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Telling Tales: Cathy FitzGerald

Cathy FitzGerald

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Telling Tales, Cathy FitzGerald

Lessons and stories in sound from the award-winning producer Cathy FitzGerald.

This week’s guest is a writer and producer who has made many award-winning features for the BBC. 

Cathy FitzGerald’s storytelling is rich in sound and, over the years, she’s taken listeners on a magic carpet ride, out and about on the streets of modern day London with Charles Dickens, and invited us to look in the mirror and up at the sky.

We hear highlights from Cathy's career, including Little Volcanoes, a series of intimate conversations recorded with the patients and staff of Pilgrims Hospice, Margate, back in 2013. 

There are extracts from two other BBC documentaries, both made by Cathy's White Stiletto production company: 2017's Little Shop Of Colours for Radio 4 and 2015's Burn Slush! The Reindeer Grand Prix for the BBC World Service. 

We head up into the sky with a paraglider, in Skylarking, a memorable moment from Radio 3's Between The Ears in 2014 which was produced with Matt Thompson and features original music by Joe Acheson.

Finally, we hear about Strange & Charmed, Cathy's school for for people who tell stories in sound. 

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