BBC Witness History

Alistair Heather is not proud of some of his past interactions with women. The Scottish writer explores what more he and all men can do to help women feel safer in the world. Listen: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0015mgx

We're at the Black Sea coast on the last night of June. Everything is building up to the sunrise. This is Bulgaria’s ‘July Morning’ observance - somewhere between a counter-cultural musical festival, and a secular pilgrimage marking the start of July. It revolves around reaching the coast in time to meet July’s first sunrise. This celebration has an unlikely origin story - a 1971 song, also called July Morning, by English rock band Uriah Heep.

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With thanks to Kmetal Tsonko Tsonev, Alex Boreva, Katie Revell, Andrea Morán and Cicely Fell.

Producer: Carys Wall

Executive producer: Dave Howard

Sound designer: Jonathan Webb

A Bespoken Media Scotland Production

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After an incident of sexual assault, BBC Springwatch naturalist Lucy Lapwing tries to renew her love of being alone in nature. Listen here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00180d0 Produced by Jac Phillimore, with sound design by Joel Cox.

With little fanfare, Glasgow has transformed itself into Europe's largest producer of small satellites.

The city - historically a global shipbuilding hub - is now a centre of expertise for designing and building modular spacecraft that orbit the Earth, and supply services to customers around the world.

This growth places Glasgow at the heart of a wider space industry cluster. Nearby businesses are developing rockets, satellite components and data services, while launch sites are being built elsewhere in Scotland, in hopes of creating an end-to-end space sector.

Despite this success, some of the sector's leading figures say Glasgow's position is no longer secure, as governments across Europe increase their investment in space.

They warn that, without stronger backing, this success story of UK high-tech manufacturing could lose its competitive edge.

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Presenter: Shiona McCallum
Producer: Katie Revell
Executive producer: Carys Wall
Mix: Joel Cox

With thanks to Patrick Wallace

A Bespoken Media Scotland production for BBC Radio 4.

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