Thrift

Breaking up is hard to do in relationships but also breaking up with your job. Dr Tessa West is a social psychology professor at New York University who says our relationships with our careers and jobs can be a lot like relationships with people and sometimes it's best to break u ... Show More

DOC has updated its list of environmental weeds. 

Anna Rankin looks at two books: Dougal McNeill's Forms of Freedom, Marxist essays in New Zealand and Australia literature and Mary McCarthy's Vietnam. 

<p>Kim Chakanetsa meets two women looking after remarkable historical objects and artworks. Kristiane Strætkvern is a Norwegian conservator with the National Museum of Denmark. She’s specialised in the preservation of waterlogged archaeological wooden objects and has worked on ... Show More

Catherine is on a rec near Norwich where she meets a woman who has a new reason to hope, after a lot of loss. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

Catherine speaks to strangers in Belfast about love and relationships Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

Kirsty Young asks fascinating people what advice they would give their younger self. 

Joshua Leo and Liz Waid look at a group of Peruvian women - weavers who make cloth. They are using their skills to make their lives better. https://spotlightenglish.com/uncategorized/making-cloth-to-build-community/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/spotlightenglish ... Show More

<p>Kim Chakanetsa meets two women who are breathing new life into the ancient practice of taxidermy, the process of preserving animal skin with fur and feather. </p><p>Polly Morgan is an award-winning British sculptor who uses taxidermy to make works of art. Her work has been sol ... Show More

Stained glass, friends who listen, late-in-life-love, and mother-daughter closeness 

A woman shares how she went from being unhoused to getting her own place. She also educates Geth on day to day life as an unhoused person and how it changed her political views. 

Clare Balding meets Phoebe Smith, an expert in planning long walks and bagging bothies.