This is the 15-minute feature that I produced for the Creative Radio strand of my MA programme at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Marcel Proust’s novel ‘In Search of Lost Time’ famously describes a universal experience – that involuntary rush of memory when we eat or drink a certain thing. For the narrator of that novel it was a Madeleine cake, and in this documentary we hear from a psychologist, a food writer and two young women as they explore the phenomenon of the Madeleine Moment.
Many thanks to Hatt Reiss, Sarah Giaziri, Simon Parkes and John Morton for talking to me about food, memory and everything in between.
On the day of an epic radio fail, here’s a reminder that I can also do a radio win…
This is the 10-minute feature that I produced for the Creative Radio strand of my MA programme at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
A little introduction: from Elgar to Bach, from pop to Klezmer: all have explored the beautiful and unique sound of the cello. In this montage-style documentary, two professional cellists reflect on sound, music, and their own personal relationship with this extraordinary instrument.
Many thanks to Francesca Ter-Berg and Matthew Forbes for lending their dulcet tones to the piece – and also to Arthur Russell and Edward Elgar for their beautiful music.
The slideshow is available to watch online here, but unfortunately due to some technical issues the image quality is not the best it could be, so I’d suggest that it’s best viewed off full-screen mode.
The photographs and audio are courtesy of the very talented Jane Labous.
This is the 5-minute feature that I made for the Creative Radio strand of my MA programme at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
The piece features two anonymous people talking about their experience of counselling, and also includes quotations from Carl R. Rogers, the founding father of counselling, and the song ‘We Have a Map of the Piano’ by Icelandic band múm.
Extracts from this piece were featured on the BBC Radio 4 programme Short Cuts in January 2012.
Excerpts from a 5-minute feature I made last year were featured on the third instalment of new BBC Radio 4 programme Shorts Cutstoday. You can listen to it on BBC iPlayer until Tuesday 31st January, and I will put up the whole feature here very soon.
Interview with American Bluegrass musician Abigail Washburn, conducted in a noisy teahouse in Chengdu, December 2009 – and the first piece of audio I ever edited!
