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Sound First and Words First

Published: March 3, 2024, 7:15 p.m.

Emerging talent from two BBC talent development schemes - Sound First and Words First - collaborate to create new soundworlds of spoken word and sound design.

Evocative, thoughtful and challenging, new poems recorded at the BBC Contains Strong Language festival in Leeds by the Words First spoken word artists are interwoven with new sound designs from our Sound First sound artists.

Sound First is supported by ambassador Ben Brick, the producer of Have You Heard George's Podcast? by George the Poet. Words First is supported by the poetry organisations Apples and Snakes and Young Identity.

Poems and Sound Designs by:

Stories in Storeys by Lisa O'Hare - sound design by Caitlin Hinds \nDear Miss Nanji by Anna Margarita - sound design by Owen McDonnell\nMind The Bleep by Nigeen Dara - sound design by Jo Kennedy \nESCA by HL Truslove - sound design by Laura Campbell \nThis Thing Called Life by Jed - sound design by Cameron Naylor \nAquaphobia by Nosa - sound design by Cameron Naylor and Owen McDonnell\nPlanted by Anisa Butt - sound design by Jo Kennedy \nMy Last Night with Mandy by Spoken 2 Life - sound design by Laura Campbell \nThe Shrewing of the Tame by Lisa O'Hare - sound design by Oliver Denman \nWe Are Not Divided by Anna Margarita - sound design by Ross Burns