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Short documentaries and adventures in sound presented by Josie Long.

  • 28 minutes 54 seconds
    Hereafter

    Chrononormativity, duppies and post-colonial thought. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures exploring beyond the past, present and futures.

    Language in the Land of Duppies: Exploring the origins of Jamaican folklore as a gateway to understanding the legacy of slavery on the island. Produced by Laura Carty Special thanks to Alexander Powell, Carmen Johnson, Natalia Downer, Kandice Thompson and Jean Smart.

    All my friends are turning into Stars Written and performed by David Amber Devereux With Dr Matthew Temple, Research Fellow, Universidad Diego Portales Additional voices by Lou Sutcliffe and Alessa Catterall Featuring quotes from De Profundus by Oscar Wilde, Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, and In A Queer Time And Place by Jack Halberstam

    Interjections on the future: There is not currently any obvious path to reconstructing a popular faith in political, economic and even some social institutions but while it might not always feel like it today, the unwinding of colonial modernity is underway and accelerating. Produced by composer and researcher, Sara Rahman. Featuring psychiatrist Isabel Valli and writers and artists Fer Boyd and Maedeline Stack.

    Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft Produced by Axel Kacoutié A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

    13 February 2024, 3:29 pm
  • 29 minutes 28 seconds
    The Net

    Word spirits, back rooms and a reply all-pocalypse - Josie Long presents short documentaries that emerge from the internet.

    Word Spirits With thanks to Caroline Hesse, Donovan McGrath, Mary Dolejsi, Nicole Reinsch, Nalini Kumari, Zen Priest & Buddhist Scholar John Stevens (for permission to include his Classical Aikido Kototama Chant), and Critical Sound Explorer & Artist Matt Parker (for permission to include excerpts from The People's Cloud / Field Recordings of Internet Data Centres): https://www.earthkeptwarm.com Additional mixing by Maitreya Produced by HJ Radia

    The Back Rooms Produced by Mae-Li Evans

    The Bello Tolls for Thee Produced by Nadia Mehdi

    Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

    6 February 2024, 3:30 pm
  • 29 minutes 16 seconds
    Roots

    Josie Long presents short documentaries that go back to the start. The musician Lucinda Chua traces the journey of a rose, a connection is forged between a young woman now and a trapeze artist on New Year's Eve 1942, and a touching personal archive illuminates the journey of a word.

    Muscles and Mysteries Produced by Teresa Kristoffersson

    First Words Produced by Kalli Anderson Featuring the voices of Kalli's parents, Kathy Hunt and Lance Anderson, as well as Kalli's husband, Zack Finkelstein, and their two children, aged 12 and 8.

    Reclaiming The Rose Produced, narrated and music by Lucinda Chua Chinese Narration by XiaoQiao Poetry in English and Chinese by He Sun

    Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

    30 January 2024, 3:30 pm
  • 29 minutes 13 seconds
    In Dreams

    A couple looks for each other in their dreams, a research facility delves into the otherworldly, and a philosopher imagines a flow of time set to the rhythm of our rivers - Josie Long presents short documentaries that emerge from the dreams of others.

    River Time Featuring Jonathon Keats Produced by Nadia Mehdi

    Haunted Featuring Linda Fleishman Produced by Elizabeth Friend

    Darling, Are You Dreaming? Featuring Jules and Vital Produced by Eloise Stevens

    Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

    23 January 2024, 3:30 pm
  • 28 minutes 51 seconds
    Instructions

    A pamphlet from the 1980s illuminates the world we live in now, a musical invitation for your domestic space, and some dazzling canine choreography for your ears. Josie Long presents short documentaries based around instructions.

    How to Listen... including How Not To, How You Ought To, and How You Won't (Extract) Written by Stephen Potter and Joyce Grenfell Produced by Stephen Potter Originally broadcast on BBC Third Programme in 1946

    Hot Dogs! Presented by Alan Smith Produced by Steve Urquhart Originally broadcast on Alan Smith's Mid Morning Show, BBC Radio Cumbria in 1999

    Hell Rubs and Sobs Produced by Sami El-Enany

    How To Look 30 When You're 30 Produced by Jesse Lawson

    Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

    16 January 2024, 3:30 pm
  • 29 minutes 51 seconds
    Minis

    The moment of time before a camera shutter closes, a symphony of ums reveals a partner's untruths, and two women linked by a phantom thread reflect on their changing bodies. Josie Long presents even shorter short documentaries.

    Is This An Image? Produced by Jon Tjhia

    Death from Above Written and read by Joe Dunthorne

    Body of Work Featuring the voices of writer Marleen Kruithof and cinematographer Babette Mangolte Music by Nicola Mecca Produced by Georgia Walker

    What's in an Um? Produced by Talia Augustidis

    Charon Composed, produced and performed by Jamie Payne

    Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

    9 January 2024, 3:30 pm
  • 29 minutes 22 seconds
    Archival Imaginings

    Liminal prose and cryptic hotlines. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures navigating our relationship and imaginations to history collecting.

    The Flight of Sankofa Produced by Weyland Mckenzie-Witter Featuring Lisa Anderson, the Director of the Black Cultural Archives, Dr Etienne Jospeh of Decolonising the Archive and Christopher West the inaugural curator for the Black diaspora, John Hay Library, Brown University, who recently curated an exhibition using Brown University’s Mumia Abu-Jamal collection.

    Xenoglossia Produced by Kamikaze Jones

    Fish & Chips (best listened to with headphones) Produced by Abira Hussein and Olani Ewunnet Recorded with Sue Bowerman Featuring the voices of Somali Aunties from London Special thanks to Alan Archer-Boyd, and Whose Knowledge?

    Produced by Axel Kacoutié Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

    14 November 2023, 3:30 pm
  • 28 minutes 38 seconds
    Heart's Desire

    Getting lost in childhood longings, the search for the home we carry inside ourselves and exploring true sexual desire in a world shaped by media and societal pressures. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures that explore our desires.

    American Glove Cafe Featuring Conor O’Toole and Fán Written and produced by Conor O’Toole

    Are We There Yet? Featuring Angeliki Androutsopoulos, Garth Davis, Amira and Danita, plus recordings by Mary Hufford for The Library of Congress. Produced by Jaye Kranz Original commissioned and produced for Constellations podcast

    Desire Shapes Featuring Poppy Produced by Phoebe McIndoe

    Produced by Andrea Rangecroft Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

    7 November 2023, 3:30 pm
  • 29 minutes 22 seconds
    Creature Features

    From a creature that leaps in the darkness of your basement to a fish that drains the life force of its partner - Josie Long presents creature features and creepy crawly short documentaries for Halloween.

    In Spirit Featuring James Maclaine, Senior Curator of Fish, at the Natural History Museum, London Produced and sound designed by Meera Kumar

    The Seventh Sense Thanks to Emma Rathbone, Gaye Williams, Ben Pagac, Mary Jane Epps, and everybody who shared a camel cricket story Music by Cue Shop, Big Lazy, and Blue Dot Sessions Produced by Jesse Dukes

    For the Pigeons Produced by John Luke Roberts

    Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

    31 October 2023, 3:30 pm
  • 29 minutes 54 seconds
    The Soil

    A remnant from the Cold War becomes an accidental haven for wildlife, a poet and a tree surgeon search for the roots of a metaphor, and a musician searches for an anchor to home. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about the ground beneath your feet.

    Always Moving Cello performed by Joe Reynolds Engineered by Yuri Shibuichi Composed and produced by Tendertwin (Bilge Nur Yilmaz)

    Memorial Landscape Featuring Kai Frobel Translator Jana Kosok Produced by Tom Phillips

    Poet / Tree A conversation between Matthew Reid and Raymond Antrobus

    Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

    24 October 2023, 2:30 pm
  • 28 minutes 49 seconds
    Into the World

    Visions and out of body experiences during birth and a name that stretches back through time - Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about the experience of coming into the world.

    Transition Produced by Kalli Anderson and apè Aliermo Featuring excerpts from SIMULA, an 8.2-channel sound installation by apè Aliermo and mixed and mastered by Rose Bolton. This composition includes sound recorded during three anonymous births and electromagnetic sound recorded in a hospital during one of the births. The voices you hear are Redzi Bernard, Becky Kenna, Amy Macfarlane and Andrea Gummo.

    Hope is the thing with feathers Produced by Nanna Hauge Kristensen Originally broadcast, in a different version, on BBC Radio 3's Between the Ears

    Loweza Ayazi Featuring Nomkhubulwane Mnisi Produced by Kagiso Mnisi

    Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

    17 October 2023, 2:30 pm
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