Four Thought

Sarah Thomas de Benitez says our image of childhood has skewed our attitude towards street children and it's time to listen to them.

"We listened, learned and found that the most important thing for each child was not 'where' they were but 'who' was there for them."

Producer: Sheila Cook.

Tommy Whitelaw, who was his late mother's carer, calls for more support and respect for people living with dementia.

VV Brown explains why after years of relaxing, weaving and extending it, she has embraced her natural hair.

A singer-songwriter, model and record producer, VV has long needed to take care of her image. But recent changes in her life have prompted her to ask why that has meant covering up her natural hair.

Producer: Giles Edwards.

Lucy Hurst-Brown asks why so many learning disabled people are so lonely.

Having worked with learning disabled people for 25 years, Lucy describes a system which has moved a very long distance from the impersonal, institutional care of the twentieth century, but which still has a long way to go before learning disabled people are properly integrated into their communities.

And in describing how she and her colleagues realised they may be causing the problem, and how they set about finding a solution, she also challenges all of us to play our part.

Producer: Giles Edwards.

Jeremy Leslie explains why reports of magazines dying have been greatly exaggerated.

Jeremy has spent years working in the print magazine industry, and runs the shop and website magCulture. But in recent years, as much commentary has focused on the rise of online and the accompanying death of print, Jeremy has instead seen a series of small, new and often niche print titles opening, and thriving. But why, and will it continue?

Producer: Giles Edwards.

Hannah Jane Walker makes the case for being a bit sensitive.

As a child Hannah was told to toughen up, not to be so sensitive, but now she says her sensitivity is who she is, and it's how she makes her income. And she thinks that people should embrace their sensitivity, and not pretend to be tough if they're not.

Producer: Giles Edwards.

Katz Kiely argues that we should all learn to better manage change.

Katz has advised governments, companies and international bodies on managing change. She says she is always surprised by how many organisations still adopt a top-down model of managing change, and she makes the case for a radically different way of doing so.

Producer: Giles Edwards.

Chris Pierson makes the case for a radical rethinking of private property.

Arguing that we are currently in the midst of a property crisis, Chris challenges us to go back to basics, to ask whether 'property is theft' and to consider whether there might be another way of allocating property.

Producer: Giles Edwards.

Kerry Littleford argues that mothers who have multiple children taken into care need help to stop it happening again.

As she shares her own story, Kerry makes the case for focusing not just on the children who have been taken into care, but the women whose problems haven't gone away.

Producer: Giles Edwards.

Annie Zimmerman and James Wheale argue that food is the perfect storytelling medium.

Working together as Understory, they are developing foods which go beyond taste and nutrients, but which pose another question: will people eat food if it doesn't taste delicious?

Producer: Giles Edwards.