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This podcast is about my dad, and me, and our relationship. It's also about death, old age, care, love, history, change, mental health, science, medicine, art, dementia and friendship. It brings together memoir, clips from over 10 years of recordings of my father, sound design, and interviews with experts. It takes you on a journey down to a sunless sea.
This podcast includes content funded by the British Podcast Awards Fund and the Wellcome Trust.
This podcast includes content funded by the British Podcast Awards Fund and the Wellcome Trust.
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
53 minutes
English
United Kingdom
18 episodes
since March 24, 2020
serial
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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issues A document is a piece of evidence; a record; a proof of something. By this definition, we are all living documents, documents that may or may not be lost to history. What parts of us are recorded? What parts of us a…
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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issues
In the first full episode of the podcast using content funded by the British Podcast Awards and the Wellcome Trust I talk to fellow Pulse Award recipient and podcaster Penny Bell. We compare notes on documenting a …
General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issues
Additional content note for this episode: Euthanasia, suicide
Time is the longest distance between two places. Even when we are no longer here, we are always in time.
This episode is about time travel, death, dem…
General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issues
In the second full episode of the podcast using content funded by the British Podcast Awards and the Wellcome Trust I talk to Dr Jonathan Huntley about the work he is doing looking into awareness in people living w…
General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issues
Memories are like desire paths: when you first walk down them, they are overgrown and full of details. The more you walk them, the more eroded they become; they are smoothed out and set. You get to what you remembe…
General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issues Extra content note: Bereavement, suicide, disability, abortion, terminal illness In the third full episode of the podcast using content funded by the British Podcast Awards and the Wellcome Trust I talk to three do…
General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issues It's important to keep in mind that the story of my relationship with my dad is only one part of his life. It's only one of the ways he has been a father: the context of my childhood has been very different from the…
General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issues Additional content note: sexism, misogyny, questionable behavior, power dynamics and age gaps within romantic and sexual situations. When I made a show about my relationship with masculinity, I talked a lot about m…
General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issues Extra content note: Suicide, self-harm, bereavement, war, antisemitism, the Nazis, COVID19 In the fourth full episode of the podcast using content funded by the British Podcast Awards and the Wellcome Trust I talk t…
General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issues This episode is about creating things: imaginary worlds, homes and friendship. It's also about walls: drawing on walls, putting up boundaries, and pulling down the walls inside your mind and heart.
Artwork by my br…
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