麻豆社

The writer Anna Freeman presents a showcase of true stories about lives changed by art. This week, stories of high tides and low tides; of things washed up and things washed away; and of people making art at the water's edge.

What is it like to turn up as a guest to your own wake? We hear stories of a concert organised in tribute to a London musician, reported missing in the chaos following the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004. Of Sean Corcoran, a sand artist on the Copper Coast of Ireland on the joy he gets from making his drawings and letting them go with the changing tides. How he came to form a friendship with another sand artist in Wales never meeting him but simultaneously creating art on either side of the Irish Sea. Two Shetland women remember a remarkable woman and artist who created work from the beach finds she collected near her home on the island of Yell. Their brief encounters with Jeanette Nowak and her work inspired each to write a song about her.

Produced by Mair Bosworth and Maggie Ayre