About this episode
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Mr Right Produced by Inge Hoonte Originally made for Deep Wireless 4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 BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in February 2020.
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