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A snapshot of the world in sound. Listen again to short extracts from Radio 3's 'Thinking Earth: Earth Mapping' [first broadcast on 2nd January 05] A series of three distictive programmes, capturing the world in sound, have been commissioned by Radio 3, Radio 4 and the World Service. Two of the three programmes were broadcast on the 1st and 2nd January 2005, on Radio 4 and Radio 3. Find out more about each of the programmes below.  Radio 4 - Thinking Earth: An ABC of the NightSaturday 1st January 2005 at 8:00pm View a photo gallery An hour long programme inspired by the simplicity of children's ABC books. 26 short pieces from 26 different parts of the globe recorded at night. Mainly using real people and on-location recording these are tiny night-time stories organised in alphabetical order from Australia to Zululand. In only an hour listeners can skinny-dip at midnight in Stavanger, hear from a baker in Tehran, talk to a night bus driver in Rome, tread the night-time jungle in Borneo, stalk the nocturnal Kiwi in New Zealand, hear a watchman with visions of ectoplasm in an Indian cemetery and spend the night with a car guard on the streets of Cape Town. 26 little audio pieces woven together with the music of Nina Perry (Radio Drama's first Composer in Residence 2002). An aural snapshot of 26 very different experiences of night View a list of contributors  Radio 3 'Drama on 3' - Thinking Earth: Earth MappingSunday 2nd January 2005 at 8:00pm View a photo gallery What story would you tell that links to place? A meditation on mapping with international artists who each tell us a story of a map that is important to them. The starting point was a question posed to a selection of writers, artists, composers, environmentalists and members of the public: what maps do you live by? The contributions tell of borders, journeys, pathways and forms of mapping. Earth Mapping developed as a progression from last year's Drama on 3 'Packet of Seeds', providing a companion piece and a second collaborative approach to creating drama. A narrative weaves between the contributions taking us on a journey as a man tries to re-connect to what is important in his life, by first, getting himself lost in a wood. In Kabul a man remembers a journey to Pakistan, in Greenland another man watches the birds migrate and in a field in the South of England someone lies on his back looking up at the sky, 'x' marks the spot for his own private pilgrimage. Meanwhile Kevin tries to get lost in a wood in order to remember a day in his childhood when he first learned about mapping and why it is sometimes important to lose your way. View a list of the contributors  World Service - Thinking Earth: A Little Piece of Earth Coming soon... View a photo gallery Many little pieces of earth joined together make the world. This idea is the starting point for the journey poet Glyn Maxwell takes us on in this sound poem for New Year's Day. Along with Glyn's haunting poetry, are contributions from people from around the world who have recorded their own personal ruminations on the place they call home. From a Bangladeshi shrimp farmer's fishing area to a dancehall occupied by a Tango dancer in Brazil; a person dreaming of a cricket ground in Guyana to a schoolgirl allowed for the first time into a schoolroom in Afghanistan, we each of us have, or dream of, our own special piece of earth. These have been joined together in sound to give just a small a taste of the rich mosaic that is the earth we share. With additional contributions from:Yoko Ono (Artist/Songwriter),Tim Smit(director of the UK Eden Project), Iranian video installation artist Shirin Neshat , Indian storyteller, Vayu Naduand the Zimbabwean songwriter and athlete Henry Olonga |
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