Life of Breath

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This series explores the research themes, events and activities of the Life of Breath project. Life of Breath is an research project exploring breathing and breathlessness at the interface of arts, humanities and medical practice. It is a collaboration between the Durham University and University of…

Life of Breath


    • Jun 17, 2020 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 21m AVG DURATION
    • 11 EPISODES


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    Breathing Race Into the Machine

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2020 25:15


    'When you press the button, you're actually making the idea of race and racial difference' Lundy Braun discusses how racism is literally built into the spirometer.

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    Breath in Classical Singing

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2019 23:19


    “Breath is the beginning and end of what we do as classical singers” Miranda Wright In this episode we turn...

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    Breath in Visual Art

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2018 20:25


    ‘Art changes human experience as it reorders our perceptions and engages our emotions’ (Starr, 2013) Artist Jayne Wilton has spent...

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    Breath, Pulse and Measure

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2018 26:37


    In his manifesto ‘Projective Verse’ (1950) the poet Charles Olson proposed a new view of poetic structure based on the...

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    Under The Surface

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2017 14:23


    Under the Surface is a choral piece composed by Toby Young which was specially commissioned for, and premiered at, the...

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    To Breathe Ourselves into Some Other Lungs

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2017 19:58


      A cappella singing, a lone rower in the Pacific Ocean, fungal spores, clairvoyance and a baby’s cries…what could possibly...

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    It Felt Like Drowning

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2017 22:40


      ‘It Felt Like Drowning’ is the winner of our recent Inspired musical composition competition. Entrants were invited to attend...

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    10 Years Smoke Free

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2017 14:17


      On 1st July 2007 England banned smoking in enclosed public places. Although contentious at the time it has gone...

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    Letter to your Breath

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2017 24:37


      If you were invited to write a letter to your breath, what would you say? Bristol anthropologist Alice Malpass...

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    Living with Breathlessness, Learning from Experience

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2017 23:40


    SUBSCRIBE: iTunes | Stitcher | Pocket Casts | RSS    Discover the work our researchers are doing to try and...

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    The invisibility of breathlessness: physiology, perceptions and politics

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2017 21:57


    Jane Macnaughton discusses why breathlessness is an invisible symptom, why the people who experience it can be invisible in society and how this is hampering the battle against lung disease.

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