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A View From A Bridge

Joe Bloom

6 episodes

6 days ago

Welcome to the A View From A Bridge Podcast! Each episode is a carefully curated selection of stories, experiences, and views from an eclectic and wide ranging selection of guests, including familiar voices, and passers by who have picked up our red phone. It’s the show where human stories come first. No interviewer, no studio. Just people talking into a telephone from a bridge.

Presented + Produced by : Joe Bloom

Podcast Producer : Hattie Moir

Original music : Joi Wiren, Ross Woodhead, Ned Prevezer

Sound Design : Eva Krysiak

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Presented + Produced by : Joe Bloom

Podcast Producer : Hattie Moir

Original music : Joi Wiren, Ross Woodhead, Ned Prevezer

Sound Design : Eva Krysiak

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Society & Culture

Arts

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Leaving Home

A View From A Bridge

43 minutes 3 seconds

2 weeks ago

Leaving Home

Home can be the house you grew up in. The country you were born in. It can be a person, a feeling, or an unidentifiable sense of safety. Sometimes people leave home because it isn’t safe, sometimes they leave to become who they are supposed to be, and sometimes the decision to leave is made for them. The search for safety, or the decision to leave it behind is something that joins all of today's stories.

Dymtro, a teenager confronted with a decision, after the Russian invasion of his home country, Ukraine.
Elnaz shares a story about her Mother who, against all odds, took a leap of faith when leaving Iran with her children, to find a new home in the UK.
Fleeing Singapore, from a life of transphobia, asylum seeker Yuna explores some of the moral complications which this journey to London has opened up.
Bradley, a university student who has left the comforts of his family home, figures out how to run a washing machine and what it really means to be self-sufficient.
Matty, who, with the distance of time, reflects on being made homeless at 15, and the subsequent years that followed

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