A short story by Martin Cathcart Froden, featured on BBC Radio 4's Opening Lines programme.
"In this beguiling tale about exploration and humankind's desire to conquer the natural world, a young man answers the siren call of the sea and pushes his body to extremes." -BBC


Read by Stuart McLoughlin
Produced by Gemma Jenkins

The Underwater Cathedral by Martin Cathcart Froden

This is a short taster of The Art of Bridging, a podcast that documents songs and conversations from the Distant Voices project. Distant Voices was an arts-based research project using collaborative songwriting to explore experiences of incarceration and homecoming. The project was hosted and made possible by arts organisation Vox Liminis. You can listen to the whole podcast series here: www.flowcode.com/page/theartofbridging and find out more about the work of Vox Liminis here: www.voxliminis.co.uk/

The Art of Bridging - podcast taster

Draw Me A City - Lucy Cathcart Froden

Written for a fundraising CD for West End Montessori Pre-school. Recorded (and pimped up with some cello plucks) by Alan Bryden.

All the colours

Episode 1 of new podcast, Our chance of becoming human. This episode explores collaborative songwriting as a translation process, and ponders what can be 'found in translation'. And if integration and translation are both bridges from one person or place to another, then what is the nature of the in-between, the interstitial, liminal spaces?

Our Chance Of Becoming Human - Episode 1

Episode 2 of Our Chance of Becoming Human - a podcast charting the journey of a PhD that's exploring how creating music together can have an effect on social integration. This episode takes us from dialogue theory to storytelling to immigration detention to narrative therapy to Bakhtin and polyphony, with some musical interludes inspired by Greek poet Sappho.

Our Chance Of Becoming Human - Episode 2

Episode 3 of Our Chance of Becoming Human - an audio scrapbook charting the journey of a PhD that's exploring how creating music together can have an effect on social integration. This episode bounces around finding connections between the work of feminist philosopher Adriana Cavarero, social anthropologist Tim Ingold, and professor of applied and social theatre, James Thompson. And there are a couple of new tunes in there as well.

Our Chance Of Becoming Human - Episode 3

Episode 4 of a podcast documenting a PhD journey, this time reflecting on a weekend spent writing songs with a group of young women from all over the world, and sharing demos of a couple of those songs. This episode also draws on the work of anthropologist Victor Turner, cellist Yo Yo Ma, and radical feminist theorist bell hooks.

Our Chance of Becoming Human - Episode 4

Collaboration with James Yorkston for the Fruit Tree Foundation New Branch EP

2. Underwater signalling

From the Fruit Tree Foundation's New Branch EP

5. I've made all the mistakes

Lucy Cathcart Froden (aka raukarna) is interested in collaborative songwriting, language and translation, and is doing a PhD exploring the role of music in social integration, particularly among people with convictions and migrant communities. She makes a podcast on these themes called 'Our chance of becoming more human'.

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