My Father Fading Out. Poet Ken Smith attempts to capture the inaudible sound of his dead father in a series of prose narrations and poems. Drawing on his memories of the few things his father told him and his investigations into his family's background in Ireland, Ken Smith has made recordings in a variety of locations, accumulating sounds and noises of all kinds, to which jazz trumpeter Geoff Nichols has composed a blues accompaniment.' Producer Tim Dee