Detroit From Across The Pond

By: Andrew Lewis-Smith
  • Summary

  • Detroit is a city which has faced many challenges in its lifetime. Yet it has a rich and varied history including music, architecture and car manufacturing. However, it has also experienced industrial decline, environmental issues and profound racial inequality. This show takes a look at projects which are supporting and improving the lives of the people of Detroit and the inspiring people who drive these projects forward. Yet those people are human too and I am interested in how they have overcome personal challenges which have allowed them to keep going. What have they drawn on? Family? Faith? Community? Specific practices which have helped them? This is all done from my view in Britain 3500 miles but with my interest in this extraordinary and endlessly fascinating city.
    Copyright 2023 Andrew Lewis-Smith
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Episodes
  • Rescuing good quality, nutritious food and making sure that it gets to the people who need it with Darraugh Collins from Food Rescue - Detroit.
    Jun 11 2020

    Every day in many parts of the world, particularly in affluent countries, much good food is thrown away. At the same time there are many people and families who can't afford to buy enough, nutritious food. Food Rescue - US is a brilliant organisation which works across the United States in local communities to ensure that good food is not thrown away and goes to people and communities in need.

    In this conversation we look at Darraugh's own journey to starting a local Detroit Food Rescue group and also her move to live and work in Detroit. We discuss the concept of "food insecurity" and how Food Rescue links with local organisations to get the to food to where it is needed.

    Darraugh talks widely about her love of Detroit and the people who live there and highlights many of their qualities which give them a degree of resilience despite the many challenges faced by the city.

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    1 hr
  • Urban bee keeping and Detroit - a fascinating combination with Brian Peterson-Roest from Bees in the D
    Jun 19 2020

    In this show we take a fascinating tour of urban bees and bee keeping in Detroit. Learning about why bees work well and thrive in an urban environment with the not for profit Bees in The D and one of it's key figures Brian Peterson-Roest. He is an eductator, a bee keeper and someone who has a deep passion and love for and knowledge about bees. His charisma and love for bees, education and Detroit shine through in this episode.

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    54 mins
  • Satori Shakoor from The Secret Society of Twisted Storytellers, Detroit.
    Jun 25 2020

    How telling stories to a receptive audience can be healing and therapeutic experience both for the storyteller and the audience. A space is created of trust and receptivity in which people share their tales of a whole range of experiences. Satori is a master story teller and she shares her journey to coaching others in story telling and how telling her own stories proved deeply healing and transformative for her.

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    1 hr and 5 mins

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