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Short documentaries with Josie Long about our connection to the landscape.

Short documentaries and adventures in sound with Josie Long about our connection to the landscape.

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about our connection to the land. The devastation of bushfires in south eastern Australia, the significance of the acorn for tribal members from the Konkow Nisenan Maidu Nations, and the storyteller Richard O’Neill on the stopping places woven into the British landscape.
 
Then came the birds
Featuring Alice Ansara
Produced by Sarah Mashman
Winner of the HearSay Audio Prize ‘Provoke’ Award 2021

Our rocks are alive
Featuring Alicia Potts
Singing by Chanse Adams-Zavalla
Co-produced by Michelle Macklem, Alicia Potts and Zoe Tennant

Listen to the land
Featuring Richard O’Neill

Photo credit: Tiffany Adams

Production Team: Eleanor McDowall and Alia Cassam
Produced by Andrea Rangecroft
Executive Producer: Zakia Sewell
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

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