Josie Long presents audio adventures and short documentaries on the words we use to express ourselves. An artist explores new ways to talk about pain, an activist tries to live authentically in a language that feels like it wasn’t made for them, and a son connects to his parents through an Urdu love poem.

Makeshift

A fragment between two

Perceptions of Pain

Producer: Andrea Rangecroft

Returning to an old flame, a snapshot of a break-up and a cascade of crushes - Josie Long presents short romantic documentaries about falling in and out of love.

Crushing

We've Only Just Begun

Snapshot

Photo credit: Brian Teeling

The horror of renting, childhood pranks and being a woman online - Josie Long presents terrifying short documentaries and adventures in sound.

Fictional horror stories begin to creep into a writer's real life as she finds herself followed across the internet by an anonymous poster. Two young women discover their perfect new rental property marred by one small flaw - a man secretly living in their basement. And three brothers do battle in a home filled with tales of ghost stories and the sound of old horror movies.

Thump Thump Thump

The Brothers and the Banshees

The Antagonist

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

Josie Long presents short festive documentaries about the night before Christmas.

A joyful Christmas scene discovered on an old tape, a poet holds the beauty and melancholy of a trip home on Christmas Eve, and Albert Woodfox reflects on 40 years of enforced isolation and the illumination and comfort offered by a group of schoolchildren in Liverpool.

Forwards and Backwards

Christmas Eve

Albert

Curated by Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures on the days after a life-altering event and imagining better futures.

Three children look for the memory of their father on a baseball field, a resettled community wonders where they belong to and the writer Lola Olufemi offers experiments for imagining an alternative world.

Andromeda is a Baseball Diamond

Resettlement

Experiments for the Day Before Yesterday’s Tomorrow

Programme image taken by Marilyn Marsh, courtesy of the Marine History Archive.

Curated by Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about how our sense of self collides with the world outside.

Two Russian journalists find their lives turned inside out when they are classified as foreign agents, Keanu Reeves offers inspiration for one writer navigating his mixed-race identity, and a virtual world offers freedom and new possibilities for a man with Parkinson’s disease.

Keanu Reeves

Hello, You're a Foreign Agent

A Second Life

Curatorial team: Andrea Rangecroft and Eleanor McDowall

Josie Long presents audio adventures and short documentaries about what’s gone before. A daughter’s decades-long search for her father who went missing as a political prisoner in South Africa, a poem by the German-American poet Lisel Mueller listing the parts that make up our memories, and the writer and comedian Heidi O’Loughlin untangles the stories woven into and around her Polynesian identity.

Nombulelo Booi

Necessities

From the South Pacific

Curatorial team: Alia Cassam and Eleanor McDowall

A writer wonders if she has been cursed by the comedian Stewart Lee, a man builds his home beside an active volcano, and the story of a clothes peg and it's strange, romantic power.

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about luck, superstition and surrendering to chaos.

Sandwiches

Kilauea

Lucky 7

Photo credit: Gary Sleik ("Photo taken February 11, 2017 at 7: 48 a.m. about 7 km west of my home, on my morning walk to see where the lava was flowing on the surface. I was able to see these flows from my bed at night, more comfortable for me than most people I'm sure.")

Curated by Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures on the colour red. A redhead in a crowd of redheads, exploring notes of red on the piano, and a nation’s relationship with the colour red.

Roodharigendag (Redhead days)

The Little Red Piano

Our home on native land

Photo credit: Birgitta Honeybourne

Curated by Alia Cassam and Eleanor McDowall

Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about guiding lights and those who have gone before - from finding connection with someone whose last dance was over a century ago to one of the last people in the UK to have performed an old ritual.

Breath is Life (extract)

You belong to the land, and the land belongs to you

My Flamenco Ancestor

Curatorial team: Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft