Episodes
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Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures which emerge from dreams, hidden places and the afterlife.
The Dreams (Extract)From Inventions for Radio by Barry Bermange and Delia DerbyshireOriginally broadcast on the BBC in 1964
Zero Fixation PointsProduced by Nada SmiljanicLocation production by Avi VarmaArchive courtesy of Rowan Farrell Featuring Professor Bridget Anderson and Travis Van Isacker from the University of Bristol
The Quiet Violence of DreamsProduced by Kagiso Mnisi
FragmentsProduced by Eleanor McDowall
Curated by Axel Kacoutié and Eleanor McDowallSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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Evaporating answers, mysterious music and disappearing dialects - Josie Long presents short documentaries about things in danger of becoming lost.
Pot-8-ToesFeaturing Billy Butler and Wally ScottOriginally broadcast in Hold Your Plums on Radio Merseyside
A Corner Seat in a Smoker, Facing the EngineProduced by Robin the Fog
Echoes of CockneyProduced by James Trice
PanchikoProduced by Tom Whalley
Curated by Axel Kacoutié and Eleanor McDowallSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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Life and love. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures exploring the language of care.
Life or DeathBy Marc KalaniFeaturing Cessie Alfonso and Carmeta Albarus author of The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo: The D.C. Sniper. BuzzBy Luca Evans (they/them)Featuring Joules Huang Duze (they/them) and Smokey Black (he/they)Additional recording by Aisha Lomax (she/her). Joules is a part-time organiser with Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and The LUNAR Collective, a volunteer with the Black Trans Liberation Kitchen, and a community educator for the Early Relationship Abuse Prevention Program. Smokey is a barber at Mutiny in Brooklyn NY. @Smokey.BlackPlease listen with headphones.
Patient as the HorizonBy Tej AdeleyeSarah Long from London Equine Therapy and Astrologer, Psychic Medium and Animal Communicator, Jessica Lanyadoo
Curated by Axel Kacoutié and Eleanor McDowallProduced by Axel KacoutiéA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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In water, on wheels or explained over the phone - Josie Long presents short documentaries about moving our bodies.
Field NotesFeaturing Hannah KezemaProduced by Jess Shane and Kristine White
Instructions for Returning to My BodyGamelan music courtesy of Nusantara Produced by Kia Miakka Natisse
The Pink FlamingoFeaturing Peter PrijdekkerSound Recording by Edd KentishProduced by Hunter Charlton and Vicki Carter
Curated by Axel Kacoutié and Eleanor McDowallSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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Two men on different continents share a love of butterflies, a swimming instructor seeks solace in the water and we dive inside an inner landscape. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures that emerge from the earth, water and sky.
PsalmFeaturing Emil Blicher Bjerregaard and Mudar SalimehInspired by the poem Psalm written by Wisława Szymborska Music by Simon don Eriksen and Gregor QuendelMix by Lærke Soedring NielsenProduced by Nanna Hauge Kristensen
My Body is of EarthCreated by Zara Zimbardo and Lily Sloane With editorial support from Keisha "TK" Dutes and sound consultation from Adriene Lilly
Finding Freedom in the Water: Gaza’s Swimming TeacherA version of this story first aired on BBC World Service's Outlook in March 2023 ('My Life in Seven Swimming Pools') and in an updated version in April 2024 ('Finding Freedom in the Water: Gaza's Swimming Teacher) presented by Jo FidgenSound design by Joel CoxInterpreter Youssef TahaProducer Louise Morris
Curated by Axel Kacoutié and Eleanor McDowallSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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A grand piano slowly climbs the stairs in Glasgow, a man in Brighton keeps finding his upright pianos going missing, a piano decays slowly in the woods while a grandson finds himself thrust into the role of a ship's pianist. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures with a piano at their heart.
Pianos Aren't His ForteFeaturing Mark CampbellProduced by Phil SmithIncluding piano performances from Mark Campbell and Songs Without Words composed by Felix Mendelssohn and performed by Vassily Primakov from the Free Music Archive
Piano in the WoodsWritten and produced by Ross SutherlandFeaturing performances from the project Piano in the Woods by the improviser, artist and curator Sam Bailey. You can learn more about the project at pianointhewoods.com
Two, Three, HupProduced by Steve UrquhartFeaturing piano performances by Steve Urquhart
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowallCurated by Axel Kacoutié and Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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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 CartySpecial thanks to Alexander Powell, Carmen Johnson, Natalia Downer, Kandice Thompson and Jean Smart.
All my friends are turning into StarsWritten and performed by David Amber DevereuxWith Dr Matthew Temple, Research Fellow,Universidad Diego PortalesAdditional voices by Lou Sutcliffe and Alessa CatterallFeaturing 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 KacoutiéA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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Word spirits, back rooms and a reply all-pocalypse - Josie Long presents short documentaries that emerge from the internet.
Word SpiritsWith 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.comAdditional mixing by MaitreyaProduced by HJ Radia
The Back RoomsProduced by Mae-Li Evans
The Bello Tolls for TheeProduced by Nadia Mehdi
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea RangecroftSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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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 MysteriesProduced by Teresa Kristoffersson
First WordsProduced 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 ChuaChinese Narration by XiaoQiaoPoetry in English and Chinese by He Sun
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea RangecroftSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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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 TimeFeaturing Jonathon KeatsProduced by Nadia Mehdi
HauntedFeaturing Linda FleishmanProduced by Elizabeth Friend
Darling, Are You Dreaming?Featuring Jules and VitalProduced by Eloise Stevens
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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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 GrenfellProduced by Stephen PotterOriginally broadcast on BBC Third Programme in 1946
Hot Dogs!Presented by Alan SmithProduced by Steve UrquhartOriginally broadcast on Alan Smith's Mid Morning Show, BBC Radio Cumbria in 1999
Hell Rubs and SobsProduced by Sami El-Enany
How To Look 30 When You're 30Produced by Jesse Lawson
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea RangecroftSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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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 AboveWritten and read by Joe Dunthorne
Body of WorkFeaturing the voices of writer Marleen Kruithof and cinematographer Babette MangolteMusic by Nicola MeccaProduced by Georgia Walker
What's in an Um?Produced by Talia Augustidis
CharonComposed, produced and performed by Jamie Payne
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea RangecroftSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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Liminal prose and cryptic hotlines. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures navigating our relationship and imaginations to history collecting.
The Flight of SankofaProduced by Weyland Mckenzie-WitterFeaturing 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.
XenoglossiaProduced by Kamikaze Jones
Fish & Chips(best listened to with headphones)Produced by Abira Hussein and Olani EwunnetRecorded with Sue BowermanFeaturing the voices of Somali Aunties from LondonSpecial thanks to Alan Archer-Boyd, and Whose Knowledge?
Produced by Axel KacoutiéCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea RangecroftA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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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 CafeFeaturing Conor O’Toole and FánWritten 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 KranzOriginal commissioned and produced for Constellations podcast
Desire ShapesFeaturing PoppyProduced by Phoebe McIndoe
Produced by Andrea RangecroftCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea RangecroftA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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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 SpiritFeaturing James Maclaine, Senior Curator of Fish, at the Natural History Museum, LondonProduced and sound designed by Meera Kumar
The Seventh SenseThanks 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 SessionsProduced by Jesse Dukes
For the PigeonsProduced by John Luke Roberts
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowallCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea RangecroftA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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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 MovingCello performed by Joe ReynoldsEngineered by Yuri ShibuichiComposed and produced by Tendertwin (Bilge Nur Yilmaz)
Memorial LandscapeFeaturing Kai Frobel Translator Jana KosokProduced by Tom Phillips
Poet / TreeA conversation between Matthew Reid and Raymond Antrobus
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowallCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea RangecroftA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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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.
TransitionProduced by Kalli Anderson and apè AliermoFeaturing 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 feathersProduced by Nanna Hauge KristensenOriginally broadcast, in a different version, on BBC Radio 3's Between the Ears
Loweza Ayazi Featuring Nomkhubulwane MnisiProduced by Kagiso Mnisi
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowallCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea RangecroftA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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Notes to Self and Sonic Symmetry. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures exploring what it looks like coming back to yourself.
The NewsProduced by Jess ShaneFeaturing Jennifer Mills
Drawn OnwardProduced by Alan Goffinski and Sarita BhattMusic, Mix and Sound Design by Alan Goffinski
Man to BoyProduced by Christina Hardinge and Jack MiguelFeaturing Jacob KellyMusic by Samuel Mumford
Produced by Axel KacoutiéCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea RangecroftA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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A simple object offers comfort and connection to a grandmother and a long line of Indian women; a wife uncovers the fingerprints her husband left on their world and with them, the microscopic details of grief; and an Urdu language lesson between a father and daughter reveals cultural loss and the father's longing to belong. Josie Long presents short documentaries that reverberate through time.
Silver Cup: A Female GrammarWritten and produced by HJ RadiaWith thanks to Laura BartonIn loving memory of J.K Dave (1956-2023)
Fingerprints and LightbulbsWritten and produced by Amanda Priestley
22 WordsFeaturing Safwat Saleem and his daughterProduced by Safwat Saleem
Produced by Andrea RangecroftCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea RangecroftA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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A small boy accidentally creates a vast new lizard population in his hometown, a sonic storm gathers and a writer takes his family on a precarious family boat trip. Josie Long presents short documentaries about situations tumbling out of control.
Eight Go To Treasure IslandWritten and read by Joe Dunthorne
A MirrorFeaturing Steve UrquhartProduced by Eleanor McDowallFeaturing cellos by incidentalnoiseWith thanks to Rosalind Jana for pointing out the poetry of the Beaufort Scale
Lazarus LizardsNarrated by AddieProduced by Jennifer McCord and Carrie Ann Welsh
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowallCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea RangecroftA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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