Radio Bimshire Presents
by Radio Bimshire
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This Barbadian Life - 16 - "Fallen but not forgotten"
This Barbadian Life - 16 - "Fallen but not forgotten"
About this podcast
Catch up or listen on-demand with the best of Radio Bimshire - the Voice of the Barbados National Library Service (https://bit.ly/radiobimshire). Radio Bimshire Presents is a selection of short stories, poetry, history, rare audio clips and humour - the sound of Barbadian heritage. Featuring: This Barbadian Life: real voices, true stories, only in Barbados; Off The Shelf: Readings of Barbadian writing; Reparations Revealed; Standpipe: Memories of Wash Day; Sounds of Freedom: Stories of Emancipation... and much more.
Episodes
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- This Barbadian Life - 16 - "Fallen but not forgotten" · 18 min · Season 1 Episode 16A woman selling fruit. A 15-year-old baker. Women carrying the wounded to hospital. Behind the names on a memorial are lives that helped shape Barbados. In this episode of This…
- This Barbadian Life - 15 - "Journey to Tuk" · 17 min · Season 1 Episode 15A penny whistle, a change of breath and a musical journey around the world. In this episode of This Barbadian Life, musician Karl “Froggy” Smith recalls how a workshop in 1987…
- This Barbadian Life - 14 - "The records show" · 16 min · Season 1 Episode 14What happens when the family history you know meets the history somebody wrote down? In The Records Show, Shayla Murrell speaks with chief archivist Ingrid Thompson about the…
- This Barbadian Life - 13 - "Duppy Trails and Tours" · 19 min · Season 1 Episode 13You set out expecting a fright. You come back thinking about the people behind the stories. In this episode of This Barbadian Life, Julius Gittens introduces an encore of Duppy…
- Writing the Short Story - "A Surprise for Agnes" · 19 min · Season 1 Episode 2What makes a short story come alive on radio? In this concluding episode of Writing the Short Story, Radio Bimshire explores Timothy Callender’s A Surprise for Agnes, a tale of…
- Writing the Short Story - “The Shoe” · 16 min · Season 1 Episode 1“The Shoe” by Dorothy Lovell is the subject of Writing the Short Story , the first of two programmes exploring how powerful fiction can be shaped in just a few pages. Using…
- The Lessons Between The Songs - Gabby and Sparrow · 25 minThe Lessons Between the Songs is an extraordinary intimate portrait of two masters of the art of kaiso - in tribute to Trinidad and Tobago’s Mighty Sparrow, Gabby offers memories…
- Timothy Callender Memorial Short Story Prize - Longlist announcement · 3 minThe National Library Service of Barbados and Radio Bimshire proudly announce the longlist of 15 finalists in the Patriotic Pen series - the inaugural Timothy Callender Memorial…
- House on James Street: Episode six of six - "Heroine and Enslaver" · 20 min · Season 1 Episode 6In the conclusion of House on James Street, episode six – “Heroine and Enslaver”, we confront the most uncomfortable truth in the life of National Hero, the Right Excellent Sarah…
- Bob Marley (Emancipation) Mass · 1 h 52 minA special presentation of an history worship service from St Barnabas Church, St Michael, in 2026, marking the Season of Emancipation and the Day of National Significance (July…
- This Barbadian Life - 12 - "'Salt' - On the Road" · 14 min · Season 1 Episode 12In this third and final part of her conversation with him, producer Shayla Murrell sits down with veteran Crop Over bandleader and masquerade designer Christopher "Salt" Williams…
- This Barbadian Life - 11 - "Salty! Rough seas" · 10 min · Season 1 Episode 11In this episode of This Barbadian Life, producer Shayla Murrell sits with Christopher "Salt" Williams to trace his journey from early mas experiments to “Landship Mas” and the…
- This Barbadian Life - 10 - "'Salt' - From Sketches to Spectacle" · 19 min · Season 1 Episode 10Since the 1980s, veteran bandleader and costume designer Christopher “Salt” Williams has been turning sketches into spectacle for everyday Bajans on the Crop Over road. From…
- House on James Street: Episode five - "From Ann to Sarah" · 16 min · Season 1 Episode 5In House on James Street, episode five – “From Ann to Sarah”, a free coloured woman in Bridgetown, Anne Gill opens her home to persecuted Methodists and finds herself at the…
- House on James Street: Episode four - "Missionaries, Mobs and the Conventicle Act" · 15 min · Season 1 Episode 4House on James Street, episode four, follows the arrival of Moravian and Methodist missionaries into an island society built on sugar, slavery and Anglican respectability – and…
- Sounds of Freedom III - episode 5 - "Wealth Built on Bondage" (part two) · 7 min · Season 3 Episode 5We continue the story of how one British family accumulated and protected wealth built on sugar, slavery and the suffering of enslaved Africans in Barbados in this second part of…
- House on James Street: Episode three - Free Coloured Women, Property and Power · 21 min · Season 1 Episode 3Before she was a National Hero, Sarah Ann Gill was a woman of property in Bridgetown, navigating the brutal contradictions of a slave society. In this episode, we explore the…
- Sounds of Freedom III - episode 4 - "Wealth Built on Bondage" (part one) · 11 min · Season 3 Episode 4Wealth Built on Bondage (Part One) traces how the Drax family built and preserved generational wealth from sugar, slavery and land ownership in Barbados and Dorset, and asks what…
- Sounds of Freedom III - Esther Phillips - 3 - “Monkey Noko” · 6 min · Season 3 Episode 3Sounds of Freedom III: Esther Phillips and the legend of Monkey Noko digs into the haunting legacy of Drax Hall Plantation and the unfinished business of emancipation in…
- House on James Street: Episode two - Building a slave society · 15 min · Season 1 Episode 2In Episode Two - "Building A Slave Society" - House on James Street explores the roots of the world that would one day define Sarah Ann Gill. Joining us is historian Professor…
