The Lonely Voice

'I always thought it was a mistake, calling you Hamlet. I mean, what kind of name is that for a young boy?'

Music: Henry Mancini, 'Royal Blue' (from The Pink Panther)

'We forever live in the dreams of the next generation'.

Music: Super Simple Songs, 'Row Row Row Your Boat'; The Hit Co., 'Life is but a Dream (Instrumental Version)'; The Harptones, 'Life is but a Dream'

Sound FX: Freesound.org

'When you arrive in the afterlife, you find that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley sits on a throne'.

Music: Max Richter, 'Shadow Journal' from The Blue Notebooks

Sound FX: Freesound.org

In the afterlife, you learn about the importance of being quiet.

Sound art: The Quiet Club, Mirror Walk in the Long Grass

Sound FX: freesound.org, Emma Welton

'In the afterlife, you are treated to a generous opportunity: you can choose whatever you would like to be in the next life'.

Music: Gabriel Fauré, Pavane (performed by Riley Lee and Marshall McGuire); Robbie Harris, 'Bodhrán Solo'

Sound FX: Freesound.org

'At some point, it dawns on you that this is the afterlife: the world is only made up of people you’ve met before'.

Music: Philip Glass, 'Anthem -- Part II', 'Raising the Sail', & 'Dreaming of Fiji' from The Truman Show

Sound FX: Freesound.org

'We can consider ourselves lucky that in death we answer to a God with deep sensitivity to the byzantine hearts of Her creations'.

Music: Spindle Ensemble, 'Inkling' & 'Chase'

Sound FX: Freesound.org

'In the afterlife you relive all your experiences, but this time with the events reshuffled into a new order: all the moments that share a quality are grouped together'.

Music: Kevin MacLeod, 'Amazing Plan' & 'Batty McFaddin' from Silent Film Score Compilation -- The Old Times

Sound FX: freesound.org

On the shortest day of the year, a man makes his way to his old family home and kindles the ghosts of the past.

Music: Flook, 'Lalabee/Jig for Simon'; excerpts from Erland Cooper, Folded Landscapes (performed by Scottish Ensemble); Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau, 'Tabhair Dom do Lámh', Edmund Finnis, ⁠Elsewhere⁠ (featuring Daniel Pioro, violin)

Sound FX: freesound.org

'The light of madness, of piercing visions, illumined the nocturnal world...'

Music: Edmund Finnis, Elsewhere (featuring Daniel Pioro, violin); Gabriel Fauré, 'Après un rève' (sung by Sabine Devieilhe); Michael Gordon, Weather (I) (performed by Manchester Collective); John Barry, Eternal Echoes and The Beyondness of Things (performed by English Chamber Orchestra)

Sound FX: freesound.org