Known in Your Bones

Our skin is a complex and dynamic organ and has evolved to protect us from harsh ultraviolet rays emitted from the sun. This can be seen through melanin, where people who live closer to the equator have darker skin tones and those living further north have fairer skin. This plays an important role in vitamin D and how it came to be known as the ‘sunshine vitamin’. From a foetus in the womb to infancy, through to adulthood and old age, our bones are constantly remodelling. They tell the story of how we lived and our contact with the sun.An arts and heritage podcast that shines a light on the sunshine Vitamin D and its all-powerful influence on and in our lives.Take a journey through the story of sunshine and Vitamin D through five different lenses - migration, food, equality, health and nature. Each episode features a mix of women’s voices, sharing original poetry and stories, offering food for thought and provocations, mixed with historical information, scientific facts, evocative sounds and music. An All Change production in partnership with London Metropolitan Archives supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.https://www.allchangearts.org/

Our Earth is a vast and complex planet, with ecologies that have developed over time to hold billions of species, living in a delicate balance, nurturing and sustaining each other under the gaze of the sun. The knowledge and reverence developed by humans for survival has shifted with time, and our planet and those in it have suffered. However there is a yearning now, more than ever, to be in open and green spaces, to understand our environment and connect back to nature.An arts and heritage podcast that shines a light on the sunshine Vitamin D and its all-powerful influence on and in our lives.Take a journey through the story of sunshine and Vitamin D through five different lenses - migration, food, equality, health and nature. Each episode features a mix of women’s voices, sharing original poetry and stories, offering food for thought and provocations, mixed with historical information, scientific facts, evocative sounds and music. An All Change production in partnership with London Metropolitan Archives supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.https://www.allchangearts.org/

Food plays a vital role in the journey of Vitamin D. Calcium which is found in dairy products, leafy green vegetables and sardines acts as a vehicle for Vitamin D, taking it to where it’s needed in the body. Whether you are living in a warm climate or a grey cloudy city in the UK, without the right nutrition you may be affected by Vitamin D deficiency. The story of the foods we consume to nourish and heal our bodies reveals an understanding of the environment and its relationship to the sun, our research has revealed that the ability to access healthy foods or the right kind of food is not always a simple one.An arts and heritage podcast that shines a light on the sunshine Vitamin D and its all-powerful influence on and in our lives.Take a journey through the story of sunshine and Vitamin D through five different lenses - migration, food, equality, health and nature. Each episode features a mix of women’s voices, sharing original poetry and stories, offering food for thought and provocations, mixed with historical information, scientific facts, evocative sounds and music. An All Change production in partnership with London Metropolitan Archives supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.https://www.allchangearts.org/

Spanning hundreds of years before the advent of medicine, women have developed home remedies and herbal medicines to treat diseases. The knowledge of this was often passed down through recipe books and oral histories. Women would add to these from their own knowledge or what they had learnt from others. Archives have shown us the ways women across the ages nurture and heal themselves, interrogate the intricacies of the Universe and medicine, creating a better and more equal world for others.An arts and heritage podcast that shines a light on the sunshine Vitamin D and its all-powerful influence on and in our lives.Take a journey through the story of sunshine and Vitamin D through five different lenses - migration, food, equality, health and nature. Each episode features a mix of women’s voices, sharing original poetry and stories, offering food for thought and provocations, mixed with historical information, scientific facts, evocative sounds and music. An All Change production in partnership with London Metropolitan Archives supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.www.allchangearts.org

As the earth rotates on its axis we draw closer and further away from the sun. Research has shown that only between April and October is there enough sunlight to make vitamin D in the UK and this is only for those with fairer skin. Those with darker skin can only make enough from sunlight if they are closer to the equator. For communities and individuals who have migrated, some forcefully displaced or enslaved, they carry with them ways of living and being to environments that their skin and bodies have not adapted to, affecting their physical and mental health. But we have always made journeys, crossing lands and oceans. Time has shown that we can carve new homes and make them our own.An arts and heritage podcast that shines a light on the sunshine Vitamin D and its all-powerful influence on and in our lives.Take a journey through the story of sunshine and Vitamin D through five different lenses - migration, food, equality, health and nature. Each episode features a mix of women’s voices, sharing original poetry and stories, offering food for thought and provocations, mixed with historical information, scientific facts, evocative sounds and music. An All Change production in partnership with London Metropolitan Archives supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.www.allchangearts.org