Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about mothers and motherhood.

We hear a story of a recurrent dream about searching for an absent mother, Heather O'Neill delves into the ways her mother and her own experience of motherhood have threaded through her life, and the writer Nikesh Shukla reflects on ways to remember a mother you've lost.

Fragments Of My Mother Written and read by Nikesh Shukla

Motherhood, a short story Featuring Heather O'Neill Produced by Sarah Cuddon

Call Me Mother Featuring Raven Mandella Produced by Suzie McCarthy

Mother, Unknown Produced by Nanna Hauge Kristensen

Production team: Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4