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Short Cuts

<p>Short documentaries and adventures in sound presented by Josie Long.</p>

BBC Radio 4

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures as the clock slips closer to midnight. In the last Short Cuts on BBC Radio 4, 13 years after the broadcast of our first ever episode 'Misadventures', we listen to radio waves after dark with the Shortwave Collective, tumble into a radio poem alongside a sleeping child, tune into a late night pirate radio station from the early 1960s, and raise a parting glass.At Least
Featuring Xelis de Toro
Produced by Phil SmithVoice of Nuclear Disarmament
With thanks to the British Library Sound Archive, and the family of John Hasted
Produced by Jonny MatfinPerhaps at Midnight, When All Boundaries Are Lost
Produced by the Shortwave CollectiveGood Company 
Featuring Jesse Lawson, Izzy Yon and Femi Oriogun-Williams
Produced by Jesse LawsonCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
Mix by Mike Woolley
Executive Producer: Alan Hall
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Midnight

A friendship forged working the land, memories of volcanic eruptions from 800,000 years ago frozen in Antarctica’s ice cores, and the importance of wild, patient gardens. Short documentaries presented by Josie Long that rise up from the earth.Wintering
Music by Jules Bradley
Produced by Jules BradleyMelt Tones
Featuring Dr Dieter Tetzner
Produced by Anton SpiceSue’s Garden
Featuring Sue Trolle
Music by Sóley
Produced by Rikke HoudProduced by Andrea Rangecroft
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
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Earth

A criminal defence lawyer finds a surprising new job foisted upon him and a son attempts to recover his joyfulness on a family holiday. Josie Long presents short festive documentaries and merry sonic adventures.Family Yoga
Produced by Kit CallinA Conversation with my Mum at Christmas
Featuring Rhik Samadder
A version of this story first appeared in Rhik Samadder's memoir, I Never Said I Loved You
Music by The Enchanted Cinema
Produced by Sarah CuddonMiracle on the George Washington Bridge
Produced by Luke GreenSanta Calls
Featuring Matt Storrs
Produced by Talia AugustidisCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
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Merry Christmas

Feeding the birds, sharing meals and chaotic menus - Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about eating together.Bird Feeder
Produced by Stella SimsAnd to Start...
Produced by Mae-Li EvansFoodhall
Produced by Nadia MehdiCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
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Feast

Time capsules and yesterday's dreams of tomorrow, Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures exploring lost futures.That’s Merely an Adjective 
Produced by Zara KarschayTime Play by Chelsea Kigano, Lily Sloane, Lilia Vega, and Emily Shaw
Originally made as part of The 24-Hour Radio Race from KCRW's Independent Producer Project
Music and sound design by Lily Sloane, with Time Ain't Gonna Make Me Stay by Ed Andrews
Special thanks to David LeeLetters 
Produced by Mika Golubovsky and Sasha Borzenko
Featuring Zehnya Feldman and Natasha ZotovaHigher Ground
Produced by Leila Goldstein 
Featuring Winda Safitri, Yoppi and Naya Hidayatul AlialnaCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Produced by Axel Kacoutié
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Lost Futures

Siren song, lunar eavesdroppers and the gathering dark - Josie Long presents short documentaries about venturing into the night.Siren Song
Featuring melancholydi
Produced by Kalli AndersonLunar Eavesdroppers
An extract from Space Ham, first broadcast in BBC Radio 3's Between the Ears
Produced by Rose de Larrabeiti and Caroline Devine
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 3Beneath
Produced by Sami El-EnanyBrücke
Featuring Stephen Jenkinson
Produced by Phil SmithCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
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Into the Night

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures that venture into the forest.Searching for Eden
Written, performed and composed by Nyokabi Kariũki 
Drums - Chris O'Leary
Field Recordings taken in Mũrang'a, KenyaThe Final Breath
Featuring Robin Elms
Produced by Kendra Hanna and Max JungreisEl Manglar
Featuring Paolo Realpe, founder of Muisne Desde Adentro 
Special thanks to Dr. Pilar Egüez Guevara, co-founder and director of  Comidas que Curan (Foods that Heal)
Produced by Mickal AranhaCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
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The Forest

Wishes, wonders, and wisdom. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures uncovering the power of words.mother-house by produced by Catherine Boulle.
Inspired by the guided visualisations accompanying the book 'Motherhood: Is it for me?' by Denise L. Carlini & Ann Davidman.Weird World Whimsy produced and composed by Suzie McCarthy.
Featuring actor, teacher and director, Mary Lou Rosato.
Interview recording by audio producer Donelle Wederburn in New York City. 
The piece featured a canoe trip on the Tapiskwan Sipi, which runs through Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok territory in the unceded province of Quebec.
Special thanks to Nina Garthwaite, Tom Todoroff, Emily Moulton, Katherina Lindekens and Emma Lehman from Noise Club.Buranbur: a comfort in words by audio maker and producer Suhaar Ali.
Featuring the first Somali woman elected to the cabinet, Fadumo Aalin, who talks about her mother and poet Hawo Jibril.Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Produced by Axel Kacoutié
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A Word

Trying to capture a lost homeland on tape, reclaiming urban landscapes through the sound of skateboarding, and the noise that is one of the great equalisers of the world.  Short documentaries that ripple through space - presented by Josie Long.Sonic Skateboarding
Produced by Alice Boyd and Tom Critchley
Featuring Ben Dixon, Tom Critchley, Hannah, Zip and Bleu 
Music composed by Ben DixonNat’s Apartment
Written and produced by Emma-Lee Moss
Music by Emma-Lee Moss and Nata Lee HahnLove in the Time of Flatulence
Featuring Alison Downham Moore, Noam Osband, Zebulon Osband and Dahlia Osband
Written and produced by Noam OsbandProduced by Andrea Rangecroft
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
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Sound Waves

Josie Long presents short documentaries against the clock in an episode around time and timing.Dad's Secret Life of Matchmaking
Produced by Josephine Anderson
Additional sound recording by Christopher AndersonLoose Ends
Produced by Jon TjhiaThere's Always a Next Time
Produced by Steve UrquhartCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
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In Time

Star maps, messages from Earth to the moon and reaching out across distance as Josie Long presents short documentaries about constellations.Star Map
Featuring Ferdinand Hauge Leth
Music by Kirstine Lindemann
Captured by Trawl Hz
Produced by Nanna Hauge KristensenNews to the Moon and Back
Recordings courtesy of the NASA archive
Produced by Mika GolubovskyThe Complaints Department
Featuring Evan Gregg and letters from www.dearmisterward.com
Produced by Inge Oosterhoff Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
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Constellation

A black and white film transformed, searching the sunset for the green flash and a reimagining of red. Josie Long presents a kaleidoscopic collection of short documentaries.Autism Plays Itself
Adapted for radio by Jodie Taylor and Janet Harbord
Based on the short film directed by Janet Harbord, produced by Whalebone Films and sound designed by Action PyramidGreen Flash
Written by Joe DunthorneRed of Visibility 
Produced by Phoebe McIndoe
With thanks to THE ECCO founded by Jasmin Bauomy, where a version of this documentary was first createdCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
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In Colour

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 Derbyshire
Originally broadcast on the BBC in 1964Zero Fixation Points
Produced by Nada Smiljanic
Location production by Avi Varma
Archive courtesy of Rowan Farrell 
Featuring Professor Bridget Anderson and Dr Travis Van Isacker from the University of BristolThe Quiet Violence of Dreams
Produced by Kagiso MnisiFragments
Produced by Eleanor McDowallCurated by Axel Kacoutié and Eleanor McDowall
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
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The Invisible

Evaporating answers, mysterious music and disappearing dialects - Josie Long presents short documentaries about things in danger of becoming lost.Pot-8-Toes
Featuring Billy Butler and Wally Scott
Originally broadcast in Hold Your Plums on Radio MerseysideA Corner Seat in a Smoker, Facing the Engine
Produced by Robin the FogEchoes of Cockney
Produced by James TricePanchiko
Produced by Tom WhalleyCurated by Axel Kacoutié and Eleanor McDowall
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
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Lost

Life and love. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures exploring the language of care.Life or Death
By Marc Kalani
Featuring Cessie Alfonso and Carmeta Albarus author of The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo: The D.C. Sniper.
 
Buzz
By 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.Black
Please listen with headphones.Patient as the Horizon
By Tej Adeleye
Sarah Long from London Equine Therapy and Astrologer, Psychic Medium and Animal Communicator, Jessica LanyadooCurated by Axel Kacoutié and Eleanor McDowall
Produced by Axel Kacoutié
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Devotions

In water, on wheels or explained over the phone - Josie Long presents short documentaries about moving our bodies.Field Notes
Featuring Hannah Kezema
Produced by Jess Shane and Kristine WhiteInstructions for Returning to My Body
Gamelan music courtesy of Nusantara 
Produced by Kia Miakka NatisseThe Pink Flamingo
Featuring Peter Prijdekker
Sound Recording by Edd Kentish
Produced by Hunter Charlton and Vicki CarterCurated by Axel Kacoutié and Eleanor McDowall
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
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Body Movements

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.Psalm
Featuring Emil Blicher Bjerregaard and Mudar Salimeh
Inspired by the poem Psalm written by Wisława Szymborska 
Music by Simon don Eriksen and Gregor Quendel
Mix by Lærke Soedring Nielsen
Produced by Nanna Hauge KristensenMy Body is of Earth
Created by Zara Zimbardo and Lily Sloane 
With editorial support from Keisha "TK" Dutes and sound consultation from Adriene LillyFinding Freedom in the Water: Gaza’s Swimming Teacher
A 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 Fidgen
Sound design by Joel Cox
Interpreter Youssef Taha
Producer Louise MorrisCurated by Axel Kacoutié and Eleanor McDowall
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Earth, Water, Sky

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 Forte
Featuring Mark Campbell
Produced by Phil Smith
Including piano performances from Mark Campbell and Songs Without Words composed by Felix Mendelssohn and performed by Vassily Primakov from the Free Music ArchivePiano in the Woods
Written and produced by Ross Sutherland
Featuring 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.comTwo, Three, Hup
Produced by Steve Urquhart
Featuring piano performances by Steve UrquhartSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowall
Curated by Axel Kacoutié and Eleanor McDowall
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A Piano

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 HalberstamInterjections 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
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Hereafter

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 RadiaThe Back Rooms
Produced by Mae-Li EvansThe Bello Tolls for Thee
Produced by Nadia MehdiCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
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The Net

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 KristofferssonFirst 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
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Roots

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 MehdiHaunted
Featuring Linda Fleishman
Produced by Elizabeth FriendDarling, Are You Dreaming?
Featuring Jules and Vital
Produced by Eloise StevensCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft 
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
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In Dreams

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 1946Hot Dogs!
Presented by Alan Smith
Produced by Steve Urquhart
Originally broadcast on Alan Smith's Mid Morning Show, BBC Radio Cumbria in 1999Hell Rubs and Sobs
Produced by Sami El-EnanyHow To Look 30 When You're 30
Produced by Jesse LawsonCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
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Instructions

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 TjhiaDeath from Above
Written and read by Joe DunthorneBody of Work
Featuring the voices of writer Marleen Kruithof and cinematographer Babette Mangolte
Music by Nicola Mecca
Produced by Georgia WalkerWhat's in an Um?
Produced by Talia AugustidisCharon
Composed, produced and performed by Jamie PayneCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
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Minis

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 JonesFish & 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
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Archival Imaginings

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’TooleAre 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 podcastDesire Shapes
Featuring Poppy
Produced by Phoebe McIndoeProduced by Andrea Rangecroft
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Heart's Desire

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 KumarThe 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 DukesFor the Pigeons
Produced by John Luke RobertsSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowall
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
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Creature Features

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 PhillipsPoet / Tree
A conversation between Matthew Reid and Raymond AntrobusSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowall
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

The Soil

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 EarsLoweza 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

Into the World

Notes to Self and Sonic Symmetry. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures exploring what it looks like coming back to yourself.The News
Produced by Jess Shane
Featuring Jennifer MillsDrawn Onward
Produced by Alan Goffinski and Sarita Bhatt
Music, Mix and Sound Design by Alan GoffinskiMan to Boy
Produced by Christina Hardinge and Jack Miguel
Featuring Jacob Kelly
Music by Samuel MumfordProduced by Axel Kacoutié
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Meeting Myself Coming Back

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 Grammar
Written and produced by HJ Radia
With thanks to Laura Barton
In loving memory of J.K Dave (1956-2023)Fingerprints and Lightbulbs
Written and produced by Amanda Priestley22 Words
Featuring Safwat Saleem and his daughter
Produced by Safwat SaleemProduced by Andrea Rangecroft
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Echoes

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 Island
Written and read by Joe DunthorneA Mirror
Featuring Steve Urquhart
Produced by Eleanor McDowall
Featuring cellos by incidentalnoise
With thanks to Rosalind Jana for pointing out the poetry of the Beaufort ScaleLazarus Lizards
Narrated by Addie
Produced by Jennifer McCord and Carrie Ann WelshSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowall
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

The Tipping Point

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about finding meaning amid the noise.The poet and audio producer Ross Sutherland seeks to understand the strange echoes in his hearing, a remnant from a house fire is transformed into music and the radio-maker Liza Yeager finds magic in a series of encounters. Hallucinations
Featuring Dr Theresa Marschall and Lizzy Dening
Produced by Ross SutherlandThe Right Colour Candle
Featuring Annegret Curtis, Ed Dadey and Jan Gehmlich
Produced by Liza YeagerStovepipe Wind Harp Summons the Frogs
Produced by Fil CorbittSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowall
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Signal to Noise

Made up, mixed or invented. Josie Long presents not-so-long-radio sound paintings melting how we use words to make space for who we want to be.A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening
Produced by Darragh Amelia
Featuring June Katz, Patricia Hirsch, poet Xiao Yue Shan, photographer Anna Francesca Jennings and historian Alma Simba.The Magic of Waves
Produced by Ève-Marie BouchéRemember There Is More
Produced by Tej Adeleye
Featuring activist Ngozi Alston, creator of the term Neuroexpansive; Dr Nick Walker, creator of Neuroqueer theory; Dr Ned Hallowell; Dr Keri Opai; Matana Roberts; Aiyanna Goodfellow, founder of Neuromancers and “a darling spook, writer, ghost whisperer, and friend".Produced by Axel Kacoutié
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
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New Word Order

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures rediscovering the contexts that give cause to communities and their art. An Image Interrupted 
Produced by Danny Greenwald
Featuring the voice of Taha Heydariàlá lo lá (You Dreamed a Dream)
Produced by Tobi Adebajo
Poems: In a Dream, Agbegbe T’ala, Safari Ya Siri
Sound Design by Tobi Adebajo
Music by Akin Euba, Nabalayo, petals and Tobi AdebajoBanned in America
Produced by Lucy Evans (they/them), also known as the drag king Sir Cum Sized (he/him).
Featuring interviews with:
Angelique Young-Cavalier (she/her), a Trans, Equal rights activist, Motivational Speaker and Drag Queen Entertainer Based in Tampa, Florida. 
Jackie Rosebutch (they/them), a non-binary drag Goddex and environmental science enthusiast based in Missoula, Montana. 
Maxi Glamour (they/them) @maxiglamour, a multidisciplinary artist at the intersection of high fantasy and social critique. Known as the Demon Queen of Polka and Baklava, Maxi Glamour uses demonological imagery as an allegory for how marginalised people are demonised by society, and wit and magic to examine the structural harm of oppression.
Bella DuBalle (she/her), a Show Director and Host at Atomic Rose in Memphis Tennessee, and also a licensed minister who has performed many weddings. Bella created and hosts “the Mid-South’s local RuPauls’s Drag Race", a competition called War of the Roses.
Bobby Pudrido (he/him), a Texas-based drag king and show producer who uses drag as a way to explore, blend, and showcase his queerness and Latine culture. In his drag show productions, Pudrido prioritises trans, gender diverse, black and brown drag kings and their accomplices as a way to push back against the erasure of these identities in mainstream culture.
Special thanks to Samara Slaughter (she/her), JD Miller (they/them), Butch Mermaid (they/them), Sam Bam Thankyoumaam (they/he), Hugh Mann Race (he/they), Puppi Love (she/they), Dick TransDyke (they/he), Problem Child (she/they), Luxury Bones (he/they) and Andie Sleaze (they/he) from New York the chorus of resistance heard at the beginning.Produced by Axel Kacoutié,
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

From the texture of silence to sonic disappearances, Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about the soundscapes we inhabit.Omissa Oloisaan
Produced by Miyuki JokirantaA Moonlit Memory
Featuring Salma Ahmed Caller
Sounds from YleArkisto, reinsamba, Benboncan, Julius_galla, Straget, FaireDesVagues and SoundLover16 on freesound.org
Produced by Taqwa SadiqSacha Taki
Featuring Jonathan Grefa, president of the Ancestral Kichwa Population of Kawsak Sacha (PAKKS - https://pakks.org.ec/), Rosa Santi, Education and Health Coordinator of PAKKS, Dr. Paola Moscoso, Director of Voces del Bosque and Graciela Tupay (singer)
With thanks to Amaru Grefa, External communication and media of PAKKS, Pastor Inmunda, ex-president of PAKKS, Didier Lacaze, Director of Sacha Warmi.
Rosa Canelos, Sacha Warmi, Dr. Alice Eldridge, University of Sussex, Gustavo Chiriboga, Voces del Bosque, Sozapato
With recordings from Voces del Bosque 
https://www.vocesdelbosque.com/?lang=en
Produced by Mickal AranhaCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Soundscape

An in-patient in a spinal injuries unit reconnects with herself by learning to cook again after a life-changing injury, friends remember the musician Joe Scurfield and the archive of folk music he left behind, and a radio cantata in memory of 12 civilians killed by US forces in Iraq in 2007. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about remembering, relearning and commemorating. Canto I, Crazy Horse One-Eight
Produced and performed by Gregory Whitehead
Commissioned by Magz Hall for the 2014 Radio Dreamlands projectFeast
Produced by Bronwen LivingstoneThe Tunebank
Featuring Tim Dalling and Pete Challoner
Produced by Rowan Rheingans
Music performed by Joe Scurfield, Tim Dalling, Pete Challoner and Rowan RheingansProduced by Andrea Rangecroft
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Memory

From professional news watchers who speak each word aloud to melting ice, Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about the flow of stories through and around people.Melting
Produced by Jules BradleyCirculation
Field Recordings from InspectorJ, Zimbot, Dobroide, Tosha73 on freesound.org
Produced by Son HansonBikes Up Ben Nevis
Featuring Iain Lynn
Violin by Eloise Kenny-Ryder
Produced and composed by Calum PerrinCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Flow

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures centred on a specific point on the map. An Arctic voyage that veers off track and echoes for years in the minds of its passengers, a baking hot summer evening in Suffolk, and an audio essay exploring the effect of environmental racism on memories of the West London town of Southall.At Sea
Featuring Dr Carol Cotterill, Liam Frost, Dan Harvey and the ship’s crew
Produced and read by Vicky Long8pm, rural village garden, Suffolk, UK on 19th July 2022
Produced by Melissa Harrison
Originally featured on the Field Recordings podcastThe Personal is Political
Written and read by Daljeet Kaur JutlaProduced by Andrea Rangecroft
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Geographies

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about being in motion - from scandalising dance moves to taking flight.The Twist
Extract from Between the Ears: Monument (London 1935 - 1993)
First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 1993
Composed by Ian Gardiner
Produced by Alan Hall
Performed by Ensemble George W Welch
With a cast of voices from the BBC Sound ArchiveLife Begins in the Stillness
Featuring Gabriel Rodreick
Produced by Julie CensulloUnknown Person (from Baggage Allowance)
Released on the album A Secret Code
Composed and performed by Pamela ZJoy of Bundle
Sound design by Axel Kacoutié
Written and produced by Lou MensahCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Movement

From one last journey in the morning light to caring for an endling - the last of a species - Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures that begin at the end.Toughie
Featuring Mark Mandica
Produced by Sarah Craig
Including recordings by Mark Mandica and Thomas BancroftThe Heart's Chorus (Extract)
Originally created for the HearSay Festival in 2019
With musical performances from Niamh O'Brien (harp) and Wes Swing (cello)
Produced and composed by Phil SmithSetting Sail (Extract)
Originally broadcast in 1985
Produced by Piers PlowrightCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

An Ending

From pirate radio to queering futures, Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures exploring fugitive acts of resistance.Radio Free Dixie by Weyland McKenzie-Witter 
Produced by Weyland McKenzie-Witter   
Featuring Teishan Latner (Assistant professor of history at Thomas Jefferson University and author of Cuban Revolution in America: Havana and the Making of a United States Left, 1968-1992 (UNC Press, 2018).  
Claude Marks is the co-director of the Freedom Archive in Berkeley California
2023 A2 History class from BSix College in HackneyWHITE NOISE
Produced by Axel KacoutiéA Symphony of Quiet
Produced by Tej Adeleye
Featuring Professor Kevin Quashie, Mabel, Bridget, Flo and Idris from Out & Proud African LGBTI (OPAL) and PetalsCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Produced by Axel Kacoutié
Executive Producer: Alan Hall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Fugitive

Eavesdrop on the conversations of cows and go in search of the 'whistle pig', as Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about animals.Extract from Actual bird record of a nightingale no. 1. Published by The Gramophone Company Ltd in 1910.
From the British Library Sound Archive, part of the Animals: Art, Science and Sound exhibition
https://sounds.bl.ukRoger
Produced by Kalli AndersonDoes a Cow Know?
Featuring Samar Nasrullah Khan
Produced by Katie RevellCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Creatures

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures that invite a listener to participate. From a musical performance to sinking into the perspective of your wall.Your Wall
Produced by Sharon Mashihi
Originally created for the audio issue of McSweeney’s magazine, in collaboration with Radiotopia
Sharon’s editor at McSweeney’s was Claire Boyle. Additional notes were provided by Audrey Mardavich and Julie Shapiro.Three Layer Score
Produced by Kalli Anderson
Engineer: Chad Bernhard 
Composer and Narrator: Elizandro Garcia Montoya
Performers: Kalli Anderson, Theo Carroll, Minna Finkelstein, Elwyn Finkelstein, Zack Finkelstein, Jacob Krupnick, Lu Olkowski, Jess Shane, Carly Stone, Kate Sutherland and Zoe TennantLate night, with headphones, in a completely, utterly, dark room, with some space to move 
by Hofesh Shechter 
From Everyday Moments, produced by Fuel
To hear more, visit Fuel Digital at https://fueltheatre.com/projects/everyday-moments/Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Invitations

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about life on wheels. A woman cyclist rolls solo though the Scottish landscape, a car park becomes a vortex of roller skaters and Jungle music at night, and listening to the rhythms of all that spins.Carpark Cruisers and Jungle Movers
Produced by Olivia DaviesWheel Talk
Composed and produced by Sami El-EnanyPostcards
Written and produced by Rowan Rheingans
Music composed and performed by Rowan Rheingans
Bagpipes by John-Francis GoodacreProduced by Andrea Rangecroft
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

On Wheels

Listen to the music of decomposing mushrooms, look through a photographer's lens at a surprising streak of streaking in the 1970s, and explore the world of a Danish hospital clown who opens up a pocket of a different reality. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about the joys that lurk beneath the surface of things.Mushroom Music
Featuring Mati Araoz
Produced by Seb MastersA Different Reality
Featuring Boaz Barkan
Produced by Nanna Hauge KristensenThe Streak!
Featuring Ron Harr
Including original compositions by Alan Goffinski
Produced by Alan GoffinskiCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Dig for Joy!

A shared experience of sonic joy crosses over the boundary of a prison wall, a conversation across generations explores being alive to the present moment, and an audio artwork from the archives plunges a listener into the sensation of time speeding up. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures that hold you in the present tense.The Evenings of Certain Lives (two extracts)
Produced by Barry Bermange
Composition by Delia Derbyshire (Radiophonic Workshop)Listening / Reminiscing
by Lavender Suarez
(via the producer Kalli Anderson)In The Moment
Produced by Amalie SortlandPrisoncast!
These sounds were originally recorded for Season 4 of the Motive Podcast from WBEZ, hosted by Shannon Heffernan
WBEZ’s Lauren Frost and Alex Keefe headed up the original Prisoncast! broadcast, which was hosted by Ayana Contreras. But a big team of producers and editors came together to record and mix the sounds.
This Short Cuts edit was created by Shannon HeffernanCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft.
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Present Tense

Memories, love and snot. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures exploring the labyrinth of fatherhood.An Occasion for Tears
Produced by Mike WilliamsIn Third Person (For my son)
Written and read by Raymond AntrobusAre You Here?
Produced by Axel KacoutiéCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Produced by Axel Kacoutié
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Fatherhood

From searching for voices in a sea of static to words falling away in a period of grief, Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about moments when language evades us.A Study in Quietness
Produced by Cat GoughAl Waqwaq 
Composed by Sami El-EnanyUnderstanding Gwyn
Co-created by audio producer Christina Hardinge and her interviewee Christina
Sound designer & Composer Noemie DucimetiereCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Andrea Rangecroft and Eleanor McDowall
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Without Words

A private empty gravel lot transforms into a community beach in the pandemic and an invitation to step inside a work of art - Josie Long presents short documentaries about worlds turned upside down.Bloordale Beach
Feat. Shari Kasman
Produced by Sarah Melton
With music from Pop Plug & Canada Katana and CatjamPortals
Featuring Cassi Namoda
Originally produced for Shade Podcast's series Interludes.
Conceptualised by Executive Producer, Lou Mensah and created by Audio Artist, Axel Kacoutié
Shade Podcast - https://pod.link/1469562537FIELDS
Original music by Ariana Martinez
Produced by Ariana MartinezCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Through the Looking Glass

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures on the flow of water. A stream of voices from around the world speak of the myths and legends born from water. The author Damian Le Bas follows the ripples left by a tragedy on the River Medway in the 1850s. And at the confluence of two rivers, the writer Laura Barton looks to the poet Raymond Carver for guidance on her last decade.Other Water
Written and read by Laura Barton
			
In Fresh Water
Featuring Ed Granston, Stephen Mallett and Damian Le Bas
Produced by Damian Le Bas and Andrea Rangecroft
					
A River of Voices				
Featuring Devi Lockwood, Jo Darrington, Zella Downing, Iain Wilson, Mark Binder, Ole Øvretveit, Lupita Pocket, Leszek Daworski, Ateli Nasoru, Steve Maina, Ryan Burns and 3 anonymous women in Mississippi.
Produced by Samia Bouzid and Devi LockwoodCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

The River

As time appears to fall still between Christmas Day and New Year's Eve, Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures that play with our temporal senses.Blight
Created by Jocelyn Pook and John Smith
Originally created for the series Sound on Film in 1996
Released on Purge RecordsRaven
Produced by Vaida PilibaitytėTime Stops
Produced by Jules BradleyCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Time Stops

Josie Long presents short Yuletide documentaries and festive audio adventures. Two women discover their families are tied by the true story behind the classic film It’s A Wonderful Life, and a Ukrainian singing group in Canada remembers loved ones through Christmas songs as war continues in their homeland. Also, a profile on Father Christmas and a nativity criticism session with its young cast.Profile on Father Christmas
Featuring Raymond Briggs and Janet Cohen
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1981Seneca Falls
Featuring Elizabeth Kress and Kathy Williamson
Produced by Andrea RangecroftNativity Criticism
Featuring Harold Williamson and children from two schools in Sunderland
Produced by Michael Barton
From an episode of Children Talking called The Spirit of Christmas. First broadcast on Boxing Day 1963.Can We Come Carol?
Featuring Natalia Telentso
The singers are Eli Camilo, Natalia, Carlos, Olga, Vera, Olessia, Briga, Anna and Mira from the Montreal Koliada group that was co-founded by Natalia and Eli.
Produced by Mira Burt-WintonickProduced by Andrea Rangecroft
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Season's Greetings

The secret language between partners, the melody of the voice, laughter from your belly and permission to scream - Josie long presents short visceral documentaries about how we express ourselves.Belly Laugh
Featuring the voices of Jane Watson, Jean Mcglashen and Sue Relf with her husband Willy, and the laughter yoga session run by Brighton Laughter Club.
Produced by Jodie TaylorAAAAH!
Produced by Jesse LawsonAnatomy of a Voice
Produced by Ellie Lightfoot and Spencer FoxCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Expression

A sibling faces an unfair accusation of teen pop vandalism, an academic conducts a study into missing forks and three friends search for the right note. Josie Long presents short documentaries about small and petty victories.For Fork's Sake
Produced by Mike WilliamsGood Company
Produced by Jesse LawsonThe Gouging
Produced by Steven Jackson
Original music by Steven Jackson and Cue Shop, a music library and scoring co-opCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Small Victories

A writer discovers his digital double, the story behind a name and an erotic invitation - short documentaries about the intimate relationships between us. Presented by Josie Long.The Double
Written and read by Joe Dunthorne
A version of this story first appeared in the London Review of BooksIntimacy
Produced by Kristina LoringA Name That Sounds Pretty
Produced by Erisa ApantakuCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Intimacies

A vision of the city after dark through the eyes of a graffiti writer, a poem addressed to a piece of legislation and a glimpse of what it means to sell the pain in your life as art. Short autobiographical docs, adventures in sound and new forms where producers turn the microphone on themselves. Presented by Josie Long.Dear Section 28
Produced by Tash WalkerA406Catharsis
Produced by ScotteeCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Autobiography

Recurring dreams, tarot cards and a message from the universe - Josie Long presents short documentaries about symbols and signs.Look Cool Be Gay
Produced by Jesse Lawson and Sylwia OsieckaCall Me
Produced by Emily FinchThe Magician
Produced by Axel KacoutiéCurated by Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Symbols and Signs

A bike race in memory of a Hastings fisherman, the football match that will never happen again, and the highs and lows of a dance competition through the eyes of a child. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures on the journey to first place.The Cha-cha Champion
Featuring Emily, Marlene and Tomasz
Produced by Sam Stone
            
When Goss was God
Written and read by Juliet Jacques
                    
The Ascent                    
Featuring Gary Reid and Paul Joy
Produced by Jodie Taylor and Will DaviesProducer: Andrea Rangecroft
Curated by Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Competition

A charged summer, a garden blooms again, a silent room and the rumbling of lava - Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound which explore our mortality.A New Tense
Author: Brit Jensen
Sound: Martin Ožvold
Music: Kaj T. Jensen, Bjørg Siedelman Christensen and FagradsfjallBower
Produced by Phil SmithDragonfly
Featuring Rebecca Finkel
Produced by Alexandra SalmonCurated by Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Memento Mori

A car ride tumbles through grief, teenagers howl in the woods and a snapshot of a day's answering machines across America - Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures where all the action unfolds in the present.Church in the woods, Louisiana, USA at 6pm in April 2020
Produced by Mara LazerThe Balloon
Produced by Talia AugustidisAnimal Tracking Class
With Andrius Gaidamavičius 
Produced by Vaida Pilibaitytė
This recording was originally broadcast in the documentary Širdies formos pėdsakais (Heart Shaped Footprints)Thank you for Calling
Produced by Jules BradleyCurated by Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Scenes from a Life

Treetop antennas, a witness from history and a dialogue with a loudspeaker - Josie Long presents short radio docs and adventures in sound inspired by broadcasts into the ether. From the forests of North Carolina, USA to the city of Kyiv, Ukraine - two ham radio enthusiasts seek each other out and a voice from the past prompts a dialogue on listening between a rabbi and a radio producer.Treetop Radio
Featuring Volodymyr Gurtovy and Thomas Witherspoon
Produced by Cicely FellHere Comes Everybody
Extract from Shake Rattle Roll - originally made for New American Radio
Produced by Gregory Whitehead and Dan Lander
www.somewhere.orgMattie's Broadcast
Produced by Veronica Simmonds
Featuring music from Alphabet of Wrongdoing by Cantor/Composer/Vocalist Daniela GesundheitCurated by Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Radio

A therapeutic technique sits at the heart of an interview and the protagonist of a novel speaks back to its writer - Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures which experiment with form.Everything is Fine Forecast
Originally produced for the podcast Randomly Generated Thought
Written and performed by Ewan Cameron. 
Music and sound design by Ewan CameronLife Partners
Produced by Christina HardingeAfterword
Written and read by Bongani Kona
Sound design by Catherine BoulleCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

New Forms

As the light fades, Josie Long presents short documentaries about hovering on the edge of darkness. A poetic dialogue prompted by an eager moon and a wander through nature in the gloaming.Eager Moon
Produced by James T. Green and Ariana MartinezThe History of Night
Featuring Dr Andrew Flack 
Produced by Hunter CharltonEpilogue
Produced by Sean TowgoodCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Twilight Hours

An AI writes a Nicolas Cage film, a Matt Damon lookalike causes havoc and a story has its climax removed - Josie Long presents short action-driven documentaries and audio adventures.Matt Damon
Produced by Jesse Lawson and Arlie Adlington
Originally created for KCRW's 24 Hour Radio RaceNic O Las
Produced by Suzie McCarthyThe Juicy Part
Produced by Jess ShaneSweat
Feat. Laura BartonCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Action!

From a rhythm that weaves itself through memory to our relationship with deep time, Josie Long presents a countdown of numerically-inspired short documentaries.The Everywhen
Featuring Dave Johnston-Pitt and Sam Juparulla Wickman
Produced by Jaye KranzThe Yelling Birds of the Presidio
Featuring Jenny Phillips, who also shared the field recordings used to create this piece
Produced by Kalli Anderson and Kaija SiiralaCounting to Six
Accordion played by Kaveh Ghaffari, Tonbak by Farhad Asadi and Pedal Steel by Michael Eckert 
Produced by Arif MirbaghiCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Numbers

Josie Long, P.I. investigates a series of mysterious audio adventures and short documentaries including The Young Detective, The Case of the Disappearing Turtle and The Big Sleep (at 73).
          
The Missing Turtle
Featuring Diana and Oliva
Produced by Maria DønvangThe Young Detective
Featuring Hilde Lysiak
                    
You Will Die at 73                       
Featuring Hugh Clegg and Jamie Robinson
Directed by Hugh Clegg
Music composed by Mathilde Koechlin and Jamie Robinson
Sound Design by Carlos San Juan JuanchiProducer: Andrea Rangecroft
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Detectives

Josie Long presents audio adventures and short documentaries dedicated to our love for those around us - an invocation for creating new life, finding meaning in being stood up and decades spent hearing about, and helping, Britain's LGBTQ+ life.Alone
Produced by Noam OsbandThank you for being here
Featuring Switchboard volunteers past and present
Produced by Tash Walker and Adam Zmith
Originally from The Log Books podcast, produced by Tash, Adam and Shivani DaveAn Invocation for All Fertility Treatments
Accessing the Powers of the Universe: An Invocation for All Fertility Treatments is written and performed by Erica Gillingham
Co-produced by Erica Gillingham and Andrea RangecroftProducer: Andrea Rangecroft
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Devotion

Listening to the melodies in auctioneer school, reimagining the sound in your ears and a twilight audio-experience which takes you back in time. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures inspired by unusual sound worlds.The Auctioneer (Excerpt)
Originally produced by Ned Sublette for New American Radio
somewhere.orgAccompaniment for Ever-Present Sounds
Composed by Sami El-EnanyFlying Fox
Featuring Lawrence Pope
Produced by Thomas PhillipsPhoto credit: Doug GimesyCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Sound Effects

A wait of 33 years between a marriage proposal and a response, a skittish piano tries to avoid the stage and a young boy looks out to sea waiting for his father. Josie Long presents short documentaries and works of sound art about waiting, yearning and anxiously anticipating.Skittish Piano
Produced by Eleanor McDowallIsabel and Alf
Featuring Isabel Bader
Produced by Kalli Anderson 
Thank you to Isabel Bader, Ruth Clarke and Olivia Richardson.The Voice of the Sea
Feat.uring Abel Coentrão
Produced by Rebecca NolanCurated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

I Will Wait For You

Josie Long presents even shorter short documentaries and audio adventures in this episode built around miniature works of audio art.Our Shared Secrets
Written by Joe DunthorneGretchen Bender - Artificial Treatment. 1988. Recorded at Studio PASS. N.Y. by B. Hutchinson. 
Published on TELLUS, the Audio Cassette Magazine #21 - Audio by Visual Artists.Donegal Revisited
Produced by Phil SmithRedacted Mixtape
Produced by Erisa ApantakuDoomscroll
Produced by Axel KacoutiéA Breath of Fresh Air
Produced by Redzi Bernard and Phoebe McIndoeSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Shorter Cuts

As we reach the ten year anniversary of his death, Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures inspired by the worlds of Maurice Sendak.We're In The Den
Feat. Carol Doose, Evan Roberts and Sofia Beverley Turnham 
Produced by Phoebe McIndoeIn the Hard Rock Night Kitchen
Written and read by Tiffany Murray
Additional material Joan GrahamExtract from Terry Gross's interview with Maurice Sendak
Originally aired 20th September 2011 on Fresh Air from WHYYSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Where The Wild Things Are

Butterflies, rattlesnakes and feral chickens make their way through the short documentaries in Wildlife, as Josie Long presents audio adventures inspired by the natural world.I Dream of Rattlesnakes
Produced by Sam and Todd Wemmer
Voiceover work by Annabelle Wemmer
Winner of the Third Coast International Audio Festival Shortdocs ChallengeChicken Roundabout
Produced by Jake Lee-Savage
Additional audio of the Chicken Man supplied by Nicholas Jenkins of Sounding Board Productions from their collection Suffolk VoicesThe Magnolia Exist
Featuring Naja Marie Aidt
Produced by Nanna Hauge KristensenSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Wildlife

Clouds gather and rain begins to fall as Josie Long presents short documentaries about the weather. From a bird that emerges as a storm rolls across the sea from a writer's living experiment to get all her news from the weather report.Helicopter and Canoe
Produced by Kaija Siirala
Thank you to Kari Siirala, Bailey Renshaw, Maarit Siirala, Gord, Micah and Casey Smith for sharing their memories of the trip. Days Without Rain
Written and read by Laura BartonStorm Petrels
Featuring David Bensen and Dr. Bill Montevecchi 
Produced by Rebecca NolanSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Weather Report

Josie Long presents audio adventures and short documentaries on the words we use to express ourselves. An artist explores new ways to talk about pain, an activist tries to live authentically in a language that feels like it wasn’t made for them, and a son connects to his parents through an Urdu love poem.Makeshift
Featuring Laura Pejak
Produced by Nada Smiljanic and Jesse LawsonA fragment between two
Produced by Raheel Khan
Featuring Vada/ Promise - a poem by Rukhsana Nazi - from the collection Rutth Juggeh/The Night Awakes.
With thanks to Imtiaz Ahmed Qureshi from Intesaab Kahaani.Perceptions of Pain
Featuring Matilda Glen
Produced by Phoebe McIndoe and Redzi BernardProducer: Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

In Other Words

Returning to an old flame, a snapshot of a break-up and a cascade of crushes - Josie Long presents short romantic documentaries about falling in and out of love.Crushing
Produced by Erisa ApantakuWe've Only Just Begun
Featuring Ben Bryant and Elizabeth Hepburn
Produced by Olivia HumphreysSnapshot
Featuring Scottee and Brian Teeling
Produced by ScotteePhoto credit: Brian Teeling
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

The Lovers

The horror of renting, childhood pranks and being a woman online - Josie Long presents terrifying short documentaries and adventures in sound. Fictional horror stories begin to creep into a writer's real life as she finds herself followed across the internet by an anonymous poster. Two young women discover their perfect new rental property marred by one small flaw - a man secretly living in their basement. And three brothers do battle in a home filled with tales of ghost stories and the sound of old horror movies.Thump Thump Thump
Produced by Chris Attaway
A version of this story was first created for KCRW's 24 hour Radio RaceThe Brothers and the Banshees
Produced by Geoff BirdThe Antagonist
Written and read by Nikita Gill
Voiceover work by Tony Warmsley Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

The Horror!

Josie Long presents short festive documentaries about the night before Christmas.A joyful Christmas scene discovered on an old tape, a poet holds the beauty and melancholy of a trip home on Christmas Eve, and Albert Woodfox reflects on 40 years of enforced isolation and the illumination and comfort offered by a group of schoolchildren in Liverpool.Forwards and Backwards
Featuring The Djursland Fiddlers recorded by Torben Harbo in the 1970s.
Produced by Rikke HoudChristmas Eve
Written and read by Liz Berry
Produced by Alia CassamAlbert
Featuring Albert Woodfox and David Moorhead
Produced by Sarah CuddonCurated by Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
Executive Producer: Axel Kacoutié
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

The Night Before Christmas

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures on the days after a life-altering event and imagining better futures. Three children look for the memory of their father on a baseball field, a resettled community wonders where they belong to and the writer Lola Olufemi offers experiments for imagining an alternative world.Andromeda is a Baseball Diamond
Produced by Ariel MejiaResettlement
Featuring Geraldine Brown, Jeanette Brown, Linda Slade Byrne, Hana Deir and Cecil Penny. All took part in the Fisheries Household Resettlement Program in Placentia Bay. 
Produced by Rebecca NolanExperiments for the Day Before Yesterday’s Tomorrow
Featuring Lola Olufemi
Produced by Tej AdeleyeProgramme image taken by Marilyn Marsh, courtesy of the Marine History Archive.Curated by Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
Executive Producer: Axel Kacoutié
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

The Day After

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about how our sense of self collides with the world outside. Two Russian journalists find their lives turned inside out when they are classified as foreign agents, Keanu Reeves offers inspiration for one writer navigating his mixed-race identity, and a virtual world offers freedom and new possibilities for a man with Parkinson’s disease.Keanu Reeves 
Featuring Will Harris
Produced by Alia CassamHello, You're a Foreign Agent
Featuring Sonya Groysman and Olya Churakova
Produced by Mika Golubovsky and Charles MaynesA Second Life
Produced by Ellie Lightfoot and Gaby Caplan
Sound designed by Ellie LightfootCuratorial team: Andrea Rangecroft and Eleanor McDowall
Producer: Alia Cassam
Executive Producer: Axel Kacoutié
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Inside Out

Josie Long presents audio adventures and short documentaries about what’s gone before. A daughter’s decades-long search for her father who went missing as a political prisoner in South Africa, a poem by the German-American poet Lisel Mueller listing the parts that make up our memories, and the writer and comedian Heidi O’Loughlin untangles the stories woven into and around her Polynesian identity. Nombulelo Booi
Featuring Nombulelo Booi and Madeleine Fullard, with translation by Thenjiwe Kona.
Produced by Catherine Boulle and Bongani Kona
This piece is part of a larger, ongoing documentary project by Catherine and Bongani titled Time, Paper, Bone about the work of the Missing Persons Task Team, and the exhumation of James Booi’s remains. The project won the 2021 Whickers Radio and Audio Funding Award.Necessities
Written by Lisel Mueller
Read by Lisel Mueller and Studs Terkel and from a conversation originally broadcast in January 1987.
Courtesy of the Studs Terkel Radio ArchiveFrom the South Pacific
Written and read by Heidi O’LoughlinCuratorial team: Alia Cassam and Eleanor McDowall
Producer: Andrea Rangecroft
Executive Producer: Axel Kacoutié
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Past Tense

A writer wonders if she has been cursed by the comedian Stewart Lee, a man builds his home beside an active volcano, and the story of a clothes peg and it's strange, romantic power. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about luck, superstition and surrendering to chaos.Sandwiches 
Featuring Laura Barton and Stewart LeeKilauea
Featuring Gary Sleik
Produced by Thomas PhillipsLucky 7
Featuring Richard O'NeillPhoto credit: Gary Sleik ("Photo taken February 11, 2017 at 7: 48 a.m. about 7 km west of my home, on my morning walk to see where the lava was flowing on the surface. I was able to see these flows from my bed at night, more comfortable for me than most people I'm sure.")Curated by Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
Executive Producer: Axel Kacoutié
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Wheel of Fortune

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures on the colour red. A redhead in a crowd of redheads, exploring notes of red on the piano, and a nation’s relationship with the colour red. Roodharigendag (Redhead days)
Featuring Shelby Vittek
Produced by Gaby Caplan and Ellie LightfootThe Little Red Piano
Featuring Duncan Honeybourne 
Produced by Flora ZajicekOur home on native land
Produced by Kalli Anderson
The painting referred to in this feature is The Scream by Cree artist Kent Monkman. This piece includes short excerpts from news reports from the CBC, APTN News, CityNews, CTV, CP24, Global News and 680 News. It also includes the voices of Bob Paulson, Chief Allan Adam, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Cindy Blackstock. The music is Land Back by The Halluci Nation.Photo credit: Birgitta HoneybourneCurated by Alia Cassam and Eleanor McDowall
Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
Executive Producer: Axel Kacoutié
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Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about guiding lights and those who have gone before - from finding connection with someone whose last dance was over a century ago to one of the last people in the UK to have performed an old ritual.Breath is Life (extract)
Featuring Eileen Kramer
Produced by Eleanor McDowallYou belong to the land, and the land belongs to you
Featuring Alice Starmore
Interview and music by Col Gordon
Produced by Katie Revell
This interview originally appeared in the Farmerama series 'Landed'My Flamenco Ancestor
Produced by Yinka Esi Graves and Carys Wall
Inspired by the documentary Gurumbe: Afro-Andalusian Memories by Miguel Ángel RosalesCuratorial team: Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft  
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall  
Executive Producer: Axel Kacoutié 
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Elders

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about what remains hidden from view. A writer learns more than she would like about her lover's past conquests and a man wrestles with hyper-visibility as he walks home.Everything, Nothing
Featuring Laura BartonSurveillance
Produced by Derick Armah and Ivan d'AvoineInto Shadow
Featuring John Colverson
Produced by Phil SmithCuratorial team: Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
Executive Producer: Axel Kacoutié
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The Hidden Part

Short documentaries about repetition with Josie Long. 195 ways to thank someone for their letter, avoiding getting stuck in a thought loop and a tender exchange over breakfast.Thanks For Your Letter
Written and read by Joe DunthorneMeditation
Produced by Ellie Lightfoot and Miles Mercer Checking One's Levels
Produced by Talia AugustidisCuratorial team: Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft 
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall 
Executive Producer: Axel Kacoutié
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Repetition

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about finding tenderness. Conversations with cats, the sound of a piano drifts through the night and a memory of old, lost love.Cat Chat
Produced by Danny GreenwaldThe Piano
Produced by Sofia Saldanha
Originally made for Centro de Dramaturgia e Argumento (CeDA) and Antena 2Marianne
Marianne Ihlen interview recorded by Alan Hall 
Originally broadcast in the BBC Radio 4 documentary Leonard and Marianne 
Jan Christian Mollestad was talking on CBC's 'As It Happens' 
www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappensCuratorial team: Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft 
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall 
Executive Producer: Axel Kacoutié 
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Tenderness

Audio adventures and short documentaries about gaming, presented by Josie Long.  The joy and frustration of new adventures, fast cars and family days out at the M6 Southwaite Services, and finding love by the fountain in Dalaran.Go South
Produced by Mae-Li EvansPole Position
Featuring Steve, Alistair and Sandy Urquhart
Produced by Steve UrquhartMeet you at the fountain in Dalaran 
Featuring Michelle and Alberto NasoCuratorial team: Alia Cassam and Eleanor McDowall
Producer: Andrea Rangecroft
Executive Producer: Axel Kacoutié
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Video Games

Josie Long presents short documentaries about portals and gateways. A safe passage into the world, a scent which can take you somewhere else and a swim in the moonlight to heal a broken heart.Eider
Produced by Rikke HoudPortals
Featuring Courtney Rafuse
Produced by Aliya PabaniTo the Moon
Featuring Marta Medvesek
Produced by Marta Medvesek and Phoebe McIndoeCuratorial team: Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft 
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall 
Executive Producer: Axel Kacoutié
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Portals

Otherworldly encounters with a painting that comes to life, a surprise connection and a magical summoning... Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures inspired by the surreal worlds of the artist and writer Leonora Carrington, a decade on from her death.Leonora Carrington
Interviewed by John Silver (1992)
Archive courtesy of John SilverDown Below
Produced by Nanna Hauge KristensenPrim
Feat. Joanna Moorhead
Produced by Sarah CuddonA Summoning
Produced by Sami El-EnanyCuratorial team: Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft 
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall 
Executive Producer: Axel Kacoutié 
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Leonora Carrington

Josie Long presents short documentaries about illumination, the breaking of a new day, healing and hope.Light in the Winter Forest
Written and read by Anna Selby
First published in Field Notes (Hazel Press)Call Me Mother
Featuring Sandra Caldwell and Shon Faye
Produced by Thomas Curry
The original version of this interview was produced for the Call Me Mother podcast from the production company Novel.The Day of Flowers
Featuring Tamika Bell, Paulette Carrington, Starr Granger, Ivy Johnson, and Yvonne Newkirk 
Produced by Alex Lewis
This audio feature was based on a collaboration with artists Mark Strandquist and Courtney Bowles to create a monument for former long-term and life-sentenced women in the American prison system called “On The Day They Come Home”.   Curatorial team: Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
Executive Producer: Zakia Sewell
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

First Light

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about our connection to the land. The devastation of bushfires in south eastern Australia, the significance of the acorn for tribal members from the Konkow Nisenan Maidu Nations, and the storyteller Richard O’Neill on the stopping places woven into the British landscape.
 
Then came the birds
Featuring Alice Ansara
Produced by Sarah Mashman
Winner of the HearSay Audio Prize ‘Provoke’ Award 2021Our rocks are alive
Featuring Alicia Potts
Singing by Chanse Adams-Zavalla
Co-produced by Michelle Macklem, Alicia Potts and Zoe TennantListen to the land
Featuring Richard O’NeillPhoto credit: Tiffany AdamsProduction Team: Eleanor McDowall and Alia Cassam
Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
Executive Producer: Zakia Sewell
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Land

Audio adventures and short documentaries about music, presented by Josie Long. The soundtrack to an exploration of queerness, moments of transcendence in Indian classical music, and the folk singer Rowan Rheingans on her musical homage to a Dutch Jewish diarist. Etty
Featuring Rowan Rheingans
Produced by Alia CassamNada - On Being Sound
Featuring Pandit Uday Bhawalkar
With thanks to Romila Thapar, Arun Khopkar and the George Harrison family
Produced by HJ Radia Chasing a Meaning
Produced by Erisa ApantakuCuratorial team: Alia Cassam and Eleanor McDowall
Producer: Andrea Rangecroft
Executive Producer: Zakia Sewell
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Grace Notes

Josie Long presents magical short documentaries and audio adventures about illusions. From a series of magical failures to an illusion which helped steer someone safely home.Magic Mike
Produced by Mike WilliamsThird Man Factor
Produced by Olivia HumphreysSand
Produced by Ariel MejiaCuratorial Team: Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
Exec Producer: Zakia Sewell
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Smoke and Mirrors

Josie Long presents visceral short documentaries and audio adventures about - or made to engage - the senses. From the taste of a soup nearly lost to a storm, to a collective kiss in.Kiss
Featuring Ted Brown
Produced by Olivia HumphreysGow Gei
Produced by Jess Ho and Michelle MacklemRestless Texture
Featuring Ajay Chandra and Trish Cummings
Produced by Calum PerrinCuratorial team: Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
Executive Producer: Zakia Sewell
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Sensory

A hush descends as Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about silence. From an artwork that pulls sounds outside of the range of human hearing within it - vibrations in the soil, the sound of bats in Senegal caught on a supersonic microphone - to a story about the silence which lies between generations in a family.Winter Forest, Bala, Ontario on 2nd December 2020 
Recorded by Jess Shane
Originally featured on the Field Recordings podcastThe Inaudible Spectrum
Produced by Sami El-EnanyMokadi
Written and read by Sarah BaylisFour Thirty-Three with Aoife
Produced by Phil SmithCuratorial Team: Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
Exec Producer: Zakia Sewell
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Silence

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about looking for completion. A son who finishes his mother’s novel, a family returning to a sacred place and an exploration of a body as ‘an unfinished product’.Return to Iraq
Featuring Zohra Aly and Amina AlimohamedThe Four Corners of the Heart
Featuring Denis Westhoff
BBC Archive of Françoise Sagan, 1989
Produced by Hannah DeanPMHx
Written, sound designed, scored, and performed by James T. Green
A special thanks to C’ne Rohlsen, Axel Kacoutié, C.C. Paschal, Cher Vincent, Zakiya Gibbons, and Veralyn Williams for editorial and artistic guidance.Curatorial team: Eleanor McDowall
Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Unfinished

Short documentaries and adventures in sound about the colour blue, presented by Josie Long. From a view of the earth from space to an affinity with the ocean.A Blue Gem Below
Featuring Jessica Meir
Produced by Lauren Armstrong CarterThe Blue of Dover
Featuring Naji Ali
Produced by Hunter Charlton and Ben Tulloh
A version of this story first appeared on the SwimOut podcastAlmost Blue
Featuring Laura BartonCuratorial team: Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

The Blue of Distance

Short documentaries and adventures in sound about artworks and artists, presented by Josie Long. From an audio re-imagining of Bridget Riley to the work of a courtroom sketch artist.The Mandjet
A response to Shih-Li by Bridget Riley
Produced by Sami El-EnanyAdipositivity Project
Featuring Substantia Jones
Produced by Ellie Lightfoot with sound design by Miles MercerDrawing From The Gallery
Featuring Priscilla Coleman
Produced by Ben Tulloh and Hunter CharltonA Model Life
Featuring Sue Tilley
Produced by Alan Hall
This interview was originally broadcast as part of the documentary Art Values in BBC Radio 3's Between the EarsCuratorial team: Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

The Gallery

Short documentaries and adventures in sound which take place under the light of the moon, presented by Josie Long. From a night swim across a freezing cold lake to the writer Courttia Newland on astral projection.Home In Darkness 
Featuring Courttia Newland
Produced by Phoebe McIndoe and Redzi BernardThe Night Swimmer
Featuring the voice of Marilyn Korzekwa and the sounds of Lake Superior 
Produced by Kalli Anderson and Kaija Siirala
Music: By Micah Smith, Jordy Walker and Off WorldRe: The Moon
Written and produced by Ross Sutherland
Originally made for Imaginary AdviceProduction team: Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4