i can't listen to this track without a growing lump in my throat and a distinct wetness around the eyes. I hope you make "The City Speaks" available commercially, if only as an MP3 album - it deserves a wider audience. And, the re-arrangement of "Attacus" here is really, really lovely. Thank you, Tim and Jana!

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Directed by Barnaby Kay
Written by Tim Elsenburg
Music by Sweet Billy Pilgrim
Production and editing by Tim Elsenburg and Jana Carpenter

Reader: Jana Carpenter

Somapolis: The City Speaks

Attacus Atlas (a chance encounter)

My first full-length play for BBC Radio 4. Going in, all I knew was that I wanted to use sound the way we use pictures in film and TV. I came up with the idea of audio surveillance early on and we carried it through from the script into production; planting microphones around the location and letting the actors move in and out of range.Produced by Karen Rose/Sweet Talk Productions. Starring Sarah Smart, Sean Gallagher, Phillip Glenister, Nicola Walker, Dan Ryan, Lesley Sharp, Will Kemp.

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Sweet Billy Pilgrim is Jana Carpenter and Tim Elsenburg. 

They’ve made five albums since 2004, including the Mercury Music Prize nominated Twice Born Men (released on David Sylvian’s Samadhisound label in 2009), and 2012’s Crown & Treaty (“A stone masterpiece” ***** Mojo Magazine), and their sixth, Somapolis, is due at some point late in 2022.

Somapolis is either a musical map of an imagined city or an X-ray of a broken heart, or both.

They’ve created their work in two garden sheds, one bothy, a small attic and a bedroom.

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