Episodes

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0101Rip Off2010042720121115 (BBC7)
20130923 (BBC7)
20130924 (BBC7)
By Rachel Bentham. An accidental career criminal comes across an old ticket machine.

Series of three short stories by Bristol-based writers.

0102The Boys In Black2010042820121116 (BBC7)
20130924 (BBC7)
20130925 (BBC7)
By Sheila Hannon. Sheila's extraordinary encounter seems to make time stand still.

Series of three short stories by Bristol-based writers.

0103Hidden Depths2010042920121119 (BBC7)
20130925 (BBC7)
20130926 (BBC7)
By Dann Casswell. Three friends take a subterranean canoe trip at 3am beneath Bristol.

Series of three short stories by Bristol-based writers.

0201Birdsong Man2012040620160817 (BBC7)
20150711 (R4)
In the first of a series of specially commissioned sound stories from the More Than Words Festival in Bristol, Paul Mundell reads Birdsong Man by Timothy X Atack. Every morning, out in the forest, an hour before dawn, Birdsong Man fixes microphones to the trees and in between the rocks. And every night, in the lonely hours, he gets a phone call asking for his progress. Who are the recordings for, and why has he been asked to make them?

Timothy X Atack is a scriptwriter, film director and musician who makes fictions for stage, screen, audio and installation in which music and sound are integral to the storytelling. He's in a band called Angel Tech and is co-founder of performance group Sleepdogs.

Producer: Sara Davies.

Every morning in the forest Birdsong Man fixes microphones to the trees.

Series of innovative sound stories by Bristol-based writers

0202Reality Check2012041320150718
20160818
Tania Hershman's three short pieces of flash fiction commissioned for the More Than Words Festival in Bristol are linked by the theme of science. A professor confronts a childhood ghost during a storm at sea; a scientist is visited in the lab by a character from fiction; and a group of biochemists find themselves the life and soul of a party.

Tania Hershman writes short stories, poetry and flash fiction, is writer in residence at the Science Faculty at Bristol University and has a second short story collection, My Mother Was An Upright Piano: Fictions coming out shortly.

Producer: Sara Davies.

Three short pieces of flash-fiction by Tania Hershman linked by the theme of science.

Series of innovative sound stories by Bristol-based writers

0203Hood2012042020160819 (BBC7)
20150725 (R4)
A man walks through the city late at night. He hears footsteps, sees a figure behind him. It's dark, he's alone, and there's only one way this can end. Edson Burton has written a gripping, atmospheric story that explores the power of sound to drive the imagination.

Edson Burton is a poet, playwright, performer, storyteller and historian who has written five plays for BBC radio. Last Autumn a theatrical staging of his first poetry collection, Seasoned, opened in Bristol on the same night as his new play, Raising Kamila.

Producer: Sara Davies.

Walking through the dark city late at night, a man hears footsteps and sees a figure.

Series of innovative sound stories by Bristol-based writers