Episode 13: Goodwin Sands Radiogram
This is an episode of the Goodwin Sands Radiogram, a podcast documentary series separate from the oral history project that this series has been so far. The Radiogram series was conceived by our producer Ben Horner back in 2016, and is still putting out occasional episodes as time allows.
Like the oral history project it looks to tell the stories of those who live and work around the Kent coast, but has a distinctly different flavour. The Radiogram exists is a half-fantasy radio programme, broadcast across the waves of the English Channel from a fictional shipwreck on the Sands. Our presenter is an out-of-time vintage radio-style announcer who guides us through the shortwave static as we tune in and out of our interviewee's stories. Joanna Thomson, our host and interviewer on all the previous episodes, is interviewed here as part of the programme.
This show was also recorded in front of a live audience as part of the Free Range series of arts and music events presented in Canterbury. The interviews are all pre-recorded and edited and the poetry and music (which is improvised live) is performed on stage.
Free Range exists to enable and celebrate the strange and unusual side of music and the performing arts, and as such is an excellent home for the Radiogram. Choose a dark and stormy winter's evening, close the curtains, dim the lights, and allow yourself to be swept away.
Credits:
Interviewees:
Charlie Connelly, author and explorer
Jim Hawkins, walker and adventurer
Sonia Overall, psychogeographer, writer and researcher
Joanna Thomson, Goodwin Sands conservation Trust co-founder and campaigner
Artists and contributors:
Kat Peddie: poetry
Peter Kelly: as The Announcer
Sam Bailey: piano, keyboard, singing bowls
Oliver Perrott-Webb: guitar and electronics
Conceived, written and produced:
Ben Horner
For more information about the project please see https://www.goodwinsandsradiogram.org
For more about the Goodwin Sands Conservation Trust please see https://goodwinsands.org.uk/, and please see https://theaudiosphere.com for more on Ben Horner, the producer of this and the regular series.
