This week 'Heritage Is...' looks at tourism and explores the challenging relationship between heritage and the tourism trade. Is a Tourism Tax the solution? We consider Wales, Rome, Stonehenge and Macchu Picchu while trying to answer that question. 

This week 'Heritage Is...' explores artificiality in the heritage sector, looking at the role and use of replicas and questioning to what extent we should be making use of these replacement resources. Taking in dinosaur bones, contested human remains from Wales and the Lascaux caves, this episode concludes with an exploration on whether or not Venice could be recreated in the United Arab Emirates...extreme, but it could happen. 

We also wish a happy Hispanic Heritage Month to our listeners, and include some links below with resources connected to the month-long festival of heritage - National Archives; National Museum of the American Latino.

As always, please come and have a chat with me about these themes at Kasuutta or Heritage_Is.

In this week's exploring of what Heritage Is...we begin to consider the issue of animal rights within intangible heritage. Focusing on bulls, we will explore traditional cultural practices in Spain, France, South Africa and Indonesia, asking whether or not certain traditions should be brought to a halt because of their exploitative relationships with animals, or whether or not external voices should step aside and allow source communities to reach points of realization on their own terms. 

As always, please come and have a chat with me about these themes at Kasuutta or Heritage_Is.

In the news, we have a quick look at the return of Open Doors, and promote the 'The Protection of Heritage in time of Conflict' conference coming up on the 17th of September. 

In this week's episode we explore the phenomena of the Lost City. What is it about the grand claim on the impossible archaeological settlements which captures the imagination. How are heritage interpretations impacted by and manipulated because of the lost city stories? Should heritage professionals embrace the exciting potential of the lost city story, or hold back from an ethnical minefield of exaggerated interpretations? 

In the news this week, we look at the important role of Operation Heritage Cymru and how a combined police partnership with heritage organizations in Wales, is helping to safeguard the historic landscape. 

You can reach me to talk about these themes, and more, at either Kasuutta or Heritage_Is, and please let me know what you would like considered for episode 3. 

This version of Episode 1 is a slight re-cut of the original release, minus a couple of musical elements. 

In episode 1 of 'Heritage Is...' we explore the concept of Intangible Heritage. We ask what intangible heritage is, consider how it thrives and where it is under threat, and question why the government of the United Kingdom seems to have no interest in this important form of heritage.

In the news this week, we look at the Horniman Museum's decision to return their Benin Bronzes to Nigeria.

You can reach me to chat about the themes in this week's episode either at Kasuutta or Heritage_Is.