Now Here
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<p>From a Liverpudlian pie shop reviving abandoned streets to a Welsh village reclaiming a radical past. From ‘citizen scientists’ exposing the slow death of the river Wye to activists resisting the loss of London’s queer spaces. Now Here tells stories of people fighting back.</p><p>These very different landscapes share common threads. At their heart is a question: how can we rethink our relationship with the land and each other? We cross the UK to find out how ordinary people are making a new kind of future. One that isn’t a distant utopia. One that’s here, now.</p>
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February 15, 2024
1. The Perfect Possession
<p>Over the years, Scottish islands have become collector items for the rich and famous. The Isle of Ulva has always been considered the perfect possession and it’s suffered more than most. Once home to 600 people, just five were left in 2015. Can this tiny community bring their almost-deserted island back to life?</p><p>In this episode, we meet those living on Ulva who tell us how they decided to buy back their island from its millionaire owner and run it themselves. Academic and land reform campaigner, Alastair McIntosh, shows us the links between Scotland’s violent history of dispossession and the most concentrated pattern of private land ownership in Europe today. </p><p>Writer, producer and presenter: May Robson Supervising Producer: Emily Esson Sound Designer: Steve Urquhart Theme Music: Contours Executive Producer: Elizabeth Clark Now Here is a BBC Scotland Production for BBC Sounds Audio Lab Commissioning Editor: Khaliq Meer</p>
February 15, 2024
4. The Ripple Effect
<p>Walking along the River Wye’s banks, it seems elegant and everlasting, but beneath the surface all is not well.</p><p>In this episode, we meet people living along the river who have trained as “citizen scientists” to monitor water pollution themselves. Braving muddy banks and wet feet every week, what drives them to protect a river that they say is dying?</p><p>Led by indigenous groups, a movement to recognise the natural world as alive and with rights is gaining momentum around the world. We speak to Mumta Ito, a lawyer for Nature’s Rights, about how the legal construction of nature as a dead thing - resources that humans can own and extract - goes hand-in-hand with our exploitative economic system today. </p><p>Do rivers really belong to us? How can the actions of a small group of determined people reframe our relationships with nature and one another?</p><p>Writer, producer and presenter: May Robson Supervising Producer: Emily Esson Sound Designer: Steve Urquhart Theme Music: Contours Executive Producer: Elizabeth Clark Now Here is a BBC Scotland Production for BBC Sounds Audio Lab Commissioning Editor: Khaliq Meer</p>
February 15, 2024
6. Building a Queer Utopia
<p>London markets itself as a world-class queer city. But the capital has lost 58% of its LGBTQ+ venues since 2006. Why are queer spaces disappearing so rapidly and what has been lost?</p><p>When legendary queer pub The Joiners Arms was shut down by developers in 2015, it didn’t go without a fight. In this episode, we meet people who are resisting the closure of queer spaces and imagining new ones of their own. </p><p>Olimpia Burchiellaro and Jon Ward discuss well-intentioned efforts to 'save' LGBTQ+ venues and the contradictions of 'inclusion' as cities are gentrified. We visit a new drag night, Lèse Majesté, and talk to an architectural collective to glimpse what community-owned queer spaces might actually look and feel like. </p><p>Writer, producer and presenter: May Robson Supervising Producer: Emily Esson Sound Design: Steve Urquhart Theme Music: Contours Executive Producer: Elizabeth Clark BBC Scotland Production for BBC Sounds Audio Lab Commissioning Editor: Khaliq Meer</p>
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- What is Now Here?
<p>From a Liverpudlian pie shop reviving abandoned streets to a Welsh village reclaiming a radical past. From ‘citizen scientists’ exposing the slow death of the river Wye to activists resisting the loss of London’s queer spaces. Now Here tells stories of people fighting back.</p><p>These very different landscapes share common threads. At their heart is a question: how can we rethink our relationship with the land and each other? We cross the UK to find out how ordinary people are making a new kind of future. One that isn’t a distant utopia. One that’s here, now.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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