Round Here, View from the Kitchen Window

The long time coming third episode of Stories to Tell When You Stay at Home… (again). Join Francesca to look out her kitchen window, walk round the block and hear as the view changes and buildings fall.

Music in this episode

• John Field - Nocturne No 14 Gmaj, performed by Elizabeth Joy Roe

Links

• The Staves
• Bill Withers -- Everybody's Talkin'
• The Grenfell Foundation - Home
• Justice4Grenfell
• Grenfell: New body to ban dangerous building materials after inquiry - BBC News
• Cladding: Extra £3.5bn for unsafe buildings 'too little, too late' - BBC News
• The Guardian view on the cladding scandal: rip off panels, not people | Housing | The Guardian
• Francesca Millican-Slater

Walking to a Midlands Sea

Something a little different, as you join Francesca on a walk with her dog, as she tells smalls stories and tries to find a sense of what she is missing.

Music in this episode

• John Field - Nocturne No 14 Gmaj, performed by Elizabeth Joy Roe

Stories to Tell for When You Stay at Home (an offshoot of Stories to Tell in the Middle of the Night) comes from under a den of duvets and bed sheets in a home recording written and made for now. They are about the strange situation we all find ourselves in now, they are stories to stay home to. Enjoy them as a bedtime story, an accompaniment to an afternoon nap, while you wash up, this is a voice in your ear to offer comfort and perhaps, small hopes.

• Stay at home with Razzle’s Pack
• Enjoy a date for this age in Screen Meet
• Find a different kind of connection in Cold Calling

Music in this episode

• John Field - Nocturne No 14 Gmaj, performed by Elizabeth Joy Roe

Guests

Iain Armstrong

Composer, sound designer and performer

• iain armstrong • sound artist • composer |
• Iain Armstrong (@incus_sound) | Twitter

Pippa Frith

Award-winning arts producer

• Pippa Frith (@Pippa_Frith) | Twitter
• pippadoesproducing

In this bonus episode Francesca talks with producer Pippa Frith and sound designer Iain Armstrong about turning the theatre show Stories to Tell in the Middle of the Night into a podcast series.

There are conversations about directing, editing, collaboration and whether Iain really did record the cutting his toe nails.

Day is coming, the sun is rising towards the horizon, 12 degrees to go. Shining light on the frustrations and the urges and the loves and the lost as it leaves other places to darkness on the other side of the horizon. The night lingering.

• Explore body modification in Fingertip
• Look towards the light in The Man Who Kept the World Turning
• Bid a final farewell to the night in Morning Song.

Music in this episode

• John Field - Nocturne No 14 Gmaj, performed by Elizabeth Joy Roe

We’ve had the darkest time of night and now she, the sun is moving upwards; little bits of light rising in the atmosphere, the day is coming, there is no stopping the inevitability of it breaking.

• Turn back time with Yesterday’s papers
• If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em in The Man in the Camera Shop.

Music in this episode

• John Field - Nocturne No 14 Gmaj, performed by Elizabeth Joy Roe

Tonight it’s the Horrors (not the mid-noughties indie rock band, but the night chills, the night sweats, Witching Hour). Wherever you are, let’s say it’s way past our bedtime, the sun is more than 18 degrees below the horizon, the darkest time, the night proper. Street lights perhaps, make shadows through cracks in curtains, things come half formed, cupboards and shelves looming with hands outstretched. Aches and creaks sound as footsteps. Coming…

• Clap until you can’t clap anymore, for The Woman That Died on Stage
• Read between the lines in The Note on the Fridge
• Subscribe to Real Life™️ in Collector of Grief
• Wake, work, sleep, repeat, and try to ignore The Ticking.

Music in this episode

• John Field - Nocturne No 14 Gmaj, performed by Elizabeth Joy Roe

The Night Belongs to Lovers, so we are wrapped up and in the comfort of familiar arms, safety in another’s breath… stories of finding each other in a potent sense of smell, original ways to measure time together and a man with his eye on a match made.

• Lull yourself to sleep with Bedtime Story
• Explore olfactory synesthesia in Smell
• Collect yourself in Little Pieces of Us
• Swipe right on engineered serendipity, in Analog Tinder.

Music in this episode

• John Field - Nocturne No 14 Gmaj, performed by Elizabeth Joy Roe

The night time can be the right time for hookups and booty calls, last minute love-ins and for finally doing something x-rated with that one person you’d kept on the back burner. Even though you shouldn’t have. But really you should.

• Love yourself, in Big Knickers, Thick Elastic
• Spend time with a familiar face from home, in Tank Wank.

As the titles suggest, these stories contain explicit content. Well, pretty explicit.

Music in this episode

• John Field - Nocturne No 14 Gmaj, performed by Elizabeth Joy Roe

This set of stories is the Losses part 2: The Lost and the Left Behinds. The ghosts that come crowding in, crawling up the covers and sticking their fingers in your ears. We’ll hear about a last act of kindness intended for the left behind and someone trying to lose themselves just to prove a point.

• Try to forget, in The Girl That Music Was Stalking
• Leave it all behind, in He Built His House for Him
• Clear your history in She Exits Her Life.

Music in this episode

• John Field - Nocturne No 14 Gmaj, performed by Elizabeth Joy Roe