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Illuminated is BBC Radio 4's home for creative and surprising one-off documentaries that shed light on hidden worlds.
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- Epilepsy and the Electric Spirit · 29 minA moment in the cinema, watching a horror film, made Daniel Kraemer look at his condition - epilepsy - in a new way. Why has epilepsy consistently been painted by society as…
- The Mysterious Case of Annie Elizabeth · 29 minLois Pryce has a mystery growing in her garden. On the banks of the River Thames stands an enormous old apple tree, producing fruit unlike any she has seen before. For years…
- Grandchildren of the ’56 Revolution · 29 minThe Hungarian Revolution of 1956 cemented the Cold War, confirming the USSR’s dominance over Eastern Europe and the limitations of NATO. Many thousands were killed. As we…
- Third Man Syndrome · 30 minIn 1916, struggling across the mountains of South Georgia after the loss of the Endurance, Ernest Shackleton sensed that his party of three had become four. T.S. Eliot carried…
- Faithless · 29 minFor much of their lives, Micki, Esther, Nicola and Colin were devoted members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Nigerian Deeper Life Bible Church and Mormonism, respectively. Each…
- Izabela in Peru · 29 minYoung Polish field-recordist Izabela Dłużyk travels to the Amazonian rainforest of Peru. Izabela, blind from birth, is a self-taught recordist with a wonderful ears for sound and…
- The Power of the Bayeux Tapestry · 29 minRadio 4 is marking the arrival of the Bayeux Tapestry in Britain with a day of programmes on the Norman Conquest and its lasting legacy today. George Parker, political editor of…
- Bouncing off the Walls: A Prison Soundscape · 29 minFootsteps on a metal walkway. The jangle of keys and the resonant clang of thick steel doors slamming. The clamour of voices raised in conversation, or argument, or laughter……
- Ringing the Bullring · 29 minYou might know Birmingham's Bullring as one of the UK's premiere shopping destinations, or somewhere to pass through on your way to visit Birmingham's famous Christmas Market…
- The Grand North Atlantic Home Video Archive · 29 minGrowing up in rural Derry, author Séamas O’Reilly and his siblings never needed to go to Blockbuster. Instead, they were enraptured by their father’s archive of hundreds of films…
- James Hutton and The Restless Earth · 29 minAward winning Scottish folksinger, songwriter and storyteller, Karine Polwart celebrates the 300th anniversary of James Hutton’s birth, the Scottish scientist and philosopher…
- Precious Stones · 29 min"Some losses feel seismic. The ground shifts, familiar landscapes tilt, and nothing is the same. Dad’s death changed our world. But it also left us with a distinctly geological…
- Unreliable Narrator · 29 minHow do you tell the story of your life when you have no memory of the events that shaped you? At 15, Stephen McAll was a promising musician with a head full of songs. He was…
- A Most Magickal Encounter · 29 minWriter Tim Dee is trying to make a most extraordinary Zoom Call that will transport him across the centuries to have a most magical encounter with a scholarly looking guy with a…
- Dear Gilbert, Dear Gordon · 29 minWhen museum curator Mark Hignett began buying WWII-era letters online, he believed he was piecing together the life of an ordinary soldier. At first glance, the letters looked…
- Later Life Letter · 29 minThis is a love letter to a special kind of letter, a 'later life letter' - a letter that can 'speak across the years', telling an adopted child where they come from, and helping…
- July Morning · 29 minWe're at the Black Sea coast on the last night of June. Everything is building up to the sunrise. This is Bulgaria’s ‘July Morning’ observance - somewhere between a…
- If We Can Walk Together · 29 minWhat does it take to choose peace when you have every reason not to? Aziz Abu Sarah is a Palestinian who grew up under Israeli occupation in East Jerusalem. He was first shot at…
- A Body of Water · 29 minWater has always been a threshold - a space between worlds where transformation unfolds. But what if the lakes, rivers, and seas we surrender ourselves to are not merely passive…
- The House in the Hole · 28 minOn a hot summer’s day in 1991, a violent crime took place that shook Consett, a town in the North East of England. When threatened with the legal demolition of a property he…
