Past Tense

Published: Nov. 30, 2021, 2:30 p.m.

b'

Josie Long presents audio adventures and short documentaries about what\\u2019s gone before. A daughter\\u2019s decades-long search for her father who went missing as a political prisoner in South Africa, a poem by the German-American poet Lisel Mueller listing the parts that make up our memories, and the writer and comedian Heidi O\\u2019Loughlin untangles the stories woven into and around her Polynesian identity.

Nombulelo Booi\\nFeaturing Nombulelo Booi and Madeleine Fullard, with translation by Thenjiwe Kona.\\nProduced by Catherine Boulle and Bongani Kona\\nThis piece is part of a larger, ongoing documentary project by Catherine and Bongani titled Time, Paper, Bone about the work of the Missing Persons Task Team, and the exhumation of James Booi\\u2019s remains. The project won the 2021 Whickers Radio and Audio Funding Award.

Necessities\\nWritten by Lisel Mueller\\nRead by Lisel Mueller and Studs Terkel and from a conversation originally broadcast in January 1987.\\nCourtesy of the Studs Terkel Radio Archive

From the South Pacific\\nWritten and read by Heidi O\\u2019Loughlin

Curatorial team: Alia Cassam and Eleanor McDowall\\nProducer: Andrea Rangecroft\\nExecutive Producer: Axel Kacouti\\xe9\\nA Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

'