Original version

BBC Radio 4 FM

BBC Radio 4 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced BBC Home Service.

BBC Radio 4

Radio 4

Radio 4 (FM)

Book of the Week

Audiobooks

Factual

Serialised book readings, featuring works from various genres

Serialised book readings, featuring works of non-fiction, biography, autobiography, travel, diaries, essays, humour and history

BBC Radio 4 LW

Book of the Week: Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle: Episode 2

Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

Episode 2

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle, Episode 2

Textile artist Clare Hunter on the solace found in sewing for prisoners of war.

Textile artist and curator Clare Hunter is moved by the sewn stories created by POW's enduring the harshest of times. Siobhan Redmond is the reader.

Textile artist and curator, Clare Hunter continues her journey through the centuries and across the continents where she uncovers the lives of women and men who have used sewing and embroidery to tell their stories. Today, Clare discovers a quilt created in the harsh conditions of a Japanese POW camp during World War Two.  Comprising sixty-six embroidered squares, each one reveals its creator's unique story where resistance, remaining connected to  past lives and loves, and preserving a sense of self are poignantly memorialized in thread.

Read by Siobhan Redmond
Abridged by Julian Wilkinson
Produced by Elizabeth Allard

Book of the Week: Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Textile artist Clare Hunter's illuminating history of sewing and embroidery.

Textile artist Clare Hunter travels through the centuries uncovering the lives of those who have used sewing and embroidery to tell their stories. Read by Siobhan Redmond.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Book of the Week

Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

Episode 2

Genres

Brand

Series

BBC Radio 4 FM

About BBC Radio 4