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In addition to those programmes listed on the In Production page of this site, Falling Tree Productions has been commissioned by a range of broadcasters for programmes in 2008. Falling Tree Productions is delighted to receive commissions for two features from Dublin's Newstalk 106-108 fm, Ireland's National Independent Talk Radio Broadcaster. Gerry Anderson will present Before Their Time an investigation into the high suicide rate among young men in Northern Ireland. And Sean Street explores the music of Delia Murphy, whose recordings of Irish folksongs filled his family home as a child - The Queen of Connemara. For BBC Radio 4 we'll be making a number of features - Musical Migrants, produced by Rachel Hopkin, is a series of portraits of musicians who've crossed borders in search of new forms of musical expression. Andy Parfitt, Controller of Radio 1, presents Turning Japanese, a two-part account of Japan's cultural influence on Britain from the late 'Sixties to the present day - you may have heard Andy's series about the birth of the west coast rock music industry, California Dreaming. Katie Burningham produces a half hour portrait of the alternative and precarious lifestyle of cycle couriers, City Messengers. Letters to Myself is a feature constructed from letters people have written to be opened by themselves when older. It's produced by Sandhya Suri, who made the award-winning film documentary I is for India. Also, Arlen Harris and Peregrine Andrews depict the lives of 'repo men' in a half hour feature and we'll be reversioning Kari Hesthamar's celebrated documentaries for NRK about the relationship of Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen, in Leonard and Marianne. BBC Radio 3 has commissioned a collaboration between the distinguised Newfoundland producer Chris Brookes and Alan Hall. Hark! will explore the sound world of early modern England (tx. 5 October 2008). Nina Perry has had a new 'composed feature' commissioned by BBC Radio 4. Sounding Post looks at the connection between music and wood and features LA-based guitarist Laurence Juber. In the summer of 2008, Falling Tree will be producing a further pair of Archive Hours, one marking the fiftieth anniversary of the broadcast of the first Radio Ballad, The Ballad of John Axon. Produced by Charles Parker's daughter, Sara, the programme is called Like Blackpool Went Through Rock. Also, BBC Radio 4 has commissioned The Ballad of the Radio Feature, a documentary to be produced by Alan Hall tracing the evolution of the radio feature, the purpose of which has been described as being "to mirror the true inwardness of its subject". And as part of a Cosmology season on BBC Radio 4, Diane Hope will produce a feature called Lonely Nights, following the esperiences of deep sky astronomer and contemporary music fan Brian Skiff in the Lowell Observatory in Arizona. Also, the Sony Award-winning team of Arlen Harris and Peregrine Andrews unite again for a programme about 'repossession men'. BBC Radio 3 has commissioned a new 'Between the Ears' from John Wynne. Hearts, Lungs & Minds is composed from recordings made in Harefield Hospital's heart and lung transplant wards (tx. 21 June 2008). Alan Hall and Katie Burningham have been commissioned to make another 'Between the Ears', called A Map of Paradise (tx. 24 May 2008). The BBC World Service has commissioned Women of Guantanamo, an investigation into allegations that women have been held in the US detention camps there. |
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A new audio guide for the Sefton Coast Partnership narrated by Joy Blakeman is now available to visitors to the Lifeboat Road and Victoria Road sites at Formby Point offering information about all the aspects of the area. Within a scripted 60 minute guide, they hear from ecologists about the wildlife of the massive dune system and the coastal processes that make this a dynamic coastline and about the woodlands behind - home to a thriving population of red squirrels - and from historians who outline a story that dates from the last Ice Age, through Viking settlement to the unique 'cultivated landscape' - with its famous asparagus growing - that is now a celebrated recreational attraction.
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Rhapsody in Bohemia, Alan Hall's deconstruction of Queen's poperatic classic, received the Best Documentary: Directors' Choice award at last autumn's Third Coast International Audio Festival. The festival's conference and awards ceremony were held in Evanston, near Chicago, in late October 2006. Other highlights of the Festival included Piers Plowright receiving the Audio Luminary Award. It was presented to him at the ceremony in the Chicago Music Institute by Alan Hall. |
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Padre Skinner's War At the suggestion of the Sherwood Rangers Regimental Association, Falling Tree Productions has made available an audio CD of the Remembrance Sunday radio feature based on the war diary of Padre Leslie Skinner. He served from D-Day (in fact, he was the first Chaplain to land with the invasion) to beyond VE-Day. This half hour programme features three of the Chaplain's comrades - John Semken, David Render and Ernest Hawkins - and their memories are interspersed with extracts from the Padre's diary, The Man Who Worked on Sundays, read by his daughter, Annette, and two serving chaplains. Padre Skinner's War was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Remembrance Sunday 13 November 2005. To order your copy of this CD (priced £5 plus p&p), contact: info@fallingtree.co.uk |
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