Welcome to Audio Adventures
Including new Brief Lives Podcasts
Enjoy over 50 podcasts: interviews, migrant stories, discussions and excerpts from past exhibitions.
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Podcast of the week
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Discover Czech Routes
with curator Nicola Baird and Judi HermanListen to curator Nicola Baird discuss Ben Uri exhibition Czech Routes with Judi Herman, a podcast for Jewish Renaissance magazine. Visit the exhibition here.
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Brief Lives
We are excited to introduce this new Audio Adventure, which is designed to share with you the lives of many great artists from our collection and make your morning or afternoon break special, with 5 minutes of engaging history from our curators.
We share the stories of Frank Auerbach, David Bomberg, Jacob Epstein, Jacob Kramer, Martin Bloch, Dora Holzhandler, Eva Frankfurther, Alfred Wolmark, Ludwig Meidner and our founder Lazar Berson.
This series partners and complements another new benuri.org initiative of more than forty 60-second Insight videos about important artists in our collection.
Enjoy our short 5 minute podcasts exploring artists in the Ben Uri Collection.
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Conversations About Art
David Glasser interviewed by distinguished American museum director, thinker and commentator Heidi Zuckerman. -
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Audio Adventures
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Kindertransport Chronicles I Harry Heber
Listen to an interview with Harry Heber as he discusses his memories of the Anschluss, fleeing Austria on the Kindertransport and settling in the UK.
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Kindertransport Chronicles II
Gerta Regensburger
Artist Gerta Regensburger discusses her escape to Belgium on the Kindertransport in 1939, eventually arriving in the UK later that year. Listen to her childhood memories and her reflections on her early career.
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Kindertransport Chronicles III Daisy Hoffner
Daisy Hoffner - Kindertransport child - reflects on her memories of leaving Germany before the war and her life afterwards.
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Richard Cork on Bomberg
David Bomberg was one of the great artists of the 20th century, 60 years on from the artist's death and as an exhibition of his work opened at the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, Richard Cork explains Bomberg's significance.
Presenter: Kirsty Lang.
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Wellbeing and Migration — a panel discussion
Art therapists and artists came together with members of the public to explore the role art can play in combating trauma, and the responsibilities of galleries like Ben Uri to help. Panel: Tania Kaczynski and Shan Rixon, art therapists and artist Cedoux Kadima. The event was chaired by Ed Dickenson, Wellbeing Officer at Ben Uri Gallery.
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A Jewish refugee from Germany - Ralph Blumenau
Ralph reflects on his memories of living in Germany during the Nazi uprising, travelling to the UK and his life afterwards.
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The journey of Artist and Afghan refugee Sayed Nas
Walking from Afghanistan at 17, crossing border in the dead of night, sleeping outdoors in extreme conditions and fearing for his very survival. Listen to Sayed's story.
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Dr Katie McGown on Grete Marks
A lecture by Dr Katie McGown, curator at the Sidney Cooper Gallery in Canterbury, on the work of Grete Marks, held at the Ben Uri Gallery as part of the Refugees: The Lives of Others exhibition.
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Art Out of the Bloodlands exhibition review
Artist Estelle Lovatt reviews Ben Uri's Out of the Bloodlands: A Century of Polish Artists to Britain on BBC Radio London.
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Artist Joanna Ciechanowska on growing up Jewish
Listen to Joanna talk about discovering her Jewish heritage, growing up in Poland in the 1950s and how, and why, she settled in the UK.
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Escaping persecution with artist Alicia Melamed Adams
Excerpts from an interview with Alicia Melamed Adams discussing her fascinating life story, how she escaped persecution during her childhood and teens, and her art career.
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Artist Maja Ngom reflects on her upbringing and its impact on her work
Excerpts from an interview with artist Maja Ngom. Learn about Maja's heritage and upbringing, how this has impacted the work she makes and her plans for the future.
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Dr Michael Spiro on his childhood before the war
Dr Michael Spiro reflects on his childhood in Germany before the war, how his family escaped to the UK and then New Zealand, and how he came to finally settle in London in 1960.
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Modern Day Immigrant: Barbara, a German UK Resident
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Argula Rublack on her German and British Heritage
Argula reflects on her childhood, growing up in Germany with a British mother and German father. Listen in as she considers her identity and how she found herself living in the UK.
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Bulldozer Exhibition,Moscow, 1974
Listen to a lecture by Dr Nicky Kozicharow, on the Bulldozer exhibition, an unofficial art exhibition by avant-garde artists from Moscow and Leningrad on September 15, 1974. The show was broken-up forcefully by a large police presence using bulldozers and water cannons.
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Ben Uri and International Women's Day 2017
Women from University of the Third Age, and school girls from Acland Burghley Secondary in conversation, as part of the International Women's Day celebrations at the Ben Uri Gallery.
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See the Sabbath from Samuel Hirszenberg's eyes
Sabbath Rest by Samuel Hirszenberg discussed. Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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Lazar Berson Circular Design for Ben Uri Art Society — Ben Uri Beginnings
Discover and enjoy the work of Lazar Benson Ben Uri founder. Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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A Short History of the Jewish Community in Britain
Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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Solomon Hart — Portrait of Queen Victoria
Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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Lily Delissa Joseph — Self-Portrait with Candles
Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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Conflict and Modernism
A short introduction to the rise of modern art and the Jewish story. Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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Mark Gertler — Rabbi and Rabbitzin
Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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Isaac Rosenberg — Self-Portrait in Steel Helmet
Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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Explore Jacob Kramer's Day of Atonement
Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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Mark Gertler — Merry-Go-Round
Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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Ben Uri's beloved David Bomberg's Ghetto Theatre
Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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Clare Winsten — Portrait of Joseph Leftwich
Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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Take a trip down Lesser Ury's Berlin Street Scene
Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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Arthur Segal —La Ciotat and Martin Bloch — Svendborg Harbour
Get a closer understanding of this image courtesy of our curators. Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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Explore the Iconic Image that is Josef Herman's Refugees
Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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Ernst Eisenmeyer — Internment in Douglas and Alfred Lomnitz — Girl Behind Barbed Wire
Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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Leon Kossoff — Portrait of N. M. Seedo
Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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Eva Frankfurther -West Indian Waitresses
Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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The Shooting of George Wallace by Michael Rothenstein
Part of an audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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Frank Auerbach — Mornington Crescent, Summer Morning II
Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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Chaïm Soutine — La Soubrette
Tune in to a discussion on Chaïm Soutine's La Soubrette. Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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Discussions on Marc Chagall's Apocalypse en Lilas, Capriccio
Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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An Insight into Arnold Daghani's Caricature of Hitler
Learn more about this bold piece by Arnold Daghani. Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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Max Liebermann — Self Portrait
Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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Ludwig Meidner — Portrait of a Girl
Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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The Image of the Crucifixion
Discover the unexpected image of the crucifixion and its role in Jewish Art. Listen as Ben Uri curators guide you through this bold painting by famous Jewish Artist Emmanuel Levy. Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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Shmuel Dresner — The Ghost Town
Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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The Acquisition of Chaïm Soutine's La Soubrette by Ben Uri
Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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The Acquisition of Marc Chagall's Apocalypse en Lilas, Capriccio by Ben Uri
Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary.
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Listen to Charlie Patterson's 7 fast observations on Art Therapy
Charlie Patterson, a 2nd year trainee Art Therapist at Roehampton University, spent her placement at Netherwood Dementia Centre in Kilburn from September 2016 to June 2017 working in partnership with Ben Uri Gallery & Museum as part of the Picturing Memories programme.
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New Media
Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary Exhibition at Somerset House, London.
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Looking to the Future
What comes next for Ben Uri? Listen to find out. Part of the audio guide produced for Ben Uri Gallery 2015 Centenary Exhibition at Somerset House, London.
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