Short Cuts

Hereafter

02.13.2024 - By BBC Radio 4Play

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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 Carty

Special thanks to Alexander Powell, Carmen Johnson, Natalia Downer, Kandice Thompson and Jean Smart. All my friends are turning into Stars

Written and performed by David Amber Devereux

With Dr Matthew Temple, Research Fellow,

Universidad Diego Portales

Additional voices by Lou Sutcliffe and Alessa Catterall

Featuring quotes from De Profundus by Oscar Wilde, Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, and In A Queer Time And Place by Jack Halberstam Interjections on the future: There is not currently any obvious path to reconstructing a popular faith in political, economic and even some social institutions but while it might not always feel like it today, the unwinding of colonial modernity is underway and accelerating.

Produced by composer and researcher, Sara Rahman.

Featuring psychiatrist Isabel Valli and writers and artists Fer Boyd and Maedeline Stack. Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft

Produced by Axel Kacoutié

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

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