Matthew Sweet investigates the history, politics and economics of this elusive concept, with Tiffany Watt-Smith, Sophie Scott-Brown, Becca Voelcker, and Christian Krekel.
Originally broadcast live, 10pm Thursday 21st March 2024
BBC Radio 3
Producer: Luke Mulhall
now available on BBCSounds, Spotify, Apple Music, and bbc.co.uk
Can a 40-hour film of a Massachusetts garden or a project documenting rice growing over 40 years help us to understand our planet better? Who makes and who watches such projects? Matthew Sweet is joined by film historian Becca Voelcker who has watched projects recorded in Japan, Colombia, Scotland and America; Thomas Halliday, who charts the earth's ecologies through deep time; and the environmentalist Rupert Read, and artist James Bridle.
Originally broadcast live, 10pm Thursday 16th June 2022
BBC Radio 3
Producer: Luke Mulhall
now available on BBCSounds, Spotify, Apple Music, and bbc.co.uk
Can you give a house a wake? Is the wake, rather, for a childhood? What does this wake sound like? Maybe it sounds like the wind that blows off the moor into the trees that tap the roof slates. Or like the curlew who sings from the eaves even after I've gone. Or like the Welsh words that describe this house in its mossy topography, words that let me name my identity, words that I can translate for you.
Written, recorded and edited by Becca Voelcker.
Thanks to Jorie Graham, Sherah Bloor, David Wolfe Beech, and Film & Video at Central Saint Martins.
copyright Becca Voelcker 2021-23