Living with history in a pandemic

Trapped at home during the Covid 19 pandemic, EMMY award-winning filmmaker Martin Smith broadcast forty-three talks for Bristol’s community radio station.

In Matters of Life and Death: Living with History in a Pandemic the talks have become a book.

Tributes to the book have described Martin Smith as “a natural essayist… the discipline of a career in broadcasting have made him a storyteller of rare skill and insight. Politics, history, music, literature. sport, film-making, family… the cumulative impact is deep and lasting.”

Martin Smith, Filmmaker & Author