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Endurance

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Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about feats of endurance. From February 2020.

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 Barton

Mr Right
Produced by Inge Hoonte
Originally made for Deep Wireless 4

Runner 261
Featuring Kathrine Switzer
Produced by Andrea Rangecroft

Isn'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 Herald

Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for 大象传媒 Radio 4, first broadcast in February 2020.

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