Brief Encounters
A series of short features transporting listeners into cinemas located around the world, eavesdropping on their stories, their characters and occasionally trying the snacks
Brief Encounters - Episode 1
Matthew Sweet transports listeners into cinemas around the world with a series of short features, eavesdropping on stories, and occasionally trying snacks. He begins with Lebanon.
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Brief Encounters - Episode 10
Matthew Sweet transports listeners into cinemas around the world. In this programme, he visits the Bey-oh-loo Cinema, hidden inside a genteel-looking shopping arcade in Istanbul.
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Brief Encounters - Episode 11
Matthew Sweet transports listeners into cinemas around the world. In this programme, he is at the Rustaveli cinema in Georgia.
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Brief Encounters - Episode 12
Matthew Sweet transports listeners into cinemas around the world. In this programme, he is in the Carib cinema in Kingston, Jamaica.
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Brief Encounters - Episode 13
Matthew Sweet transports listeners into cinemas around the world. In this programme, he is in the Yara cinema in the centre of Havana.
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Brief Encounters - Episode 14
Matthew Sweet transports listeners into cinemas around the world with a series of short features. In this programme, the story of the Ritz Cinema in Sydney, Australia.
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Brief Encounters - Episode 2
Matthew Sweet transports listeners into cinemas around the world with a series of short features, eavesdropping on their stories. Matthew joins a cinema queue in Bollywood.
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Brief Encounters - Episode 3
Matthew Sweet transports listeners into cinemas around the world with a series of short features, eavesdropping on the stories and characters - today Thailand.
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Brief Encounters - Episode 4
Tales from cinemas across the world. Matthew Sweet transports listeners to Srinagar where he tells the story of the last cinema in Kashmir.
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Brief Encounters - Episode 5
Matthew Sweet transports listeners into cinemas around the world with a series of short features, eavesdropping on the stories and the characters. Matthew visits a cinema in Ghana.
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Brief Encounters - Episode 6
Matthew Sweet transports listeners into cinemas around the world. In this programme, he is in the Vester Vov Vov cinema in Copenhagen.
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Brief Encounters - Episode 7
Matthew Sweet transports listeners into cinemas around the world with a series of short features. Matthew attends the reopening of the cinemas in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Brief Encounters - Episode 8
Matthew Sweet transports listeners into cinemas around the world with a series of short features, eavesdropping on the stories and characters. Matthew visits a cinema in China.
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Brief Encounters - Episode 9
Matthew Sweet transports listeners into cinemas around the world with a series of short features. He visits a cinema in Tangiers, Morocco.
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