Short Cuts

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

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about what remains hidden from view. A writer learns more than she would like about her lover's past conquests and a man wrestles with hyper-visibility as he walks home.

Everything, Nothing

Surveillance

Into Shadow

Curatorial team: Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft

Short documentaries about repetition with Josie Long. 195 ways to thank someone for their letter, avoiding getting stuck in a thought loop and a tender exchange over breakfast.

Thanks For Your Letter

Meditation

Checking One's Levels

Curatorial team: Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about finding tenderness. Conversations with cats, the sound of a piano drifts through the night and a memory of old, lost love.

Cat Chat

The Piano

Marianne

Curatorial team: Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft

Audio adventures and short documentaries about gaming, presented by Josie Long. The joy and frustration of new adventures, fast cars and family days out at the M6 Southwaite Services, and finding love by the fountain in Dalaran.

Go South

Pole Position

Meet you at the fountain in Dalaran

Curatorial team: Alia Cassam and Eleanor McDowall

Josie Long presents short documentaries about portals and gateways. A safe passage into the world, a scent which can take you somewhere else and a swim in the moonlight to heal a broken heart.

Eider

Portals

To the Moon

Curatorial team: Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft

Otherworldly encounters with a painting that comes to life, a surprise connection and a magical summoning... Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures inspired by the surreal worlds of the artist and writer Leonora Carrington, a decade on from her death.

Leonora Carrington

Down Below

Prim

A Summoning

Curatorial team: Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft