This is the third podcast for Stay Home Stories exploring how the pandemic has changed our relationship to home, a research project involving museums and universities in London and Liverpool. 

This third podcast draws on the experiences of community life based on interviews with migrants, refugees and people from diverse cultural backgrounds. It focusses on connections with the local area, mutual aid and the work of community organisations in supporting people through the pandemic. Eithne Nightingale talks to Kathy Burrell, Annabelle Wilkins and Julie Begum. 

Stay Home – rethinking the domestic during the COVID-19 pandemic is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the UK Research and Innovation rapid response to COVID-19.

With thanks to all contributors and to Jonty Lovell for the soundtrack Blip, a recurring sound he created to reflect the monotony of lockdown life, but also to instil a sense of optimism that things will get better. Follow him on Instagram  j.lovemusic.

You can download a full transcript of the podcast here.

Image from A Corona Story, a film by Diwas Bisht based on a UKRI funded research project by the Swadhinata Trust and King's College London - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DleLXzqS3M4