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A decade after his father passed away, Wajid Yaseen was aching to hear his voice again. But finding an old cassette tape of his dad singing opened up way more than Wajid expected. He had stumbled across a treasure trove of audio cassette tape letters spanning continents and lifetimes, chronicling overlooked South Asian migrant histories in Britain. This inspired him to create the Tape Letters Project, chasing down hundreds of cassette tapes and audio love letters containing the stories of families and lovers separated across oceans. In the process, he learnt a lot more about himself and his own heritage too.

Natalia Bolivar, who recently died at the age of 89, was not your typical revolutionary. A rich socialite who grew up in 1950s in Cuba, she was also an undercover urban guerilla using her privileged status to bring down the government, run by Fulgencio Batista – a military dictator clinging onto power in an unstable country. Inevitably, this meant she was also trying to bring down her own social class. Jane Chambers went to meet her in 2019.

Presenter: Mobeen Azhar
Producer: Taqwa Sadiq

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(Photo: Wajid Yaseen as a little boy with his father. Credit: Halima Jabeen)