This episode is an exploration of relics. Objects, memories and ideas that exist past their intended end, they hold a significance whether we like it or not. Relics have a life of their own, some we search for, others finding us.  One way or another, they hold power. 

- Kareem Rahma, the host of New York City’s underground talkshow ‘Subway Takes’ opens up about the time he 'threw away a museum'

- Kala, an archaeology student, tells us about digging.

- Razza waxes lyrical about why he makes time to speak to the older generations.

- The first black musician to win the BBC Young Musician Award since its launch in 1978, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, talks to us about his cello

- 'Tat Vision', a self proclaimed plastic addict tells us about how his love of plastic triumphs his environmental responsibilities.

The act of pretending can be detrimental and create harm to ourselves and those around us, other times it can be a coping mechanism and a necessary tool to protect ourselves, those close to us and the relationships we wish to maintain. Today’s episode is a collection of stories and observations about... pretending!

• Albert tells us about a weekly predicament of pretending which has become essential to his family's unity. 
• Akin, who is not a fan of spicy chicken wings, tells us about how he compensated for racial stereotypes through other means.
• Sick and tired of queerbaiting, Zooey exclaims his public service announcement; ‘We’re pulling up the drawbridge.’
• A student in Manchester, India, is fearful of nonchalance; the social epidemic which is plaguing our young people.

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Men at work have been romanticised and documented in art, music and literature for millennia, it's about time we feature some of them in a podcast!

This episode is about moments which have provoked the primal instincts reminding us that we are in fact alive. Everyone listening to this podcast is alive, however what that means is entirely different for each and every one of us- it’s a spectrum. 

From birth, our bodies are initiated into a complex web of politics, sexuality, hierarchies and trends. 

Today, we feature stories about people’s relationships with their form. People can have ever changing relationships with their bodies, some want to be seen while others are simply wanting to be ignored. 

Life sometimes throws us circumstances beyond our control, we can’t change the fact that these circumstances exist, but we can have a say in what comes next, and how we approach what we’ve been confronted with. This is an episode about moments in life where the fabric of what we know to be reality is torn, and we are found in a new situation for which we have no prior training.

Home can be the house you grew up in. The country you were born in. It can be a person, a feeling, or an unidentifiable sense of safety. Sometimes people leave home because it isn’t safe, sometimes they leave to become who they are supposed to be, and sometimes the decision to leave is made for them. The search for safety, or the decision to leave it behind is something that joins all of today's stories.

To be or not to be a parent...That is the question - which everyone in today’s episode has asked themselves. 

A View From A Bridge is an audio-first storytelling podcast. Each episode is thematically curated and brings together a handful of different voices, or 'views' recorded outdoors on bridges across the world. Known to millions on Instagram for its powerful short films with the project’s iconic red telephone, the podcast dives deeper into these profound human stories, featuring extended and carefully curated conversations from famous voices to strangers passing by who have decided to pick up the phone. A View From A Bridge is produced and hosted by Joe Bloom.