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5 December 2020
LGBTQ+ British History
LGBTQ+ history needs to be remembered, but is instead often forgotten or purposefully erased. Here's a brief summary of the LGBTQ+ events in Britain in the past few hundreds of years.
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30 November 2020
Remembering Frank Soo
Know the name Frank Soo? Despite his trailblazing role in sporting history, this former Stoke and Leicester player is a forgotten legend of English football and is still the only player of East Asian heritage to play for England.
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19 November 2020
The New Vic: Establishing community through the power of theatre
I explore the historic nature of the New Vic theatre and how it is rooted in the community, and what work the theatre is doing to reach out.
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25 August 2020
Can the news be objective?
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.”
George Orwell
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10 August 2020
Truth and Trust: the Rise and Fall of the Expert
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
Isaac Asimov
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29 July 2020
'Are we attracted to Fascism?'
An essay that seeks to answer whether the human species inherently craves Fascism, by analysing the works of key political sociologists, pyschologists, and philosophers.
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28 May 2020
Will Covid-19 affect attitudes to immigration?
Should we expect a post-Covid Britain to be more hospitable for immigrants? History suggests there’s no guarantee.
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21 April 2020
Interview with Luke Earle, New Creative
"That's what gaming music does for many, takes us back to those happy times."
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21 April 2020 – 31 May 2020
Script-writing competition launched by RAF Benevolent Fund
Help mark the 80th anniversary fo the Battle of Britain by submitting your audio drama scripts
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21 March 2020
Incredible women that made a difference in music history
With International Women's Day being last week, I wanted to research some of my favourite revolutionary female musicians in history, who fought for their place in music history before the media existed.
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4 July 2019
An Interview with Polly Clamorous
Polly Clamorous are a four-piece musical comedy cabaret group, whose performances detail the lives of women from history, as well as modern day issues which women face daily.
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3 April 2019
Making America Funny Again
An interactive medley of all the strange habits, foibles and occasional moral fibres that brought the UK and the USA together during WW2.
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29 March 2019
Divorced, Beheaded, Died: An Audience with King Henry VIII
Enjoy an evening with King Henry VIII as he travels the realm.
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26 January 2019
How The Vote Was Won + Beyond
Witness a rare staging of one of the most famous suffragette plays – How The Vote Was Won – and consider how we today might pursue change through theatre.
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2 November 2018
My heritage journey
Here's how I came to be writing the new Museums and Heritage series...
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20 August 2018
Miranda Kaufman with Afua Hirsch: Africans in Tudor England
A fascinating discussion of Kaufman’s book, Black Tudors, and the parts of history we’ve lost or forgotten