Best BBC Radio Solent Podcasts (2025)

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The Farrow Family On BBC Radio Solent

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Nathan and Samuel appeared on BBC Radio Solent whilst they were on their short pre-mission trip to PNGBy Nathan and Samuel Farrow

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Doctor Dolittle and the Exploding Trout 28:17

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It's the glorious summer of 1966 and Hollywood has taken over England’s prettiest village. The residents of Castle Combe have made way for the cast and crew of the biggest budget musical of the decade- Doctor Dolittle. Where sheep once grazed there are two-headed llamas, talking macaws, singing chimps and enormous catering trucks. Propping up the b…

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To The Disciples Again

6d ago

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Message 10, When Jesus Appears, John 21:1-14By Chris Brockway

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A Map of the Moon 29:36

12d ago29:36

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When you look at the moon, what do you see? Producer and artist Siddharth Khajuria encounters competing human imaginations for the moon. Starting with some of the earliest lunar maps, he works with moonlight to illuminate thornier questions about our own behaviour on earth. What motivates the desire to etch a name into the landscape? The humanity w…

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To Thomas

13d ago

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Message 09, When Jesus Appears, John 20:24-31By Laurence Bennett

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I The Lord of Sea And Sky

18d ago

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Message from Songs Of Praise, May 2025By Judith Cochrane

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The Organ Symphony 29:18

19d ago29:18

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An extraordinary one-off symphony brings to life the stories of five people and their relationship with one of their vital organs. Like a symphony orchestra, our organs work in harmony to execute the movement that is human life. We don’t often think about our relationship to these internal cogs that keep us alive. For most people, the connection re…

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To The Disciples

20d ago

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Message 08, When Jesus Appears, John 20:19-23By Chris Brockway

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Mum in a Box 29:02

26d ago29:02

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As their 30th birthday approaches, Saba Husain (they/them) receives an unexpected and life changing box. It contains ‘the life’ of their mum; never before seen diaries, love letters, poems, photos of a person who died when Saba was born, 29 years earlier. With no note or message, it must have been sent by Saba’s father - but why now? Why not before…

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To Mary

27d ago

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Message 07, When Jesus Appears, John 20:11-18By Kay Boulton

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To Peter and John

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Message 06, When Jesus Appears, John 20:1-10By Chris Brockway

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To Peter and Judas

1M ago

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Message 05, When Jesus Appears, John 13:1-38By Dave Edwins

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Robben Island’s Hallelujah 29:09

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In his memoir of surviving the brutal apartheid prison Robben Island, South African activist Sedick Isaacs recalls an extraordinary event about which little has been recorded - "the creation and training of the eighty-member choir [of political prisoners] for the production of Handel’s ‘Hallelujah Chorus'. The incongruous beauty of the choir’s perf…

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The Big Ask 28:54

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How many questions have you asked today? How many were rhetorical, “boomer-asking”, passive/aggressive or just boringly functional? Did you know that our appetites for question-asking peak at the age of five, then steadily diminish? That kids ask an average of 40,000 questions between the ages of 2 and 5, while adults ask fewer than ten questions a…

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To The Crowds

1M ago

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Message 04, When Jesus Appears, John 12:12-19By Graham Stevens

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Nobody to Call 28:34

2M ago28:34

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If a person dies without friends or relatives, the authorities can instigate a 'public health funeral'.Once called pauper's funerals - the services are referred to on the administrative form with a poignant phrase: "Nobody to Call." These funerals often see online appeals for mourners to attend. And when the BBC's Kevin Core spots a particularly mo…

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To The Jews

2M ago

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Message 03, When Jesus Appears, John 12:37-50By Kay Boulton

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To The Greeks

2M ago

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Message 02, When Jesus Appears, John 12:20-36By Chris Brockway

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A Georgian Polyphonic Feast 28:47

2M ago28:47

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Welcome to the feast! We’re invited to a traditional Georgian ‘Supra’ to immerse ourselves in the magic of Georgian polyphonic singing. The table groans with food, the wine flows, and the singing fills the heart. Led by toastmaster Levan Bitarovi, diners are guided through a narrative, weaving together their personal and collective experiences, thr…

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To Mary, Martha And Lazarus

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Message 01, When Jesus Appears, John 12:1-11By Duncan Ridgeon

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The Story of Solent City 29:08

2M ago29:08

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Author Owen Hatherley goes in search of the lost future of Solent City – the extraordinary plan, devised in the mid-1960s at the height of the post-war modernisation of Britain, to join the historic city-ports of Southampton and Portsmouth with a vast, Los-Angeles style grid. The plan was finally rejected, but why? - and what were the consequences …

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Malachi: Healing Love

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Message 05, Come Back: The Minor Prophets, Malachi 1-4By Chris Brockway

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Night Bus 28:38

2M ago28:38

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Ian Burke was not someone who grew up riding buses. His school was in walking distance, his parents had a car. But one night in his 20s, he had a dream which began a love affair with bus travel. Any spare moment is now spent exploring undiscovered routes or revisiting old favourites. “It’s about the journey, the out-of-the-way, the overheard snippe…

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Habakkuk: Hope-Giving Love

3M ago

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Message 04, Come Back: The Minor Prophets, Habakkuk 1-3By Jeannie Kendall

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The Endemic Truth 29:24

3M ago29:24

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Estimates from NSPCC suggest around 1 in 20 children in the UK have been sexually abused. This documentary brings together survivors whose experiences span different backgrounds, relationships and generations - challenging misconceptions that abuse only happens in certain communities. Through intimate conversations with Laura, Bryony, Joe, and Chri…

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Amos: Unpopular Love

3M ago

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Message 03, Come Back: The Minor Prophets, Amos 1-9By Chris Brockway

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Thirty Eulogies 29:03

3M ago29:03

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The story of how a heterosexual, Indian immigrant to England, ignorant of the gay scene, ended up delivering heartfelt eulogies to 30 homosexual men at the height of the AIDS crisis. The experiences of Suresh Vaghela take us behind the headlines of the infected blood scandal and into a transformative relationship between a hemophiliac and the peopl…

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Joel: Redeeming Love

3M ago

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Message 02, Come Back: The Minor Prophets, Joel 1-3By Kay Boulton

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Hosea: Scandalous Love

3M ago

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Message 01, Come Back: The Minor Prophets, Hosea 1-14By Clive Burnard

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Bellboy 28:23

3M ago28:23

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The 2001 Foot and Mouth crisis forced North Devon farmers into a traumatic 6 month lockdown, cut off from their neighbours and living with the death and destruction of their animals. When restrictions were finally eased, the ringing of church bells signalled the end of the lockdown, bringing communities back together. For artist and farmer Marcus V…

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Strong Faith

3M ago

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Message 04, Uncharted Territory, Hebrews 11:32-40By Chris Brockway

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Scattering 29:06

4M ago29:06

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Over 80% of people in Britain choose to be cremated rather than buried after death and the scattering of a loved one's ashes is a ritual that's increasingly familiar to many of us. In a lyrical and bittersweet meditation on grief and memory, writer and producer Tim Dee reflects on a West Country road trip to scatter his father’s mortal remains in p…

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Persevering Faith

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Message 03, Uncharted Territory, Hebrews 11:24-29By Zac Whitehouse

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The Memory Catcher 28:45

4M ago28:45

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Memory is fragile. We are driven to capture it. But is this possible when the memories of the person we love have fragmented? Julian’s mother has no memory. Both her long and short term memory were destroyed by different viruses. His mother still has an emotional memory of Julian. She recognises him - his personality, his manner. But she doesn’t kn…

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Obedient Faith

4M ago

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Message 02, Uncharted Territory, Hebrews 11:8-12By Chris Brockway

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Anger and Us 29:12

4M ago29:12

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Siblings Sam and Bon Stone are angry. Sam directs her anger inwards while Bon’s anger can be explosive. Through sharing parts of their lives with each other for the first time, they explore how we process anger and whether we can change it. With contributions from Noel Oganyan of Forrest Flowers (recorded at the New Cross Inn, London in November 20…

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Unseen Faith

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Message 01, Uncharted Territory, Hebrews 11:1-3By Kay Boulton

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In Pieces 29:24

4M ago29:24

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For some, burnout feels like an unravelling - a slow, creeping dissolution where the threads of your life and identity loosen and fray until you are completely undone. For others, it’s a breaking point - a sharp, sudden, collapse where everything shatters all at once. It doesn’t just kill physical vitality it also guts the entire internal mechanism…

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Standing Strong In Peru

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Message 02, Stand Strong, 1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26By Dave and Michelle Mahon

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One Hundred Ways of Listening 28:34

5M ago28:34

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Distracted, privatised, enchanted - do you ever think about how you listen? For the last 20 years, sound anthropologist Dr Tom Rice has been collecting different ways of listening from the world’s leading sound experts. He’s gathered more than 100 – some of these may be quite familiar, others will definitely surprise you. We are at a critical momen…

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Stand Strong

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Message 01, Stand Strong, 1 Corinthians 16:13-14By Chris Brockway

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My Night With Tracy - How the Darwin Cyclone Made a Man of Mike Thomson 29:31

5M ago29:31

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What drives us? What makes us who we are? For one of the BBC’s most experienced foreign correspondents, the multi-award-winning Mike Thomson, it was a near-death experience in Australia’s worst natural disaster this century. Having been kicked out of school at 17 for refusing to cut his hair, Mike opts to go travelling. With an older family friend,…

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Humility Experienced

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Message 04, Embracing Humility, Philippians 2:12-18, Luke 2:25-40By Graham Stevens

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The Shipping Forecast: A Haven 28:48

5M ago28:48

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It's the most intimate moment of the Radio 4 schedule: The late-night Shipping Forecast, a prelude to the close-down of the station, read every night at 00:48. But who is really listening along, and why? Guided by Radio 4 Announcer Al Ryan, we'll cross the world to meet the people who find comfort in this unique broadcast for a variety of reasons. …

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Ceefax Strikes Back... with Count Binface 29:05

5M ago29:05

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Ceefax has just reached its 50th birthday, and to celebrate this unique golden anniversary, the BBC's once-mighty teletext news service is receiving the greatest gift of all - the gift of life, courtesy of the greatest novelty politician in the omniverse, Count Binface. For eight years, Binface has pledged in his election manifestos to bring back C…

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The Horse at the Door 29:17

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Every year's end, as the days shorten and the nights grow darker, you might be fortunate enough to hear a distinctive knock at your door. Upon opening it, you'll be met with a group of Guisers - men in disguise - here to perform their mystery play, part of the ancient Mumming tradition. There's the Enterer In, Saint George, The Prince of Paradise, …

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Stockport: Britain's Karaoke Town 29:23

5M ago29:23

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The best stories have a certain WTF factor.. a weird little fact that draws you in…something you can’t ignore because it’s so contrary to what you previously thought. So it was for Geoff Lloyd when he heard that the story that Karaoke was invented in Stockport, by a charismatic shopkeeper called Roy Brooke who claimed the Japanese adopted his disco…

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Humility Exalted

5M ago

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Message 03, Embracing Humility, Philippians 2:9-11, Luke 1:50-55By Kay Boulton

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Humility Exemplified

6M ago

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Message 02, Embracing Humility, Philippians 2:5-8, Luke 1:39-45By Dave Edwins

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Voices from the Bog 29:12

6M ago29:12

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For 2000 years beneath layer upon layer of peat, the remains of two bodies - a man and a woman - lay buried in the earth. Within 12 months of each other, they were discovered on Lindow Moss, the cut-over peat bog in Cheshire. It's now 40 years since the remains of Lindow Man were found, the best-preserved bog body ever discovered in the UK. A year …

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