Programming a stand up comedian, learning to challenge ideas of perfectionism through tending a garden, and poems looking towards a more empathetic future. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures exploring our visions of the future.

S.E.I.N.F.E.L.D.

Learning/Unlearning

The Missing

Production Team: Eleanor McDowall and Alia Cassam

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about hinterlands - areas lying beyond what is visible or known. From how to read the dangers and possibilities of public space to the space you might inhabit after you die.

When You're Gone, You're Gone (extract)

Jarman's Garden

Cruising

When You're Gone, You're Gone (extract 2)

Production team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about leaving places behind. From zip wiring over the Iron Curtain, to reflecting on lost connections with your country of origin and a poem remembering the thousands of people lost to the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Zip Wire

half / half

Seed of the Fruit

Production Team: Eleanor McDowall and Alia Cassam

Short documentaries and adventures in sound about quiz shows and queries for an uncertain future. Presented by Josie Long.

Google Oracle

The $64,000 Question

The Interview

Production team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam

Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound inspired by Virginia Woolf's idea of Moments of Being.

"I find that scene making is my natural way of marking the past. Always a scene has arranged itself: representative; enduring. This confirms me in my instinctive notion (it will not bear arguing about; it is irrational) the sensation that we are sealed vessels afloat on what it is convenient to call reality; and at some moments, the sealing matter cracks; in floods reality; that is, these scenes - for why do they survive undamaged year after year unless they are made of something comparatively permanent?"

Waves

How It Felt

The Fear

28 hours

Production team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam

From a tender dance and the absence of a lover to the music a tongue makes as it touches the inside of your mouth - Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about the sensation of touch.

Hard To Say

Tongue Tied

REGARDS TOP UP YOUR OWN ARTWORK FOR

Language is Born of Absence

Production team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam

Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about remixing and reinventing the world.

Jonathan Zenti builds something new from undelivered audio projects, Scottee's grandad becomes an emerging artist and we hear reimagined whale song.

* Porn Whales

* Apology Letter

* No Need to Shout

* The Toilets at Home Are All Gender Neutral

Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam

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

Lying on your back and gazing at the stars in Australia, viewing the world through the eyes of a little dog and venturing outside your home - Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about the outside world.

Emu in the Sky

Paws for Thought (featuring Little Oblong)

The Outside

Production team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam

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

Josie Long presents short documentaries about the writers and musicians whose words help us navigate the difficult moments in our lives.

From James Baldwin to Adrienne Rich, the lyrics of Jimmie Rodgers to a new poem by Axel Kacoutié.

* James Baldwin in conversation with Studs Terkel

* For george, breonna, ahmaud, and christian

* Dedications

* The Watertank

* You Got Through the Day

Production team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam

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

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures with and about kids.

Exploring the world through the eyes of a little boy, beauty pageants for children, a weather forecast takeover and finding a newborn on the subway.

*Let’s Get Lost Together

Featuring Eligh Moon

*Beauty Queen Dropout

Featuring Samara Addai

*The Random Weather Report

Featuring Niamh and Tommy

*Bundle on the Subway

Featuring Pete Mercurio and Danny Stewart

Produced by Andrea Rangecroft

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