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The LifeLines Death Row Podcast is an exploration into some of the diverse stories and issues connected to death row and capital punishment in the United States. Each episode of this new series will focus on a different story relating to the U.S. death penalty, and will include interviews with those who have first hand knowledge of the system. LifeLines is a non-campaigning UK-based charity, which befriends and supports prisoners on Death Row in America through letter writing.

Go behind the scenes on the Covid wards of one of Britain's busiest hospitals, Bradford Royal Infirmary. 2020 will forever be remembered as the year of coronavirus, but it's easy to forget the shock, fear and confusion that pervaded Britain as the pandemic first hit. In this exceptional radio series, senior NHS doctor and epidemiologist Professor John Wright takes us back to those crucial early days, giving us a first-hand account of one hospital's fight against COVID-19 and providing an invaluable oral history of this unique historical moment.

When A Beauty That Hurts first appeared in 1995, Guatemala was one of the world’s most flagrant violators of human rights. An accord brokered by the United Nations brought a measure of peace after three decades of civil war, but the country’s troubles are far from over. W. George Lovell revisits Guatemala to grapple once again with the terror inflicted on its Maya peoples by a military-dominated state.