Endurance

18/02/2020 30 min

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Episode Synopsis

Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about feats of endurance. A marathon runner needs to outrun a race official who wants her off the track, a woman exhausts herself while running through the personal ads and a writer living in the shadow of a nuclear reactor finds unlikely companionship with cockroaches.Endurance
Featuring Laura BartonMr Right
Produced by Inge Hoonte
Originally made for Deep Wireless 4Runner 261
Featuring Kathrine Switzer
Produced by Andrea RangecroftIsn't it lovely?
Produced by Phoebe Wang
First commissioned as a part of the Constellations podcast's exhibition Resonant Bodies and then released in Constellations
This piece was supported in part by the Wassaic Artist Residency Program. Kathrine Switzer photo credit - Boston HeraldProduction Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia CassamSeries Producer: Eleanor McDowallA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in February 2020.

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