Talking grief and loss over ice-cream,    BBC R4
Vishva Samani Vishva Samani

Talking grief and loss over ice-cream, BBC R4

You might not consider a major music festival as the ideal place to discuss grief and loss – but that’s exactly what artist Annie Nicholson is doing. She’s touring the UK throughout summer 2021 in a brightly-coloured ice-cream van encouraging people to talk about the psychological impact of the pandemic in less formal spaces. I recorded with her for BBC Radio 4 at the Latitude festival in Suffolk.

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Caged & Chained, The Guardian
Vishva Samani Vishva Samani

Caged & Chained, The Guardian

This powerful film, filmed and directed by Simon Rawles and produced by myself, shows mentally ill people shackled in cages by their families in the Philippines. We were shocked to find one man who had been trapped by his family for 16 years. This film was a Rory Peck Award Finalist.

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