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Lights Out

Documentary adventures that encourage you to take a closer listen.

Radio 4,29 episodes

Episodes

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Series 6
Dust
How can our imagination help us hold the moment we live in?
20 Nov 2023,28 mins
Series 6
Four Walls
Documentary adventures that invite a closer listen.
13 Nov 2023,28 mins
Series 6
Crossings
Documentary adventures that invite a closer listen.
06 Nov 2023,28 mins
Series 6
Threads
Textile artist Lyn Barlow comes to terms with the reckless activism of her past.
30 Oct 2023,28 mins
Series 6
Lithified
Laura Grace Simpkins reflects on modern society's dependency on lithium.
23 Oct 2023,28 mins
Series 6
Dead Ends
The audio-maker Talia Augustidis reflects on how we choose to remember someone.
16 Oct 2023,28 mins
Series 5
Gatekeeper
Axel Kacoutié discovers a new sense of self in the cosmologies.
09 Jan 2023,28 mins
Series 5
County Lines
Four people recount their involvement with 'county lines' - selling drugs around the UK.
02 Jan 2023,28 mins,
Series 5
The Night Sky
Three activists in their 70s reflect on keeping going, hope and despair.
01 Jan 2023,28 mins
Series 5
Call Signs
Man, Mouse and a morse key: the story of a radio amateur in Kyiv as the Russians invade.
27 Dec 2022,28 mins
Series 5
Greenham Convictions
Protest and prison. Women who 'embraced the base' at RAF Greenham Common 40 years on.
19 Dec 2022,28 mins
Series 5
Accounts and Accountability
A dive into the ethics of buying and selling true stories.
12 Dec 2022,28 mins
Series 5
Introducing: Lights Out
Documentary adventures that encourage you to take a closer listen.
1 min
Series 4
Fallout
Documentary adventures that encourage you to take a closer listen.
06 Sep 2021,28 mins
Series 4
The Last Taboo
Documentary adventures that encourage you to take a closer listen.
13 Sep 2021,28 mins
Series 4
Kaleidoscope
Documentary adventures that encourage you to take a closer listen.
20 Sep 2021,28 mins
Series 4
A Service for Society
A political scandal, a dead dog and the struggle for gay rights in 1970s Britain.
27 Sep 2021,28 mins,
Series 3
From the Ashes of New Cross
Revisiting the night of the New Cross Fire in 1981 and its aftermath.
26 Oct 2020,28 mins,
Series 3
Silent Mothers
Documentary adventures that encourage you to take a closer listen.
02 Nov 2020,28 mins
Series 3
How Do You Sleep at Night?
Documentary adventures that encourage you to take a closer listen.
09 Nov 2020,28 mins
Series 2
The Outside World
Audio-makers reflect on the sonic worlds they want to inhabit in this moment in time.
20 Apr 2020,28 mins
Series 2
Prison Sentences
The things people say about prison.
13 Apr 2020,28 mins,
Series 2
Speaking Sabar
A griot family teaches the language of Sabar drumming in Senegal.
06 Apr 2020,28 mins
Series 2
Into This World
Documentary adventures that encourage you to take a closer listen.
30 Mar 2020,28 mins
Series 2
The Saigon Tapes
Ripples from an explosion in Saigon in 1966 are felt in the soul of a 17-yr-old in London.
23 Mar 2020,28 mins
Series 2
The Space Between Stories
Documentary adventures that encourage you to take a closer listen.
16 Mar 2020,28 mins
A Sense of Quietness
Documentary adventures that encourage you to take a closer listen.
26 Nov 2018,28 mins
Deep Time and the Sparrowhawk
A sound-led dive into deep time and ‘the long now'.
19 Nov 2018,28 mins
Big Tex
Documentary adventures that encourage you to take a closer listen.
12 Nov 2018,28 mins