

World Book Club

Why my birth parents tried to keep me a secret

BBC Outlook

How Superman Defeated the KKK (in Real Life): Hear the World Changing 1946 Radio Drama

Open Culture

Adoptees Crossing Lines

Adoptees Crossing Lines

My long-lost sister was a surrogate mother to my twins

BBC Outlook

The Poet: Dr. Maya Angelou

American Masters

Access All: Disability News and Mental Health

Claire Baker

Mother of Lion, Sue Brierley, tells her story

Sue Brierley

Foundling: Found Episode 7, Mo Jamil

Julian Brown

Season 3, Episode 6 Dee Michell and Rosie Canning on Care Experience & Culture - Trauma Resonance Resilience

Lisa Cherry

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Matthew Henson: Courageous Discoverer Despite Racism

Matthew Henson

Poet Jackie Kay traces her journey to her birth parents

Jackie Kay

Nina Bernstein and June Norton on Ella Fitzgerald

American Masters

BBC Radio 4 - Books and Authors, Joyce Carol Oates, Wind in the Willows and Orphans in literature

Joyce Carol Oates

‎John Lennon - Part 1: Composer of Longing on Apple Podcasts

Personology

Edgar Allan Poe (Podcast)

In Our Time (Poe)

‎Daddy-Less Issues Podcast on Apple Podcasts

Chanel Ali Rollo et al.

The Children of Morelia

Destry Maria Sibley

From the Festivals — Lemn Sissay

Lemn Sissay

When Robert met Maida

Robert Tickner

‎The Penguin Podcast: Alex Wheatle with Nihal Arthanayake

Alex Wheatle et al

Mary Wilson — Dream Girl

Mary Wilson

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