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The Lonely Voice episodes
- #41: 'The Mice' by Lydia Davis
'Mice live in our walls, but do not trouble our kitchen'.
Music: Johann Strauss, Pizzicato Polka (performed by Philadelphia Orchestra)
4 min - #40: 'From the Point of View of a Cat' by Karel ČapekA cat observes its master.Music: Thomas Bloch, Sweet Suite (II. 'A Name' & III. 'Item'); Olivier Messiaen, Feuillet inedit No. 4 (performed by Thomas Bloch)Sound FX: from freesound.org8 min
- #39: 'Wildflowers' by Billy O'Callaghan
A man reflects on his life on a summer evening.
Music: Clannad, 'A Gentle Place' (from Banba), 'Lady Marion' & 'Now is Here' (from Legend), and incidental music from Robin of Sherwood (series 3)Sound FX: from freesound.org
36 min - #38: 'Happy Endings' by Margaret Atwood
'John and Mary meet. What happens next?'
Music: Extracts from Jacques Loussier, The Best of Play Bach
16 min - #37: 'Widows' by Margaret Atwood
A widow writes a letter to a younger correspondent.
Music: Penguin Cafe Orchestra 'Nothing Really Blue', 'Hugebaby', 'Zopf: Milk'; John Cage 'In a Landscape'
22 min - #36: 'One Evening' by Samuel Beckett'She may say to herself it is too much strangeness for a single March or April evening'.Music: Richard Chartier, How Things Change & series 01; John Cage, The Perilous Night (III)9 min
- #35: 'The Hand' by Guy de Maupassant
A tale of a severed hand, and the man who severed it.
Music: Joseph Haydn, String Quartet No. 18 (I) (performed by the Kodály Quartet); Gerald Fried, 'Amok Time Suite' (Star Trek)21 min - #34: 'A Vendetta' by Guy de Maupassant
An old woman seeks revenge for the death of her son.
Music: E. Neff, 'A View to an Improvisation'; 'Arú' (featuring Germán Díaz), from unrecalled17 min - #33: 'Signs and Symbols' by Vladimir NabokovA mother and father fret about their son, who lives in his own mad world.Music: Excerpts from Quartet for the End of Time by Olivier Messiaen; Brian Ferneyhough, Time and Motion Study II; Paul Whiteman, 'My Blue Heaven'25 min
- #32: 'Christmas' by Vladimir NabokovA father mourns his son on Christmas Eve.Music: Ryuichi Sakamoto, '20220123', '20220207', '20220304' from 12; John Tavener, The Protecting Veil (I) (performed by Yo-Yo Ma and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra)30 min
About The Lonely Voice
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Short stories, with music and sound effects.
"There is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in a novel – an intense awareness of human loneliness" (Frank O'Connor, The Lonely Voice, 1962).