麻豆社

A ground-breaking series capturing contemporary life across the UK with bitesize dramas, monologues, poetry and song. Each episode features five short works by writers from across the UK, and each programme responds to a different theme. In this episode - Rewinding.

Chorlton cum Hardy - an interview with Wyllie Longmore
Manchester acting and teaching legend Wyllie Longmore, considers what rewinding means to him, from his Jamaican childhood to his English training and career, and now as a grandparent. What is legacy. for this classical trained man, who spans cultures?

Sound design by Jon Nicholls.
Produced by Polly Thomas and Yusra Warsama.

Penrhos, Anglesey
Audio poem in the voice of a community about a much-treasured natural landscape under threat of development, recorded on location.

Written by Ness Owen and performed by Ness Owen, Sian Miriam and Owen Arwyn
Sound design by Nigel Lewis
Produced by Emma Harding

Holywood
Top of the Pops was an iconic and inspirational show for millions of young people in and around the UK, but for one little Indian girl from Holywood, County Down in Northern Ireland, her adoration for this eclectic pop culture threatened to destroy the relationship between her and her Indian mother, known as Ma ji.

Written and performed by Lata Sharma
Sound Design David Chilton and Lucinda Mason Brown
Produced by Celia de Wolff

Dunfermline
A teenage tragedy casts a long shadow for two old friends.

Written by Jane Livingstone
Performed by Simon Donaldson and Robin Laing
Sound design by Joanne Willott and Niall Young
Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane

Cromer
In the beginning, there is Adam and Eve. They date and make each other mixtapes after meeting at an 80s night in Cromer. Then Eve tells Adam something that mixes up their lives forever. An LGBTQ themed comedy drama about gender identity, pop music and making mixtapes.

Written by James McDermott
Performed by Misha Butler
Sound Design David Chilton and Lucinda Mason Brown
Produced by Celia de Wolff

Programme illustration by Eleanor Hibbert
Original music composed by Niroshini Thambar

Curated by Celia de Wolff for Pier Productions, 麻豆社 Cymru Wales, 麻豆社 Scotland, 麻豆社 Northern Ireland and Naked Productions for 麻豆社 Radio 4

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