Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about dreaming and the imagination.

Dive into an astronaut's dreamscape, take an audio drawing lesson with Ebony Flowers and listen to Ursula Le Guin explore world-building.

The Astronaut's Dream

Feat. Helen Sharman

Self Portrait in Outer Space

Feat. Ebony Flowers

Ursula Le Guin

Interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour

Evin and Ian

Produced by Georgia Moodie

Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam

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

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about the sea.

The sounds of the sea, whispers into a wind phone and the dark, silent nights in Lyø, Denmark; a writer reflects on women dreaming of diving beneath the surface of the water; an Hawaiian surfer describes the exhilaration of riding through the barrel of a wave and stories from cliff-edge towns in the UK as the water comes ever-closer.

The Wave

The Widow of the Sea

Dreaming

The View from the Edge

Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

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

Short documentaries about telling stories with Josie Long.

A subject feedbacks back to her documentarian, a voicemail tells a story and the writer Ross Sutherland wonders how storytelling advice could save a relationship in trouble.

Nicola Talkback

Easiness

Marriage Story

Production Team: Eleanor McDowall and Alia Cassam

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

Growing up in a changing landscape, communicating disaster through a language barrier, a sonic illustration of the world’s dwindling animal populations and finding hope outside our windows. Josie Long presents short documentaries on the climate crisis.

Smoke Signals

Hearing Extinction

Mother Earth

Terrace, Rome, Italy during the lockdown

Production Team: Eleanor McDowall and Alia Cassam

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

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, a cryptic crossword, personal ads and the work of Dylan Thomas inspire new short documentaries and adventures in sound presented by Josie Long.

Poem for October

Slow Burn Seeking

Maslow

Relics

Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam

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

Wrong numbers that make the right connections and the comforting voices of strangers - Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about phones.

Monitoring

The Phoneline

Please Hold

A 6 instead of a 9

Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam

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

Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound inspired by the tarot deck.

From an imagined reading with Madame Cinnamon Black in New Orleans to a card that helps two sisters understand each other.

Sylvia Plath and the Tarot Pack

Shadow Work

Three Cards

Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam

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

Josie Long presents toe-tapping, choreographed short documentaries offering three adventures in sound about dancing.

From falling in love with movement - to the art of staying still.

Vogue

Screen Test

It's a Commitment (Extract)

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

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

Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about feats of endurance.

A marathon runner needs to outrun a race official who wants her off the track, a woman exhausts herself while running through the personal ads and a writer living in the shadow of a nuclear reactor finds unlikely companionship with cockroaches.

Endurance

Mr Right

Runner 261

Isn't it lovely?

Kathrine Switzer photo credit - Boston Herald

Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

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

A 6 year old takes a rather un-childlike view on the realities of Santa Claus, Icelandic Christmas characters creep out of the darkness, Scottee tells the story of a loving gift that travelled across countries and generations and the festive season bursts into song. Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound (for grown-ups) on Christmas Eve.

I Don't Know

Out of the Dark

Nativity

The Night Before the Night Before Christmas (Reprise)

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall