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The mums accused of poisoning their kids

Background Briefing

Trans-national adoption and "blending in"

The Philosopher's Zone

How Brendan Watkins claimed his birthright

Conversations (Brendan Watkins)

Malik and Mark

Descendants

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

Stories from the Eastern West

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

Ted Talks

The Foster Friendly Movement

The Foster Friendly Podast

Coco Chanel

The Scandal Mongers Podcast

Stacey Halls

Bookclub

A Reading Life, A Writing Life

A Reading Life, A Writing Life

Today in Focus: Bangladesh

The Guardian

Margo O'Byrne

Fremantle Shipping News

The 'Troubled Teen' Industry

Truth & Consequences

Pieces of a Man

BBC Radio 4

Mary & George: the real history behind the new drama

History Extra Podcast

How Stephen sang himself to life

Conversations (Stephen Smith)

Kiri Te Kanawa (Podcast)

This Cultural Life

One Another (Podcast)

Read This (Gail Jones

Child removal, women & class

Surviving Society

JRR Tolkien's religious legacy

God Forbid

Historical fiction with Jodi Picoult

The Penguin Podcast

Sherlock Holmes

The Rest is History

The Magdalenes and I

Steven O'Riordan

Dickens vs Tolstoy

Intelligence Squared

The forgotten children of the Empire

Conversations

PG Wodehouse

Great Lives

Madam CJ Walker

You're Dead to Me (Madam CJ Walker)

The Missing Magdalens

History Listen

Anton Clifford-Motopi on finding his full name

Conversations (Anton Clifford-Motopi)

Edward Gibbon

In Our Time

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

60 Minutes Australia

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

Better Reading

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

Samantha Morton

Alone with J.S. Bach

The History Listen

Benjamin Zephaniah (Podcast)

Desert Island Discs (Zephaniah)

The Lady Imposter

The History Listen

How Walter Scott’s stories shaped Scotland

History Extra

A Sea-Brooding Poet

TLS Podcast

Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley

BBC Sounds

Alan Warner: Movern Callar

Bookclub (Warner)

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

From the Festivals — Lemn Sissay

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 - Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson

The Unsent Letters of Erik Satie

BBC Radio 4

Lemn Sissay Is the One and Only

BBC Sounds (Sissay)

The floating hell of prison hulks

History Extra Podcast

Astrid Lindgren, creator of Pippi Longstocking

Great Lives

The kids who broke out of detention

Background Briefing

Voices in Action

Voices in Action

Rhys Stephenson and Esther Manito

A Good Read

James VI and I: Life of the Week

History Extra Podcast

Stripped of my spirituality

Heart and Soul

Sir Isaac Newton

Short History of (Isaac Newton)

The 31: Ukraine's stolen children

Slow News (2)

Philip Pullman (BBC)

World Book Club

Patricia Cornwell (podcast)

World Book Club

The sisters reuniting separated siblings at camp

BBC Outlook

Hay Festival - Dickens in the 21st century

Start the Week

Charlie Chaplin

Dan Snow's History Hit

May Wirth: bareback riding queen

The History Listen

Prince Alamayu

Great Lives (Sissay)

Andrea Levy - Small Island

World Book Club

Brian Cox on The Book Shelf with Ryan Tubridy

The Bookshelf

Life of the Week: Frederick Douglass

History Extra (Frederick Douglass)

Baroness Floella Benjamin, DBE

Desert Island Discs

Redacted Lives

Redacted Lives

Finding Finland

Finding Finland

Who does Australia lock up?

Seriously Social

The Children's Homes Scandal

The Rest is Money

Christmas with Charles Dickens

BBC You're Dead to Me

Episode 237. Marilyn Monroe

The Rest is History 2

A free lunch

Life Changing with Jane Garvey

Eleanor Roosevelt

Short History of (Roosevelt)

An obscenity trial that shocked Victorian Britain

History Extra Podcast (Besant)

The Book Club: Patricia Highsmith

The Bookshelf

153. The Founding Fathers: Alexander Hamilton

Empire

Frederick Douglas

You're Dead to Me (3)

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

Open Culture

Life after Adoption from Foster Care

The Measure of Everyday Life

Forest hermit to Professor:Dr Gregory P Smith

TEDxTalks

Maya Angelou (radio)

World Book Club

Stolen (2021)

Stolen

Mary lawson: Crow Lake

BBC Book Club (Crow Lake)

The Poet: Dr. Maya Angelou

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

The Bed Under the Stairs

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: the storyteller's tale

Jeanette Winterson

Each and Every Child

Each and Every Child

The Imprint Weekly Podcast

The Imprint Weekly Podcast

Discovering you are not who you thought you were

ABC God Forbid

Adoption and moral obligation

The Philosopher's Zone

Robi Walters (podcast)

A life made beautiful by rubbish

The Strange Life of Ingrid Von Oelhafen

The History Listen

Fielding's Tom Jones

In Our Time

Dr Johnson's Black Heir

Empire

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

Background Briefing (3)

Why my birth parents tried to keep me a secret

BBC Outlook

The Unfinished Prince

Stuff the British Stole (podcast)

Rousseau on Inequality

Talking Politics: History of Ideas

Adoptees Crossing Lines

Adoptees Crossing Lines

Wards of the State

Karlos Dillard

The Kids of Rutherford County

The Kids of Rutherford County

Childen locked away: Britain's modern bedlam

Slow News

Douglass on Slavery

Talking Politics: History of Ideas

John Boyne on The Book Shelf with Ryan Tubridy

The Bookshelf

Why Bond and the Beatles ruled the sixties

History Extra

Muhammad, Cervantes and the Algarve

LRB Podcast

What Just Happened?

LRB Conversations

The language we use about children in care

Word of Mouth

Jackie Kay: Trumpet

World Book Club

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

BBC Outlook

Patricia Cornwell

This Cultural Life

The unusual life of Elizabeth Macarthur

Conversations

Jackie Kay

Desert Island Discs

Stupid crooks, crooked cops and honest John

Conversations

The UpEND Podcast

The UpEND Podcast

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

The Daily

Remembering Randall

Remembering Randall

Episode 74 - The Care Experienced Conference

The Adoption and Fostering Podcast

Jennifer Down and Jonathan Franzen relive the 1970s

The Book Show

Adoption: The Making of Me

Adoption: The Making of Me

Tolstoy: War and the Russian Empire

Empire

Is adoption ethical

God Forbid

Simon Woolley

Desert Island Discs (Simon Woolley)

Charlie Chaplin's Funny Walk and Other Music Hall Mysteries

The History Listen

Guilty feminist Deborah Frances-White

Conversations

The green suitcase and the secret family

Conversations

The Songwriter: Willie Nelson

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

BBC Radio 4 - Child of the State

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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