Friends of Haptic & Hue

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Friends of Haptic & Hue is a arts podcast hosted by Jo Andrews, with 45 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Jo Andrews hosts Friends of Haptic & Hue, a arts show with 45 episodes published.

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  Episode #36

  Travels with Textiles July 2026

  Jul 15, 202643 min

  Travels with Textiles takes us from a dusty roadside in rural China to the fibre secrets hidden in the ancient woodlands of Gloucestershire, in England. First, senior curator, Nancy Berliner, tells the story of how a discarded rag, glimpsed outside a Buddhist cave temple, set her on a lifelong path to become one of the world's great experts on Chinese patchwork. She explains how it has been made for over two thousand years and that its origins lie in Buddhist and Daoist beliefs. And she tells us how it passed over into everyday life and is still used by women in rural areas to make vivid, improvised bed covers, children's jackets and protective door coverings. Then we travel back tens of thousands of years to explore one of humanity's oldest crafts. Jo joins heritage educator, Sally Pointer, in the forest to learn how and why our ancestors transformed the inner bark of lime trees into cordage strong enough to hold together baskets, nets, and even Viking ships. It's a journey through scraps, string, and survival — proof that the smallest fragments of cloth and fibre can carry the biggest stories.

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  Episode #35

  Travels with Textiles June 2026

  Jun 17, 202642 min

  Clothes are never just clothes, even in times of conflict and war. They are memory, community and the quiet insistence that life goes on. People take pride in what they wear even in the most extreme circumstances. War can strip life down to its essentials – survival, shelter and safety – but what you wear still matters, partly because it may be one of the few things that you still control. In this month's Travels with Textiles, we explore what fashion means when it becomes an act of defiance and a declaration of identity. We start in the embattled Black Sea port of Odessa, where elderly residents still dress with elegance and wit, despite nightly missile attacks. And we travel to Belfast, to celebrate an extraordinary act of renewal. Fifty years ago, Northern Ireland's entire textile and fashion collection was firebombed in a shocking act of destruction. Find out how it has been rebuilt.

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  Episode #34

  Travels with Textiles May 2026

  May 20, 202644 min

  Mending our own clothes, or having it done professionally, is not a token act. It can have a powerful environmental and economic impact. Textile waste is one of the most pressing environmental problems the world faces. Every year we create 150 billion new garments, and every year we discard 92 million tonnes of textiles. The US alone throws away 17 million tonnes of textiles, most of which goes into landfill. The fashion and textile industry is one of the largest single contributors to climate change – accounting for 8-10% of global emissions. Many of us feel despair in the face of these figures – what can we do about it? But new research about the rise of alteration and mending shops in the UK, points to the beginnings of a culture change. The research tells us that nearly 40% of purchased clothing doesn't fit, but taking it to a local repair shop can make it wearable and much less likely to be discarded. If we mend our garments and extend their life by just nine months it can cut the cost to the environment, by 20-30%, and if we buy vintage or second hand, rather than new, it can be anything up to 70 times better for the environment. In this month's episode Lisa Macintyre, Associate Professor at Heriot Watt University, in Scotland, and one of the authors of the research, talks to us about the power of repair and alteration, and the impact it can have on reducing textile waste.

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  Episode #33

  Travels with Textiles April 2026

  Apr 15, 202639 min

  Knitting is one of the most popular textile crafts today and it's estimated that there are well over a hundred million active knitters globally. But where does it come from? When did knitting first appear and what do we know about how it spread around the world? This episode of Travels with Textiles is devoted to knitting and its history. We explore the origins of knitting and what we know about some of the earliest surviving pieces we have from North Africa. We travel to a small island in the North Atlantic that is home to some of the world's most iconic knitting and we hear about knitting traditions that grew up in America's Appalachia region as waves of different migrants arrived.

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  Episode #32

  Travels with Textiles March 2026

  Mar 18, 202646 min

  How do clothes change what we know about someone? This episode of Travels with Textiles takes a look at this in different ways. First, we talk to Eleanor Houghton about her extraordinary new book: Charlotte Bronte's Life Through Clothes which took her nine long years to complete. We may think we know the story of this famous Victorian author, but this book reveals a very different person. We then move forward in time to the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, between the First and Second World Wars, and try to unravel the meaning of the clothes worn by both the detectives and some of the characters in these well-loved stories. What is going on in this world of immense social upheaval where people are seeking re-assurance and comfort? And finally we are off to New Zealand to unpick some of the secrets of a high chief's war cloak – or pauku – which has just made the journey home from Britain.

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