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Vanishing Point

The writer and broadcaster Jude Rogers explores our desire to disappear.

Writer and broadcaster Jude Rogers explores the desire to run away and disappear. From tumbling down the rabbit hole to riding a train to nowhere, why do we sometimes feel the urge to vanish?

Jude reflects on how removing yourself from the world of other people can offer a certain type of freedom.

Featuring music by Grouper, Radiohead and Tindersticks, alongside the words of Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence and John Updike.

Producer: Eleanor McDowell

A Falling Tree production for 大象传媒 Radio 4

28 minutes

Last on

Sun 2 Jan 2022 23:30
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Music Played

  • Grouper

    Vanishing Point

    • The Man Who Died in his Boat.
    • Kranky.
    • 177.
    • 7.

  • Radiohead

    How to Disappear Completely

    • Kid A.
    • Parlophone.
    • CDKIDA 1.
    • 4.

  • Jefferson Airplane

    White Rabbit

    • Surrealistic Pillow.
    • Magic.
    • 3930111.
    • 4.

  • Joni Mitchell

    Urge for Going

    • Hits.
    • Reprise.
    • 9362463262.
    • 1.

  • Bronski Beat

    Smalltown Boy

    • The Age of Consent.
    • London.
    • 35042.
    • 6.

  • Colleen

    Floating in the Clearest Night

    • The Golden Morning Breaks.
    • Leaf.
    • 48.
    • 2.

  • Tindersticks

    She's Gone

    • Tindersticks (2).
    • London.
    • 5263032.
    • 13.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 23 Jun 2013 06:05
    大象传媒 Radio 4
  • Sun 23 Jun 2013 23:30
    大象传媒 Radio 4
  • Sun 2 Jan 2022 06:05
    大象传媒 Radio 4
  • Sun 2 Jan 2022 23:30
    大象传媒 Radio 4