Broadcast history

• Bowling for Love
• Brick by Brick
• Chaos and Creation
• City Messengers: Still Pedalling?
• Emerald Streams
• France's Forgotten Concentration Camps
• Freezing Fire, Singing Stone
• Ghost Town
• High Flight
• Islam, Mullahs and the Media
• Melting Point
• Musical Migrants II
• Public Places, Private Lives
• Public Places, Private Lives Times Square and Taj Mahal
• Something Understood: Building Bridges
• Something Understood: If Only You Could Bottle It
• Something Understood: Running
• Something Understood: Striving for Imperfection
• Something Understood: The Ascent
• Something Understood: The Currency Exchange
• Something Understood: The Singing Manifesto
• Song of the Scallop
• The Bicycle Diaries
• The Blackbird - The Life and Legacy of Delia Murphy
• The Music Tree
• Vienna and the Shadow of the Third Man
• What's Cooking: a portrait of the Kitchen Sisters
• Whatever Happened To The Working Class
• Written in Stone

BBC Radio 4

Something Understood: The Singing Manifesto

At some point in every interview recorded by American radio’s most celebrated production duo, the Kitchen Sisters, they ask the interviewee to sing – a favourite song, a lullaby, a tune laden with
memories.  Through their series such as ‘Lost and Found Sound’, ‘Hidden Kitchens’ and, now, ‘The Secret Life of Girls’, they’ve found that singing achieves an ‘accelerated intimacy’ that cuts to the heart of a person. In this special edition, recorded in San Francisco, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva step out from behind the microphone to reflect on how their distinctive approach starts with the voice and results in ‘composed radio’.

Press

"Glorious. 30 minutes of treasure from the Kitchen Sisters' archive..."
Steve Bowbrick, Speechification 13th January 2009