Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out The small but meaningful things we say to ourselves to guide us and remind us of ourselves each day
Now is only a moment - there are plenty more to come We meet ordinary people and hear their daily meditations. We learn how they discovered the prayer, how it’s message has matured and maybe even changed over time
Go placidly & remember what peace there may be in silence The rule is that it needs to be something that’s said out loud daily as part of someone’s spiritual practice
'We're off to see a man about a handbag' says Sister Aura Fister as she and Sister Naomi Shambles, Sister Sadie of the Gaping Chasm and Novice Niche Whimsy go on a pilgrimage to the Museum of Croydon to meet Mother Molly of Claphouse Fame.
Meet the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence - a worldwide order of Queer Nuns whose - sacred clowning and deadly serious vows make them the benevolent stormtroopers of LGBTQ+ rights activism
Produced by Bruce Guthrie & the museum's artist in residence, Mark Goldby.
Three people who've never met before choose music for each other based solely on their answers to our SEVEN questions: 1. Tell us your name and where you were born 2. What’s your favourite meal that you cook for yourself 3. Something that makes you feel excited 4. Something that makes you feel fearful 5. You’re most likely to 6. You’re least likey to 7. Finally – tell us your guiding motto
In this analog radio installation micro FM transmitters hide in the space and visitors have FM radios to help on treasure hunt for sounds
Produced in collaboration with Rosa Eaton & Phil Sansom as part of our MA in Radio Documentary at UWE Bristol
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Shroukie: Dancing Queer
Shroukie is an electronics engineer from Egypt. She’s also an asylum seeker who successfully fought the Home Office for the right to go to university AND she’s a bearded belly dancer who campaigns for LGBTQ+ rights back home
This the story of a rich and privileged girl who never returned home after her London holiday, who found herself alone and estranged from her family in Cardiff and someone who fought too hard to be an engineer to let herself be seen as merely an award winning queer activist.
She’s building a new life in Bristol but where is home? How can she manage her feelings of guilt, anger, doubt and joy?
Hillfields 100 BCFM's 12 Communities 1 Bristol series broadcast August 2019
Celebrating the 100th birthday of Britain's social housing at the Hillfields Estate Contributors Jan Ross & George Campbell-Touray (Hillfields Family & Community Trust)
Councillor Anna Keen (Bristol City Council)
Terry King (Fishponds Locality Action Group and local residents Janet Fry & Bob Rodman With thanks to Ruth Myers & Pete Insole of Local Learning BCFM andM Shed
My dad Malcolm, sister Fiona and brother Tim talk about my mum Audrie's treasured kitchen utensil in a memorial to her and to her spatula.
My idea for the memorial was the history of one family in one object and what it says about my family. This is the story of the untold heroes of domestic life.
The ordinariness of things that allows for meaning to be made. The manner in which the spirits of people so often get captured within domestic objects.