By BBC Radio 4
Short documentaries and adventures in sound presented by Josie Long.
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....
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 Mills Drawn Onward Produced by Alan Goffinski and Sarita Bhatt Music, Mix and...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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 Heydari àlá lo lá (You Dreamed a Dream) Produced by...
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 Jokiranta A Moonlit Memory Featuring Salma Ahmed Caller Sounds from YleArkisto, reinsamba, Benboncan, Julius_galla, Straget, FaireDesVagues and...
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...
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 Bradley Circulation Field Recordings from InspectorJ, Zimbot, Dobroide, Tosha73...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
Memories, love and snot. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures exploring the labyrinth of fatherhood. An Occasion for Tears Produced by Mike Williams In Third Person (For my son) Written and read by Raymond Antrobus Are You Here? Produced by Axel...
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 Gough Al...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 Osiecka Call Me Produced by Emily Finch The Magician Produced by Axel Kacoutié...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 Kranz The Yelling Birds of the Presidio Featuring...
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...
