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Eleanor Roosevelt

Short History of (JRR Tolkien)

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

Stories from the Eastern West

Stolen (2021)

Stolen

Stupid crooks, crooked cops and honest John

Conversations

Jennifer Down and Jonathan Franzen relive the 1970s

The Book Show

Trans-national adoption and "blending in"

The Philosopher's Zone

Who does Australia lock up?

Seriously Social

Wards of the State

Karlos Dillard

The 'Troubled Teen' Industry

Truth & Consequences

The floating hell of prison hulks

History Extra Podcast

The kids who broke out of detention

Background Briefing

Andrea Levy - Small Island

World Book Club

Patricia Cornwell

This Cultural Life

Sherlock Holmes

The Rest is History

Anton Clifford-Motopi on finding his full name

Conversations (Anton Clifford-Motopi)

May Wirth: bareback riding queen

The History Listen

Margo O'Byrne

Fremantle Shipping News

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

Samantha Morton

Why my birth parents tried to keep me a secret

BBC Outlook

Life of the Week: Frederick Douglass

History Extra (Frederick Douglass)

Discovering you are not who you thought you were

ABC God Forbid

John Boyne on The Book Shelf with Ryan Tubridy

The Bookshelf

Voices in Action

Voices in Action

Finding Finland

Finding Finland

The Imprint Weekly Podcast

The Imprint Weekly Podcast

Muhammad, Cervantes and the Algarve

LRB Podcast

Child removal, women & class

Surviving Society

James VI and I: Life of the Week

History Extra Podcast

The Book Club: Patricia Highsmith

The Bookshelf

Dickens vs Tolstoy

Intelligence Squared

Today in Focus: Bangladesh

The Guardian

The Missing Magdalens

History Listen

A Sea-Brooding Poet

TLS Podcast

Tolstoy: War and the Russian Empire

Empire

Hay Festival - Dickens in the 21st century

Start the Week

Philip Pullman (BBC)

World Book Club

The Songwriter: Willie Nelson

American Masters

Peter Bell and the singular quest of Kyung Ae

Peter Bell

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte

Uncle Jack Charles: not true blue, true blak

Jack Charles

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 2: Joined to Yoko 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

The Bed Under the Stairs

Lemn Sissay

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

Remembering Randall

Remembering Randall

Adoptees Crossing Lines

Adoptees Crossing Lines

Charlie Chaplin

Dan Snow's History Hit

Jackie Kay: Trumpet

World Book Club

Prince Alamayu

Great Lives (Sissay)

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

Open Culture

Stacey Halls

Bookclub

Rhys Stephenson and Esther Manito

A Good Read

The language we use about children in care

Word of Mouth

Patricia Cornwell (podcast)

World Book Club

Redacted Lives

Redacted Lives

The green suitcase and the secret family

Conversations

How Stephen sang himself to life

Conversations (Stephen Smith)

How Brendan Watkins claimed his birthright

Conversations (Brendan Watkins)

Guilty feminist Deborah Frances-White

Conversations

Pieces of a Man

BBC Radio 4

The 31: Ukraine's stolen children

Slow News (2)

PG Wodehouse

Great Lives

The mums accused of poisoning their kids

Background Briefing

Benjamin Zephaniah (Podcast)

Desert Island Discs (Zephaniah)

The forgotten children of the Empire

Conversations

Edward Gibbon

In Our Time

A free lunch

Life Changing with Jane Garvey

One Another (Podcast)

Read This (Gail Jones

Rousseau on Inequality

Talking Politics: History of Ideas

The Lady Imposter

The History Listen

Simon Woolley

Desert Island Discs (Simon Woolley)

An obscenity trial that shocked Victorian Britain

History Extra Podcast (Besant)

Alone with J.S. Bach

The History Listen

The UpEND Podcast

The UpEND Podcast

The Unsent Letters of Erik Satie

BBC Radio 4

How Walter Scott’s stories shaped Scotland

History Extra

Each and Every Child

Each and Every Child

The Kids of Rutherford County

The Kids of Rutherford County

Jackie Kay

Desert Island Discs

My ancestors were both slaves and slave owners

Malik Al Nasir

Frank Auerbach (Podcast)

This Cultural Life (Frank Auerbach)

The orphan hero: George King

Helen Berry

Foundling: Found - a new podcast series

Julian Brown

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

Lisa Cherry

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 1: Composer of Longing 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

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

The sisters reuniting separated siblings at camp

BBC Outlook

Dr Johnson's Black Heir

Empire

Robi Walters (podcast)

A life made beautiful by rubbish

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

Better Reading

Forest hermit to Professor:Dr Gregory P Smith

TEDxTalks

Stripped of my spirituality

Heart and Soul

Adoption: The Making of Me

Adoption: The Making of Me

What Just Happened?

LRB Conversations

Douglass on Slavery

Talking Politics: History of Ideas

Astrid Lindgren, creator of Pippi Longstocking

Great Lives

Frederick Douglas

You're Dead to Me (3)

Childen locked away: Britain's modern bedlam

Slow News

Lemn Sissay Is the One and Only

BBC Sounds (Sissay)

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

BBC Outlook

Adoption and moral obligation

The Philosopher's Zone

Episode 74 - The Care Experienced Conference

The Adoption and Fostering Podcast

Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley

BBC Sounds

The Unfinished Prince

Stuff the British Stole (podcast)

A Reading Life, A Writing Life

A Reading Life, A Writing Life

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

Background Briefing (3)

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

Ted Talks

Why Bond and the Beatles ruled the sixties

History Extra

Brian Cox on The Book Shelf with Ryan Tubridy

The Bookshelf

Malik and Mark

Descendants

The Magdalenes and I

Steven O'Riordan

Charlie Chaplin's Funny Walk and Other Music Hall Mysteries

The History Listen

The unusual life of Elizabeth Macarthur

Conversations

Maya Angelou (radio)

World Book Club

Madam CJ Walker

You're Dead to Me (Madam CJ Walker)

Mary lawson: Crow Lake

BBC Book Club (Crow Lake)

Episode 237. Marilyn Monroe

The Rest is History 2

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

60 Minutes Australia

JRR Tolkien's religious legacy

God Forbid

Mary & George: the real history behind the new drama

History Extra Podcast

Christmas with Charles Dickens

BBC You're Dead to Me

The Poet: Dr. Maya Angelou

American Masters

Episode 5. Person With Care Experience - BBC Sounds

Small Axe

Mother of Lion, Sue Brierley, tells her story

Sue Brierley

Foundling: Found Episode 7, Mo Jamil

Julian Brown

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

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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