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From its modest beginnings in 1987, National Life Stories has grown significantly and helped to create one of the largest oral history collections in the world – the British Library holds some 70,000 recordings of which nearly 3,000 are long, in-depth biographical interviews created by National Life Stories. Each episode of this podcast will bring you a conversation with someone else associated with National Life Stories – from interviewers, to curators, to listening service and technical st ...
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Sculpting Lives is a podcast series written and presented by Jo Baring (https://www.jobaring.com/about) (Director of the Ingram Collection of Modern British & Contemporary Art) and Sarah Victoria Turner (https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/about/people/sarah-victoria-turner) (Deputy Director at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London). Dame Barbara Hepworth, Dame Elisabeth Frink, Kim Lim, Phyllida Barlow and Rana Begum – some of the most globally well-known British artis ...
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Welcome to Positive Advice – a brand new podcast brought to you by Chiva (https://www.chiva.org.uk/) , the charity supporting young people and young adults growing up with HIV to live healthy, happy lives and be more in control of their future. Hosted by Eli Fitzgerald, this series explores life growing up with HIV, using stories recorded as part of Chiva’s Positively Spoken oral history project - a collaboration with the British Library and funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. We s ...
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In the final instalment of this series, we explore HIV activism and what the future holds for young people living with HIV. Host Eli Fitzgerald chats with Chiva CEO Amanda Ely about why young people might be side lined when it comes to HIV activism and Dr Wendy Rickard tells us about oral history and HIV activism's long history. We hear from all ou…
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We’re back and this time Positive Advice is exploring relationships - be that intimate or friendships - and HIV. Host Eli Fitzgerald is joined by Matilda Brown from Chiva who supports young people exploring how living with HIV can affect your personal relationships. Amanda Ely and Ruth Muko also join them, and together listen to more of the life st…
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Welcome to the fourth episode of Positive Advice - Chiva’s podcast series that explores life growing up with HIV using stories recorded for Chiva’s Positively Spoken oral history project at the International AIDS Conference in 2022. This time we’re chatting about school experiences and education around HIV. Host Eli Fitzgerald is joined by independ…
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Welcome to another episode of Positive Advice - the podcast that shares the life stories found in the Chiva Positively Spoken Oral History project archives, recorded at the International AIDS conference in Montreal in 2022. Host Eli Fitzgerald picks up on the theme of healthcare environments and treatment, and is joined by Dr Caroline Foster - a sp…
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Positive Advice is back and this time host Eli Fitzgerald is joined by Dr Tomas Campbell, a consultant clinical psychologist, exploring how HIV can impact mental health. Amanda Ely and Ruth Muko from Chiva also join the discussion and we hear more of the life stories recorded at the International AIDS Conference in Montreal last summer for Chiva’s …
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Welcome to the first episode of Positive Advice – a brand new podcast brought to you by Chiva, the charity supporting young people and young adults growing up with HIV to live healthy, happy lives and be more in control of their future. Hosted by Eli Fitzgerald, this series explores life growing up with HIV, using stories recorded at the Internatio…
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Welcome to Positive Advice – a brand new podcast brought to you by Chiva, the charity supporting young people and young adults growing up with HIV to live healthy, happy lives and be more in control of their future. Hosted by Eli Fitzgerald, this series explores life growing up with HIV, using stories recorded as part of Chiva’s Positively Spoken O…
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S2 Ep6: Sculpting Lives: Making Sculpture Public
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Over the last year public sculpture has become a hugely controversial issue. No longer passive objects that we simply walk past on our streets, public sculptures are part of a vigorous debate about contemporary society – who is commemorated and represented, and why. In this episode we delve further into this subject, interviewing the people associa…
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S2 Ep5: Sculpting Lives: Cathie Pilkington
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'The thing about my work is that there is a tension between a passionate love and engagement with the traditions of the past and a complete impatience with their irrelevance and it’s trying to hold those things in tension and trying to engage people in the complexities of that.' Cathie Pilkington, R.A. Cathie Pilkington creates surreal, uncanny and…
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Alison Wilding emerged into the art world in the 1980s making powerful sculptural statements out of a myriad of materials. Taking sculpture out of the museum and off the plinth, Wilding’s work is some of the most enigmatic and beguiling sculpture being produced, and in a candid interview in her studio we ask her about influences, materials and her …
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'She did cause a bit of a revolution in the Royal Academy, which has been only to the good,' Anne Desmet, R.A. Gertrude Hermes was one of the most experimental sculptors of the twentieth century. She also changed the way women artists were treated at the Royal Academy forever – a story which had been overlooked until recently. Representing Britain …
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'I have been preoccupied all my life with a "sense of belonging." Growing up with an awareness of "being apart" has certainly defined who I am now. However, that alienation was in part to do with constantly moving – my parents never stayed in one place when we were younger for very long, so there was little chance of continued friendships, or a fee…
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“Sculpture has a vital, important message” Dora Gordine (1895-1991) When Dora Gordine died in 1991 leaving her Studio House to the nation, many people, including museum curators, assumed she had been dead for many years. How did an artist described by art critic Jan Gordon in The Observer in 1938 as ‘very possibly becoming the finest woman sculptor…
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Launching on 2nd November 2021, the second series of the Sculpting Lives podcast features episodes on Dora Gordine, Gertrude Hermes, Veronica Ryan, Alison Wilding and Cathie Pilkington. At a moment when public sculpture is the subject of contentious debate, the final episode of the second series focuses on questions of gender, public sculpture and …
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“I don’t want to use a language that really segregates people. I don’t want to use a language that makes them think about gender – if they are looking at a female artist or a male artist.” Rana Begum. Rana was born in Bangladesh and came to Britain as a child. She is an artist who works across sculptural materials and crosses disciplines. She is wo…
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“The first time I met him he said ‘Because you’re a woman, I’m not that interested because by the time you’re 30 you’ll be having babies and making jam.’” Phyllida Barlow on meeting her art school tutor Reg Butler Barlow is one of the best- known sculptors working in the UK at the moment and has had major international shows. Unrecognised by the wi…
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“Being female and foreign was never a problem as a student, later I realised that there was a difference, but what was important in the end, was what I did and not where I came from. Race and gender were givens I worked from, perhaps the work does reflect this which is fine, but I did not want to make them an issue.” Kim Lim Kim Lim was born in Sin…
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Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993) “She respected herself. She took herself seriously and she took the work seriously, due to the nature of the work. She knew what it was she wanted to explore.” Annette Ratuszniak, Curator, Frink Estate. In 1973 Elisabeth Frink became the first female sculptor to be elected as a Royal Academician. Frink was bor…
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S1 Ep1: Sculpting Lives: Barbara Hepworth
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“Hepworth... didn’t see herself as a feminist at all and didn’t see herself as ‘a pioneering woman’, she just felt she was a pioneering sculptor.” Stephen Feeke, curator and writer. Barbara Hepworth was born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, in 1903. By the time of her death in 1975, she had become one of the most important artists of the century, crea…
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Dame Barbara Hepworth, Dame Elisabeth Frink, Kim Lim, Phyllida Barlow, and Rana Begum - some of the most globally well-known British artists are women sculptors. Conversely, the profession and practice of sculpture was seen by many throughout the 20th century (and before) to be very much a man’s world. Often using heavy and hard materials, sculptur…
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Episode 6 of National Life Stories podcast features Paul Merchant talking to Charlie Morgan about his work on the project Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum. The oral histories conducted by Paul were part of a much larger project run out of Newman University, York University and the University of Kent and led by Dr Fern Elsdon Baker and P…
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Dr Liz Wright talks about a new collection of theatre design interviews available on British Library Sounds. This month National Life Stories publishes a new collection of theatre oral histories at British Library Sounds. The interviews that make up the collection capture life behind the scenes in British theatre - through the life stories of its d…
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Cathy Courtney, Project Director on the National Life Stories oral history projects Artists’ Lives and Architects’ Lives, chatted to David Govier for our fourth National Life Stories podcast. The conversation starts with why Cathy got into oral history, and moves on to discuss why oral historians ask about Christmas. Along the way you will hear ext…
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For our third National Life Stories podcast Charlie Morgan spoke to Steven Dryden, Broadcast Recordings Curator at the British Library and co-curator of the exhibition Gay UK: Love Law and Liberty. Gay UK ran from June-September 2017 and marked 50 years since the 1967 Sexual Offences Act and 60 years since the Wolfenden Report. The exhibition was e…
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Dr Tom Lean, Project Interviewer on An Oral History of the Electricity Supply Industry, chatted to David Govier for our second National Life Stories podcast. Tom takes us back to 1950s Lancashire when Granville Camsey (born 1936, shelfmark C1495/09) was about to become a power station apprentice. Granville eventually became a senior manager at the …
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1987 seems like a long time ago. Margaret Thatcher was re-elected for a third term in government, Everton topped the first division of the football league and Whitney Houston’s ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’ became the first UK Number 1 available on CD format. In that year Paul Thompson and Asa Briggs launched the National Life Stories Collection. F…
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