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Home for Sale - Alison Inman

Hannah and Stephen meet up with a long-standing friend and colleague to discuss ways in which our concept of home is shaped by social, economic and political forces. W...

Wellbeing & Tenure - Dr James Gregory

Dr James Gregory joins Stephen and Hannah to discuss the concept of wellbeing and the relationship between wellbeing and housing tenure. Owner-occupiers, private tenan...

Hauntings, Horror and Home - Leila Taylor

Why do some buildings feel unnerving, unsettling or just somehow wrong? Is it the location, the design, the geometry, or are there other forces at work? Why are we spo...

Belonging & Difference - Richard Wilkinson

Richard was born to a single parent in Bradford in the 1950s, and experienced social housing for the first time when he moved into a council house on the newly built T...

What is Home?

In this introductory episode, we discuss the origins of Closer to Home, the core ideas behind the podcast, and a number of other things which are at least tangentially...

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Hannah and Stephen introduce Closer To Home, the podcast that asks the question: 'Are we dealing with a home crisis as much as we are a housing crisis?'

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