Tiny Tales with Big Truths

You've probably never been asked what your love actually makes. Only how it feels. What Love Makes starts with a woman, a stranger, and a trolley in a supermarket aisle, five seconds long, nothing dramatic, and uses it to ask a question most of us have never once turned toward our own lives. Not is this love. Not does this feel like love. What did this contact, this relationship, this moment, actu...

We spend so much of our lives organising ourselves around avoiding rejection. Preparing, performing, curating, hoping that if we get it right enough the fear will turn out to have been unnecessary. But what if the goal was never the outcome? What if it was always about whether you could remain yourself inside the process? This is a story about a dance track, a legendary producer, a rap Becky had n...

What happens when the story finally leaves the body and enters the room? In the final part of The Shape of Belonging , Becky Siame brings this live sonic journey to its emotional centre, where memory, music, voice, and witness become one. After moving through the early ache of belonging, adoption, identity, and the search for self, Part 3 opens into the power of being heard. This episode explores...

What happens when belonging is not just something we long for, but something our body remembers? In Part 2 of The Shape of Belonging , Becky Siame moves deeper into the story beneath the story, exploring adoption, identity, dislocation, voice, and the quiet ways we learn to shape ourselves around absence, expectation, and survival. This episode asks what it means to grow up searching for a place i...

What does belonging feel like before we have the language to explain it? In this first part of  The Shape of Belonging , Becky Siame begins with a childhood memory: a five-year-old girl standing in a school choir, visibly different, joyfully expressive, and already learning what it means to take up space in a room that has not quite made sense of her yet. Through story, reflection, and spoken...