Stay Home Stories: Recent Episodes

Stay Home Stories

A series of podcasts exploring how COVID- 19 has changed our relationship to home.

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This podcast explores how 'stay home' policies and their impacts on diverse communities have been represented in journalism and political debate. Eithne Nightingale talks to Barnie Choudhury, Dan Jackson and Annabelle Wilkins about how diverse communities were portrayed within political discussion and media coverage of COVID-19 and the potential for journalism to contribute to pandemic recovery. This is the fifth podcast exploring how the pandemic has changed our relationship to home, and is part of the project 'Stay Home – rethinking the domestic during the COVID-19 pandemic', funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the UK Research and Innovation rapid response to COVID-19.

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Listen to the voices, sounds and experiences of people with disabilities during the pandemic as captured in the work of autistic, sound artist Calum Perrin.

Eithne Nightingale, a researcher at Queen Mary University of London, talks to Calum about how his interest in home was intensified during lockdown. Calum works across visual art, theatre, music and radio, exploring themes of disability, sensory experience and domesticity.

This is the fourth podcast exploring how the pandemic has changed our relationship to home, a research project involving museums and universities in London and Liverpool.

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This is the third podcast for Stay Home Stories exploring how the pandemic has changed our relationship to home, a research project involving museums and universities in London and Liverpool.

This third podcast draws on the experiences of community life based on interviews with migrants, refugees and people from diverse cultural backgrounds. It focusses on connections with the local area, mutual aid and the work of community organisations in supporting people through the pandemic. Eithne Nightingale talks to Kathy Burrell, Annabelle Wilkins and Julie Begum.

Stay Home – rethinking the domestic during the COVID-19 pandemic is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the UK Research and Innovation rapid response to COVID-19.

With thanks to all contributors and to Jonty Lovell for the soundtrack Blip, a recurring sound he created to reflect the monotony of lockdown life, but also to instil a sense of optimism that things will get better. Follow him on Instagram  j.lovemusic.

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“I’m talking into your living room from my living room.” Religious belief and practice at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This is the second podcast exploring how the pandemic has changed our relationship to home, a research project involving museums and universities in London and Liverpool.

This podcast looks at the impact of COVID-19 on religious practices. It explores how people of different faiths responded to the ‘Stay Home’ directive, how they sustained and adapted religious practices during lockdown and the challenges faced by faith leaders in relation to pastoral care.

Eithne Nightingale from Queen Mary University of London talks to Miri Lawrence, Alastair Owens and David Geiringer also from Queen Mary University of London.

Stay Home – rethinking the domestic during the COVID-19 pandemic is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the UK Research and Innovation rapid response to COVID-19.

With thanks to all contributors of different faiths and to Jonty Lovell for the soundtrack Blip, a recurring sound he created to reflect the monotony of lockdown life, but also to instil a sense of optimism that things will get better. Follow him on Instagram @j.lovemusic

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Listen to compelling voices about staying home during the pandemic from the Museum of the Home’s Stay Home collection – from how living rooms have been converted into workspaces, schools and gyms to how neighbours have supported each other through illness from COVID-19. This is the first podcast in a series of 8 exploring how the pandemic has changed our relationship to home, a research project involving museums and universities in London and Liverpool.

Eithne Nightingale, a researcher at Queen Mary University of London, talks to Danielle Patten and Veronique Belinga from the Museum.

If you would like to contribute to the Museum of the Home’s Stay Home Collection go to StayHomeStories.co.uk or to museumofthehome.org.uk

Stay Home – rethinking the domestic during the COVID-19 pandemic is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the UK Research and Innovation rapid response to COVID-19.

With thanks to all contributors and to Jonty Lovell for the soundtrack Blip, a recurring sound he created to reflect the monotony of lockdown life, but also to instil a sense of optimism that things will get better. Follow him on Instagram  j.lovemusic.