Josie Long hears stories of heartbreak. Difficult love, women encoded in music and rebuilding yourself after you've been broken.

Laura Barton offers a tender exploration of complex, enduring love, Natalie Kestecher rebuilds herself after a sudden shock and we dive into the sound of heartache.

Tough Love

Twenty-Three

Kintsugi Dog

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

Josie Long hears stories of duets, the perfect conversational dance and gatecrashing honeymoons. She also talks to the other half of her long-running comedy partnership - Robin Ince.

The poet John Osborne delves into late night radio phone in conversations, the artist Duncan Speakman invites the listener to engage in a duet and Phil Smith intrudes on a romantic moment.

Towards

A Duet for Here and There

Late Night Radio Phone In

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in August 2017.

A memory caught in a childhood drawing and a repeat encounter which offers hope at a point of despair - Josie Long explores the afterimage left by moments that touch us.

We hear from Sion Jair who climbs mountains as a way to cope with disappearing memories. Sophie Townsend finds an image from her daughter's childhood, which captures a difficult moment from their past. And Dylan Park, five years after his first deployment to Iraq, finds an unexpected reminder of his first tour in Arizona.

Brahim

Mr Fix-It

Mountains

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in August 2017.

Josie Long hears stories of bearing witness - from glimpsing the moment a parent changes to escaping a violent storm.

Witness

Tornado

Scaffold

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in June 2017.

Josie Long hears stories of our desire to pause - from dismantling a house which seems stopped in time to the difficulties of watching your child grow up.

The House by the Creek

Pony

Private Black Motherhood and Public White Protest

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in June 2017.

Defiantly staring down neo-Nazis, unwanted family portraits and a photographer searching for his subject years later - Josie Long presents new short documentaries inspired by images.

Woman in the Photo

Resistance

Family Portrait

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in June 2017.

(Photo credit: Nathan Edwards/News Corp Australia)

Josie Long presents documentaries where reality takes on a magical aspect - tales of snake-filled American towns, a visit to a shaman and of crashing back down to earth.

The Curve of the Earth

The Shaman

Snake Pit, Waurika

Magical Realism

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in May 2017.

Personality tests, tests of character and knowing how to cheat. Josie Long presents stories of people testing their mettle.

The writers Ross Sutherland and Joe Dunthorne examine the Sutherland-Dunthorne luck index to see why one's success seems to mean the other's failure. James Acaster embarks on a quest in search of connection and oversized novelty letters, and we hear the story of two men who knew how to deceive the people examining them.

The Wow Scenario

Project Alpha

The Sutherland-Dunthorne Inverse Proportional Luck Index

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in May 2017.

Josie Long presents stories of messages sent across borders. Unsent postcards, a last message and the journey for home.

An old handwritten note, in pursuit of a woman who ran away, leads to a town submerged in water; the writer Laura Barton discovers a tranche of muted, unsent missives in a storage box; and we hear the voices of those who are far from home.

Dear Martha

Envision Yourself a Free Man

A Very Different Time

Unsent

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

"We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is."

Josie Long presents short documentaries and radio adventures in the spirit of Kurt Vonnegut, shortly before the tenth anniversary of his death - from peculiar travel suggestions to the kindness contained in a library. The writer Joe Dunthorne also engages Vonnegut in a dialogue, inspired by God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian.

We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.

Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God

Reporter on the Afterlife

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

AFalling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in March 2017.