Rnz: The Podcast Hour

Long, long ago, in a time before bagless vacuum cleaners and Marie Kondo, sweeping with a brush was the best way we had to tidy up the places we work, rest, and play. To this day, some people still derive pleasure from the simple act of using a brush or a broom. And perhaps because sweeping is such an everyday, commonplace activity it's got symbolic, even spiritual, meanings attached to it in many cultures too. All this gets explored by host and poet Imtiaz Dharker in a BBC doco called 'Sweeping The World' produced by Emma-Louise Williams, a Loftus Media production for the BBC World Service (discovered via The Documentary Podcast from the BBC).