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Josie Long presents audio adventures and short documentaries about what鈥檚 gone before. A daughter鈥檚 decades-long search for her father who went missing as a political prisoner in South Africa, a poem by the German-American poet Lisel Mueller listing the parts that make up our memories, and the writer and comedian Heidi O鈥橪oughlin untangles the stories woven into and around her Polynesian identity.

Nombulelo Booi
Featuring Nombulelo Booi and Madeleine Fullard, with translation by Thenjiwe Kona.
Produced by Catherine Boulle and Bongani Kona
This piece is part of a larger, ongoing documentary project by Catherine and Bongani titled Time, Paper, Bone about the work of the Missing Persons Task Team, and the exhumation of James Booi鈥檚 remains. The project won the 2021 Whickers Radio and Audio Funding Award.

Necessities
Written by Lisel Mueller
Read by Lisel Mueller and Studs Terkel and from a conversation originally broadcast in January 1987.
Courtesy of the Studs Terkel Radio Archive

From the South Pacific
Written and read by Heidi O鈥橪oughlin

Curatorial team: Alia Cassam and Eleanor McDowall
Producer: Andrea Rangecroft
Executive Producer: Axel Kacouti茅
A Falling Tree production for 麻豆社 Radio 4