Josie Long presents a selection of short documentaries with stories of loss and discovery.From being lost in the music to lost love - Josie delves into tales of forgotten cassette tapes, voices rediscovered and teenage rebellion.Hide and Seek
Feat. Steve ColganLost in Music
Produced by Steve UrquhartI am Luther Blissett
Produced by Rosanna ArbonFluctuations
Produced by Phil SmithLost Voices
Feat. Jude RogersLooking for Layla
Produced by Hana Walker-BrownProducer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4.
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Short documentaries and adventures in sound presented by Josie Long.
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Folge vom 25.06.2013Lost and Found
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Folge vom 18.06.2013Lines of CommunicationJosie Long presents a selection of short documentaries about communication - messages that could break your heart, rescue you from a fight or save you from a long stay in jail.The writer Glenn Patterson explains why sometimes we should ignore the writing on the wall, and musician Tom Robinson describes the unlikely message he sent at a time when he was in a lot of trouble.Stories of last words, lost love and lights being knocked out.The items featured in the programme are:Guess Who Found sound from the collection of Mark Vernon http://www.meagreresource.com/L'Esprit De L'Escalier Produced by Hana Walker-BrownYanto Featuring Glenn Patterson Produced by Rachel HooperMessage from Above Featuring Tom Robinson Produced by Alan HallDear Sophie Produced by Sara ParkerConversations with Nic Featuring Esther BakerProduced by Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.
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Folge vom 11.06.2013SplitJosie Long presents a series of delightful and adventurous short documentaries, brief encounters, true stories and found sound.We examine rips in the fabric of the universe as Josie Long delves into stories of splits, divisions and tears. From broken hearts to divided personalities.We hear from a woman who was so tired of being in two minds that she surrendered all of her decision making to a piece of string, a mimic who taught herself how to assume alternate personalities and we recover from heartbreak using the 'Automated Relationship Replacement Hotline'.The items featured in the programme are:Automated Relationship Replacement Hotline Originally broadcast in WireTap http://www.cbc.ca/wiretap/String Produced by Natalie Kestecher The full version of this story can be found here: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/360/string/4010328Split Voices Produced by Sarah CuddonOther Halves Produced by Dennis FunkProduced by Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.
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Folge vom 04.06.2013Taking FlightJosie Long presents a selection of short documentaries in which people hurl themselves into the air with the hope of taking flight.We glide through the air, fall into the sea and explore grand leaps of the imagination, which cross the border between dreaming and reality.From comedian Holly Walsh's tale of hurtling off the edge of a pier in a handmade helicopter, through to the story of a trapeze artist balancing on the edge of falling as he casts himself upwards.The items featured in the programme are:The Fall Featuring Charlie MorleySky Boy Produced by Hana Walker-BrownFalling for Rambo Featuring Holly Walsh Produced by Benjamin PartridgeThe Dreamers Featuring Charlie MorleyLooking Up Originally broadcast in 'Space' from Radiolab http://www.radiolab.orgProduced by Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.