Archival Imaginings

Published: Nov. 14, 2023, 3:30 p.m.

Liminal prose and cryptic hotlines. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures navigating our relationship and imaginations to history collecting.

The Flight of Sankofa\nProduced by Weyland Mckenzie-Witter\nFeaturing Lisa Anderson, the Director of the Black Cultural Archives, Dr Etienne Jospeh of Decolonising the Archive and Christopher West the inaugural curator for the Black diaspora, John Hay Library, Brown University, who recently curated an exhibition using Brown University\u2019s Mumia Abu-Jamal collection.

Xenoglossia\nProduced by Kamikaze Jones

Fish & Chips\n(best listened to with headphones)\nProduced by Abira Hussein and Olani Ewunnet\nRecorded with Sue Bowerman\nFeaturing the voices of Somali Aunties from London\nSpecial thanks to Alan Archer-Boyd, and Whose Knowledge?

Produced by Axel Kacouti\xe9\nCurated by Axel Kacouti\xe9, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft\nA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4