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Radio & Podcast

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

Better Reading

153. The Founding Fathers: Alexander Hamilton

Empire

James VI and I: Life of the Week

History Extra Podcast

Astrid Lindgren, creator of Pippi Longstocking

Great Lives

The UpEND Podcast

The UpEND Podcast

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

Stories from the Eastern West

Patricia Cornwell (podcast)

World Book Club

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

Samantha Morton

Adoption and moral obligation

The Philosopher's Zone

Today in Focus: Bangladesh

The Guardian

The green suitcase and the secret family

Conversations

Why my birth parents tried to keep me a secret

BBC Outlook

Jennifer Down and Jonathan Franzen relive the 1970s

The Book Show

Kiri Te Kanawa (Podcast)

This Cultural Life

Historical fiction with Jodi Picoult

The Penguin Podcast

The Magdalenes and I

Steven O'Riordan

JRR Tolkien's religious legacy

God Forbid

Trans-national adoption and "blending in"

The Philosopher's Zone

Mary & George: the real history behind the new drama

History Extra Podcast

The language we use about children in care

Word of Mouth

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

BBC Outlook

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

60 Minutes Australia

Lemn Sissay Is the One and Only

BBC Sounds (Sissay)

Voices in Action

Voices in Action

Anton Clifford-Motopi on finding his full name

Conversations (Anton Clifford-Motopi)

Stupid crooks, crooked cops and honest John

Conversations

A Reading Life, A Writing Life

A Reading Life, A Writing Life

Charlie Chaplin's Funny Walk and Other Music Hall Mysteries

The History Listen

Why Bond and the Beatles ruled the sixties

History Extra

Andrea Levy - Small Island

World Book Club

The 31: Ukraine's stolen children

Slow News (2)

Patricia Cornwell

This Cultural Life

PG Wodehouse

Great Lives

Alan Warner: Movern Callar

Bookclub (Warner)

The Unfinished Prince

Stuff the British Stole (podcast)

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

Background Briefing (3)

The Book Club: Patricia Highsmith

The Bookshelf

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

Ted Talks

Margo O'Byrne

Fremantle Shipping News

An obscenity trial that shocked Victorian Britain

History Extra Podcast (Besant)

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 - a new podcast series

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 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

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

The Imprint Weekly Podcast

The Imprint Weekly Podcast

Stripped of my spirituality

Heart and Soul

Madam CJ Walker

You're Dead to Me (Madam CJ Walker)

The Lady Imposter

The History Listen

Childen locked away: Britain's modern bedlam

Slow News

A free lunch

Life Changing with Jane Garvey

Guilty feminist Deborah Frances-White

Conversations

Episode 74 - The Care Experienced Conference

The Adoption and Fostering Podcast

Wards of the State

Karlos Dillard

Is adoption ethical

God Forbid

Finding Finland

Finding Finland

Brian Cox on The Book Shelf with Ryan Tubridy

The Bookshelf

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

Open Culture

Child removal, women & class

Surviving Society

Dr Johnson's Black Heir

Empire

Charlie Chaplin

Dan Snow's History Hit

May Wirth: bareback riding queen

The History Listen

Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley

BBC Sounds

Rhys Stephenson and Esther Manito

A Good Read

Tolstoy: War and the Russian Empire

Empire

How Walter Scott’s stories shaped Scotland

History Extra

Jackie Kay

Desert Island Discs

Coco Chanel

The Scandal Mongers Podcast

Eleanor Roosevelt

Short History of (JRR Tolkien)

Stolen (2021)

Stolen

The Children's Homes Scandal

The Rest is Money

The Missing Magdalens

History Listen

Adoption: The Making of Me

Adoption: The Making of Me

Pieces of a Man

BBC Radio 4

Hay Festival - Dickens in the 21st century

Start the Week

The 'Troubled Teen' Industry

Truth & Consequences

Redacted Lives

Redacted Lives

Prince Alamayu

Great Lives (Sissay)

The unusual life of Elizabeth Macarthur

Conversations

The forgotten children of the Empire

Conversations

Benjamin Zephaniah (Podcast)

Desert Island Discs (Zephaniah)

Jackie Kay: Trumpet

World Book Club

The sisters reuniting separated siblings at camp

BBC Outlook

Christmas with Charles Dickens

BBC You're Dead to Me

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 Episode 7, Mo Jamil

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 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

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

Sir Isaac Newton

Short History of (Isaac Newton)

The mums accused of poisoning their kids

Background Briefing

The floating hell of prison hulks

History Extra Podcast

Maya Angelou (radio)

World Book Club

Each and Every Child

Each and Every Child

Muhammad, Cervantes and the Algarve

LRB Podcast

Life of the Week: Frederick Douglass

History Extra (Frederick Douglass)

Discovering you are not who you thought you were

ABC God Forbid

The Unsent Letters of Erik Satie

BBC Radio 4

Remembering Randall

Remembering Randall

The Strange Life of Ingrid Von Oelhafen

The History Listen

Life after Adoption from Foster Care

The Measure of Everyday Life

Forest hermit to Professor:Dr Gregory P Smith

TEDxTalks

Sherlock Holmes

The Rest is History

What Just Happened?

LRB Conversations

How Stephen sang himself to life

Conversations (Stephen Smith)

A Sea-Brooding Poet

TLS Podcast

Adoptees Crossing Lines

Adoptees Crossing Lines

How Brendan Watkins claimed his birthright

Conversations (Brendan Watkins)

Robi Walters (podcast)

A life made beautiful by rubbish

Who does Australia lock up?

Seriously Social

The kids who broke out of detention

Background Briefing

Frederick Douglas

You're Dead to Me (3)

Alone with J.S. Bach

The History Listen

Malik and Mark

Descendants

Stacey Halls

Bookclub

Mary lawson: Crow Lake

BBC Book Club (Crow Lake)

Rousseau on Inequality

Talking Politics: History of Ideas

Simon Woolley

Desert Island Discs (Simon Woolley)

Douglass on Slavery

Talking Politics: History of Ideas

Philip Pullman (BBC)

World Book Club

Dickens vs Tolstoy

Intelligence Squared

Baroness Floella Benjamin, DBE

Desert Island Discs

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

The Daily

The Kids of Rutherford County

The Kids of Rutherford County

John Boyne on The Book Shelf with Ryan Tubridy

The Bookshelf

Episode 237. Marilyn Monroe

The Rest is History 2

One Another (Podcast)

Read This (Gail Jones

Edward Gibbon

In Our Time

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

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