Show Notes
This episode is an exploration of relics. Objects, memories and ideas that exist past their intended end, they hold a significance whether we like it or not. Relics have a life of their own, some we search for, others finding us. One way or another, they hold power.
- Kareem Rahma, the host of New York City’s underground talkshow ‘Subway Takes’ opens up about the time he 'threw away a museum'
- Kala, an archaeology student, tells us about digging.
- Razza waxes lyrical about why he makes time to speak to the older generations.
- The first black musician to win the BBC Young Musician Award since its launch in 1978, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, talks to us about his cello
- 'Tat Vision', a self proclaimed plastic addict tells us about how his love of plastic triumphs his environmental responsibilities.
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