Josie Long presents even shorter short documentaries and audio adventures in this episode built around miniature works of audio art.

Our Shared Secrets

Gretchen Bender - Artificial Treatment. 1988. Recorded at Studio PASS. N.Y. by B. Hutchinson.

Donegal Revisited

Redacted Mixtape

Doomscroll

A Breath of Fresh Air

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

As we reach the ten year anniversary of his death, Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures inspired by the worlds of Maurice Sendak.

We're In The Den

In the Hard Rock Night Kitchen

Extract from Terry Gross's interview with Maurice Sendak

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

Butterflies, rattlesnakes and feral chickens make their way through the short documentaries in Wildlife, as Josie Long presents audio adventures inspired by the natural world.

I Dream of Rattlesnakes

Chicken Roundabout

The Magnolia Exist

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

Clouds gather and rain begins to fall as Josie Long presents short documentaries about the weather. From a bird that emerges as a storm rolls across the sea from a writer's living experiment to get all her news from the weather report.

Helicopter and Canoe

Days Without Rain

Storm Petrels

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

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