Archive Hour
One former head of BBC Features department stated that the "destiny" of the radio feature was to "mirror the true inwardness of its subject".

In this edition of The Archive Hour, Alan Hall brings together, virtually, members of the international community of radio feature-makers to consider how the form evolved and to consider its particular qualities.

With Edwin Brys (Belgium), Berit Hedemann (Norway), Chris Brookes (Canada), Kaye Mortley (Paris-based Australian), Robyn Ravlich (Australia) and
Piers Plowright, Simon Elmes, Sarah Taylor and Mark Burman.

And extracts from:
Von Trapped by Natalie Kestecher (ABC)
Singing the Fishing by Charles Parker (BBC)
Setting Sail by Piers Plowright (BBC)
On Naxos by Kaye Mortley (ABC)
Map of the Sea by Chris Brookes (CBC)
Steel by DG Brideson (BBC)
Undergraduate Summer by Stephen Potter (BBC)
L'Italien de la Rue des Cloys by Fabrice Pinte (Radio France)
The Long March of Everyman (BBC)
Ian Gardiner's Monument by Alan Hall (BBC)
Cockroach by Harri Huhtamaki (YLE)
Lives in a Landscape: Terence by Sarah Taylor (BBC)
Everyday Something Disappears by Luc Haekens and Edwin Brys (VRT)
Ghetto Life 101 by David Isay (WBEZ Chicago)
Jason and the Thunderbirds by Mairi Russell (BBC)
The Park by Simon Elmes and Sara Parker (BBC)
The Brown Parcel by Kari Hesthamar (NRK)
Don't Hang Up by Mark Burman (BBC)

Music written and played by Thelonius Monk, Gerry Mulligan and the Keith Jarrett Trio, including This is My Story, This is My Song.

"...a guff-free hour, celebrating the sometimes magical thing that is the radio feature...an experimental, atmospheric and self-referential programme. "It certainly doesn't sound like an LBC phone-in" suggested feature maker Mark Burman. Precisely."
Elizabeth Mahoney, The Guardian 30.06.08