Jac Phillimore
jacphillimore.bsky.social
Jac Phillimore
@jacphillimore.bsky.social
Freelancing in Edinburgh making radio and podcasts. Love understanding people's lives, shifting skies, cheese.
@BBCRadio4, @BBCRadioScot, @BBCWorldService
"When I tell you what went down, it will burn off both your ears". A story of basketball, the fall of the Soviet Union,
@gratefuldead.bsky.social, a nascent Lithuania and the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, presented by the late Bill Walton.
Ep1 on podcast players or on BBC Sounds:https://bbc.in/3H2BtIO
May 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
How it feels to be a woman out in nature... "After a frightening incident of sexual assault while birdwatching, naturalist @lucylapwing.bsky.social visits 4 women to try to renew her passion for being alone in nature - bbc.in/3LZDzG4 (made in 2022 but still feels bang on the money to me)
BBC Radio 4 - Clipped Wings
After a sexual assault, birder Lucy Lapwing works to renew her love of solitude in nature.
bbc.in
May 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
As someone who loves rummaging in skips, here's my look at how we sift and sort through the past to salvage value, from shipwrecks and bookshops, to code and the debris of conflict - bit.ly/3LjzJeg
BBC Radio 4 - The Digital Human, Series 28, Salvage
Aleks Krotoksi examines how we salvage value from legacy systems, structures and objects.
bit.ly
May 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Are economic sanctions an effective tool of statecraft? Strap in. This is a rollercoaster ride through their use over the past 100 years in my @BBCRadio4 doc The Cost of Economic War (from 2022) with @DuncanWeldon and guests @dandrezner, @reziemba, @nat_tilahun, @DrEricaMoret - bbc.in/3zqsqda
BBC Radio 4 - The Cost of Economic War
Duncan Weldon examines the use of economic sanctions as a tool of statecraft.
bbc.in
May 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Dropping Monday 19th! A podcast I made for BBC World Service with @bespoken.bsky.social about the fall of the Soviet Union, the Grateful Dead and some amazing Lithuanian basketballers at Barcelona 1992 Olympics. Presented by the late Bill Walton.
podcastingtoday.co.uk/rock-music-s...
Rock music, sport and Cold War collide in Amazing Sport Stories podcast
The latest Amazing Sport Stories podcast tells the true story of how the Lithuanian basketball team made it to the 1992 Olympics with help from the US rock band, the Grateful Dead.
podcastingtoday.co.uk
May 12, 2025 at 10:58 AM