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The Day After

Dec 14, 2021

28:45

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The General Strike and Fabulation

03:54

Abolition, a List of Some of the Places They Would Like Us to Forget

01:54

After Destroyment, Re Enchantment Is Necessary

03:24

Introduction

3min

I Love You, David

2min

The Chicago White Socks and Baseball

2min

I Love You, Dad, and I Will Always Love You

1min

The Little Paradise of Long Island

2min

Is There a Choice in the Situation, but There Wasn't?

2min

Then I Sat in the Boat, and I Waited for the Engine to Give Out.

2min

A House Crashed Here

2min

Where Do You Belong?

2min

10.

Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

2min

11.

The General Strike and Fabulation

4min

12.

Abolition, a List of Some of the Places They Would Like Us to Forget

2min

13.

After Destroyment, Re Enchantment Is Necessary

3min

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures on the days after a life-altering event and imagining better futures.

Three children look for the memory of their father on a baseball field, a resettled community wonders where they belong to and the writer Lola Olufemi offers experiments for imagining an alternative world.

Andromeda is a Baseball Diamond Produced by Ariel Mejia

Resettlement Featuring Geraldine Brown, Jeanette Brown, Linda Slade Byrne, Hana Deir and Cecil Penny. All took part in the Fisheries Household Resettlement Program in Placentia Bay. Produced by Rebecca Nolan

Experiments for the Day Before Yesterday’s Tomorrow Featuring Lola Olufemi Produced by Tej Adeleye

Programme image taken by Marilyn Marsh, courtesy of the Marine History Archive.

Curated by Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall Executive Producer: Axel Kacoutié A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4