Emerging talent from two BBC talent development schemes - Sound First and Words First - collaborate to create new soundworlds of spoken word and sound design.
Evocative, thoughtful and challenging, new poems recorded at the BBC Contains Strong Language festival in Leeds by the Words First spoken word artists are interwoven with new sound designs from our Sound First sound artists.
Sound First is supported by ambassador Ben Brick, the producer of Have You Heard George's Podcast? by George the Poet. Words First is supported by the poetry organisations Apples and Snakes and Young Identity.
Poems and Sound Designs by:
Stories in Storeys by Lisa O'Hare - sound design by Caitlin Hinds Dear Miss Nanji by Anna Margarita - sound design by Owen McDonnell Mind The Bleep by Nigeen Dara - sound design by Jo Kennedy ESCA by HL Truslove - sound design by Laura Campbell This Thing Called Life by Jed - sound design by Cameron Naylor Aquaphobia by Nosa - sound design by Cameron Naylor and Owen McDonnell Planted by Anisa Butt - sound design by Jo Kennedy My Last Night with Mandy by Spoken 2 Life - sound design by Laura Campbell The Shrewing of the Tame by Lisa O'Hare - sound design by Oliver Denman We Are Not Divided by Anna Margarita - sound design by Ross Burns
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