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The Long Table

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  1. NewThu 16 Oct48 min

    What bakers know about patience

    Ilka Ferenczi has run a night bakery for thirty years. We talk sourdough, broken sleep and why the best loaves take two days.

  2. Thu 9 Oct52 min

    A night shift at the river port

    Crane drivers, a ship's cook and the woman who checks every container seal. What a port sounds like at three in the morning.

  3. Thu 2 Oct39 min

    Learning Portuguese at sixty

    Joaquim Teles moved back to his mother's village and found he had forgotten the language. A year of flashcards, market chats and one very patient neighbour.

  4. Thu 25 Sep44 min

    The town that rebuilt its cinema

    When the last screen closed, four hundred neighbours bought it back, one seat at a time.

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