Case ########-29

Considerations of governmental oversight.

Recorded by The Archivist in Situ.

Content warnings:

• Arguments
• Scopophobia
• Mass suffering
• Poverty & Food insufficiency
• Guilt   
• Political expediency
• Mentions of: Blood, self-inflicted wounds, physical violence, cults. coughing, yelling

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Edited this week by Nico Vettese, Elizabeth Moffatt, Brock Winstead & Alexander J Newall

Written by Jonathan Sims and directed by Alexander J Newall

Produced by Lowri Ann Davies

Sensitivity consultation by Alexander Linde Nielsen

Performances:

- "The Archivist" - Jonathan Sims

- "Martin Blackwood" - Alexander J. Newall

- "Melanie King" - Lydia Nicholas

- "Georgie Barker" - Sasha Sienna

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Music 

- Great One Step by the Victor Dance Orchestra, approx 1906-1910, available from the Free Music Archive:

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Victor_Dance_Orchestra/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_01192016/The_Great_One_Step_Victor_Dance_Orchestera

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