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

Gow Gei

Restless Texture

Curatorial team: Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft

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

The Inaudible Spectrum

Mokadi

Four Thirty-Three with Aoife

Curatorial Team: Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft

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

The Four Corners of the Heart

PMHx

Curatorial team: Eleanor McDowall

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

The Blue of Dover

Almost Blue

Curatorial team: Andrea Rangecroft

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

Adipositivity Project

Drawing From The Gallery

A Model Life

Curatorial team: Andrea Rangecroft

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

The Night Swimmer

Re: The Moon

Production team: Andrea Rangecroft

Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about mothers and motherhood.

We hear a story of a recurrent dream about searching for an absent mother, Heather O'Neill delves into the ways her mother and her own experience of motherhood have threaded through her life, and the writer Nikesh Shukla reflects on ways to remember a mother you've lost.

Fragments Of My Mother

Motherhood, a short story

Call Me Mother

Mother, Unknown

Production team: Andrea Rangecroft

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about letter writing - Mother’s Day cards travelling thousands of miles home, love letters that are cherished, hidden and lost, and a one-way correspondence bringing comfort during chemotherapy.

You Go First

Ursula Bloom speaking to Jack Singleton

From Me To You

Production Team: Eleanor McDowall

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures that centre around acts of love - from the story of Ruth Coker Burks, who became a loving caretaker for hundreds of men during the AIDS epidemic, to the poet Nikita Gill's look at a love which ended in its beginning.

Jewels from the Sun

The Last Act

Comet Dust

Production team: Andrea Rangecroft

Cold-calling Santa Claus, family gatherings and a solo tradition for the 25th December - Josie Long presents festive short documentaries.

Santa Clauses

Merry Christmas Grandad

Christmas at the Movies

Production team: Andrea Rangecroft

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2020.