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Today the invisible and free

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encounters, true stories,

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radio adventures and

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found sound. Suddenly

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I'm falling. Today I'm Falling

1:57

upright. The Invisible. If

2:02

a chronic ghostly prices. Versus

2:08

I can start. With

2:15

I just thought today by some

2:17

doing see inside and during. This

2:22

is fast food costs And the Bbc

2:25

in January Nineteen Sixty Four. Suddenly

2:30

on schooling. I'm

2:34

feeling right. I

2:37

was falling and twisting. I'm

2:42

falling upright. Slow.

2:54

Twist. Hand over. Stretching.

2:59

Out. Increasing.

3:02

And speed. Mouth

3:05

open wide but no

3:07

sound. Feeling

3:20

as space and nothingness.

3:26

Nothingness. Of

3:33

my flute. Held

3:39

up by my governments which had

3:41

already helps. To

3:48

accelerate. More and more

3:50

and more my head was

3:52

down our speeding Donald. Some

3:55

great. Said

3:59

or a table. time and increasing in

4:01

speed, tumbling and falling,

4:03

no more floating at all, just

4:05

tumbling and falling and accelerating

4:11

all the time, faster and faster.

4:17

I felt as if I was falling forever. I am definitely going

4:19

down, down, down. I know

4:23

that nothing, nothing can

4:25

stop me. I

4:37

try sometimes to think

4:40

in myself, oh this is lovely, you should

4:42

be enjoying this, but I'm so

4:44

panic-stricken. I

4:48

know in the end I'm finished, I'm just sinking, sinking

4:50

into this bright black void. I

4:57

see no cloud at all. I

5:03

was falling through this water. It

5:06

was all around me this water,

5:08

I didn't like it. I was

5:18

falling, I got my legs in here and my

5:20

hands out. It was

5:22

all around me this water, I didn't like it. I

5:27

got my legs in here and my hands out

5:29

and my arms outstretched and I

5:32

suddenly all this water became full

5:34

of other people and other things all

5:36

falling. All these people

5:44

were all floating downwards through this water,

5:46

all going downwards the same as I was.

5:49

People like me with their arms outstretched and

5:51

their legs, all going downwards the

5:53

same as I was and chairs and tables

5:55

and things like this, All

5:57

these people were all floating downwards through this

5:59

water. People I meet our

6:01

own. And

6:04

I put my own. To.

6:07

Alex like. This

6:19

falling into was s to

6:21

say stuff society. Or

6:24

floating down with through this waters all

6:26

going down with the same as I

6:28

was. Accelerating all the time.

6:30

Faster and faster to accelerate

6:32

the all the time and

6:35

increasing and speed or speeding

6:37

downwards sinking. Sinking into this

6:39

point, that void drilling down

6:41

into. Reeling.

8:05

During. Me:

8:31

Meaning of. I.

8:42

Know that if I don't pull

8:45

myself. Space.

8:59

A tremendous. Of

9:02

doing. Things

9:04

air them. I.

9:29

See no cloud to talk. About

9:54

with an extract from the

9:56

dream. One

9:58

is Barry Bonds. Delia Derbyshire

10:01

is in. The

10:09

landscapes of are nocturnal

10:11

imagination as untrustworthy. Readily

10:14

shape shifting from one place to

10:17

another. Even moving three

10:19

the waking world, you can always

10:21

read what's right and. I

10:31

signed it. really pissed off

10:33

season here the first flush

10:36

him all the landscape is

10:38

really is a beautiful and

10:40

kind of typically. Friends

10:42

or. Should

10:45

I think of this when you

10:47

know the history of the place,

10:49

but also as Swinney see actually

10:51

how many police circulating? he wouldn't

10:53

know that face because they're not

10:55

actually. and mart. Sounds from health. Pick

10:57

them up and see the that uniforms.

11:00

Say that sends his mind is

11:02

quite as go sleep safe for

11:04

think as a conical repricing. Hide

11:17

the I come from her arthur. Laffer

11:20

Curve That burglary. Or

11:23

heard what from for I don't know if people.

11:26

Use vulgar other for murdering have

11:28

a look. yeah. So.

11:31

Far is a nature reserve

11:33

which is right on the

11:36

outskirts of Calais. Does this

11:38

idea of it being a

11:40

space for migratory birds and

11:42

said native plants thought people

11:44

that live in collect and

11:46

enjoy. From here we're

11:48

in. The bird blind is quite a

11:51

curated view. You have been that you

11:53

have all of these boxes which you

11:55

should look out a member of the

11:57

waterfowl. I mean you can kind of.

12:00

The be flooded areas which have been dug

12:02

up excavated to create these kind of standing

12:04

bodies of water for the waterfowl to come.

12:06

There's also the mound which is where literally

12:08

they've pushed all of the soil and that

12:11

they used to dig up the like the

12:13

kind of course that altogether so within there

12:15

will be also the remains the remnants of

12:17

the in have into the space on of

12:20

the trash olive verb it's plastic I mean

12:22

they they've cleaned it up but in a

12:24

with a narrow have to be the history

12:26

of the sites and kind of in that

12:29

mountains in which. Now there's some and birds

12:31

you know nesting in that have. made

12:34

their mid their homes, their. Breakfast

12:47

join the arrival at the

12:49

Fake literally. Were

13:03

worried about well done. That

13:36

for a lot of the jungle was

13:38

and then it was excavated to build

13:40

a body of water which would attract

13:43

migratory guess waterfowl. To

13:45

me, we can walk around a bit. Seed.

13:52

Nature is says is for

13:54

the enjoyment of the residents

13:57

of Collide. That really only

13:59

said. Kind proposal and. While.

14:02

It's very hospitable for plants

14:04

and animals, including migratory birds.

14:06

Is actually very inhospitable for

14:08

people. It's hard for people

14:11

to come. It's hard for

14:13

people to sit down on.

14:15

It's been designed that way.

14:18

The local authorities didn't

14:20

want migrants to be

14:22

setting up camps sustain

14:24

them. Drop

14:26

the road as the border police for me

14:29

how from by a certain. Way.

14:37

Every were looking for i of their work. From

14:41

the jungle was former camp and

14:43

how did are people trying to

14:46

cross the Uk? The idea for

14:48

the Jungle began in two thousand

14:50

and fourteen after a large number

14:52

of people started coming to Cali,

14:54

Libya much more noticeable in the

14:56

city and then the mayor Natasha

14:58

Butcher decided that they needed to

15:00

do something to contain the situation

15:02

and so she proposed to set

15:04

up a space outside of the

15:06

city which could consolidate different services

15:08

for people and then offered tolerate

15:10

their camping. Does next to displace. Batting.

15:13

Quickly, the jungle kind of outgrew

15:16

the design of the architects. Three

15:24

main evictions: the jungle and.

15:27

In every of action, people resisted their

15:29

homes in degree from them and destroyed.

15:35

Theirs often lots of tear gas the freezer

15:37

going from face. Blouse

15:39

and We were is the by setting

15:41

fire to their own houses and structures

15:44

rather than at the please come in

15:46

and tear them down. there

15:57

was an uncanny today you see a lot of

15:59

and around small bits

16:01

of grass or in wooded areas,

16:03

what were previously forests or where

16:05

trees were. These have all

16:07

been chopped down and mulched. And this is

16:10

basically trying to take away the places which

16:12

would allow people to live

16:14

without being seen very well. Enclosure

16:19

through the Fort Vere project has pushed

16:21

people into other parts of Calais where

16:24

they have to continue to set up

16:26

camps or live in squatted spaces under

16:28

much harsher conditions in terms of police

16:30

harassment. A number of times they're evicted.

16:33

People are losing their tent every two

16:35

days. Calais

16:37

has effectively been the UK's border since

16:39

the signing of the Litu-K Treaty, which

16:42

established juxtaposed border controls. The

16:45

UK Border Force invested funds

16:47

in creating this nature reserve.

16:50

To me that's kind of a clear sign

16:52

that this is also understood to

16:54

be UK border infrastructure. Otherwise why

16:56

would the border force give

16:58

their money to build

17:00

it, right? We've

17:07

increasingly seen border security

17:10

infrastructure taking a form

17:12

of environmental conservation projects.

17:15

There's been larger side

17:17

of recognition of the

17:20

climate crisis, right? The kind

17:22

of environmentalist logic is

17:24

one which people don't want to challenge

17:26

in the same way. So it's a

17:28

way to put forward a convincing argument

17:31

that these spaces need to be

17:33

protected from human intrusion, from damage,

17:36

or as anti-immigrant. Project logic,

17:38

but then also putting that forth in a

17:40

way which is more palatable. With climate

17:42

change we shouldn't assume that we, whoever we

17:44

are, are not going to be on the

17:46

move. There's this imagination that

17:49

there are spaces in

17:51

Europe, for example, where things

17:53

are going to be better and

17:56

safer and that therefore we need

17:58

to be shoring up the borders again. against people

18:00

who are coming from outside. I

18:03

don't think that's necessarily the case. I think

18:05

we need to recognise that in the

18:07

same way that, you know, species are on

18:09

the move, habitats are on the move, everything

18:11

is on the move, human beings are part

18:13

of that. And that movement is speeding

18:16

up. 0

18:28

fixation points was made for us

18:30

by Nada Smilinich, and

18:32

it featured Professor Bridget Anderson and

18:35

Travis Van Iseker from the

18:37

University of Bristol. The

18:39

location recordings were made by Avi

18:41

Vong. In

18:51

dreams, there's nothing we can hide from ourselves. When

18:55

you're conscious, you can make a good fist of

18:57

looking the other way. But,

19:00

at night time, the truth will

19:02

find you. Quiet

19:06

violence of dreams. Lineage

19:11

tethers me to these

19:13

dreams. Dreams

19:16

I cannot escape.

19:20

I'm told that it's the

19:22

ancestral world whispering in my

19:24

ear about that which

19:26

is unresolved with kin. That

19:30

which is unresolved dates

19:32

back to a death. He

19:42

lies on the stretcher in the doctor's

19:44

room. A bellowing cry from the pit

19:47

of my stomach envelops the four walls.

19:50

It ricochets to grab

19:52

me by the throat.

19:55

I cannot escape. You

20:00

know well enough to cry the since was.

20:04

My father on the bed, Has

20:08

helped supposed I've vacant.

20:12

His sister's my

20:14

arms barge in and.

20:18

They've taken him away of

20:21

take enough finance, pride and

20:23

joy or way they say.

20:27

An accusation pointed at

20:29

me, my mother, and

20:32

sister. Never

20:36

forgotten. This

20:38

is a cause for a

20:41

strange mint. And

20:43

as I sing

20:46

see him to

20:48

sleep. I

20:51

dream my. First

20:55

dream. I'm.

21:00

And my day in. A

21:03

high case meant for clothing.

21:07

As beside. It

21:10

obscures my frame from

21:12

you. I deliberately am

21:14

hiding from you. You

21:18

find me. And

21:20

say I have been looking for

21:22

you. And

21:24

secure whole batch. And

21:29

in anticipation of my daughter's birth.

21:32

I dream. Again,

21:35

The. Second dream. Cousins.

21:40

Heavens. We

21:42

meet each other at the mall. One

21:45

of you feel it is

21:47

wearing a white dress v

21:49

ever. Summer line is lingering

21:51

in the shadows, disappearing into

21:53

the darkness with every step

21:55

back you take someone like

21:57

me, you won't make. Contact

22:01

The shadows swallow

22:03

you. Feel

22:06

if. You had me an

22:08

envelope. Does

22:11

the thousand rounds and here. You

22:14

insist it is not be

22:16

paid back. I

22:19

dream. The third

22:21

dream items. On

22:24

it's it's you Again, you were in

22:26

the cloth of I'm A Call I.

22:29

Am in a hurry to leave. You

22:32

say you love interest is waiting for you? You

22:36

a td like can love

22:38

stricken teenager. You

22:41

leave with him and

22:44

disappear into those cressy

22:46

hills. For

22:50

three. Eldest

22:52

cousin. Elders

22:55

cousin time if you

22:57

are driving. My father's

23:00

car has a Red

23:02

Monza and Nineteen Ninety

23:04

Five model. On

23:06

the passenger seat as are

23:08

and nice. See.

23:12

Looks senile. The car

23:14

looks like a fun

23:16

a movie set given

23:18

the sense that it's

23:20

moving, but in actual

23:22

fact it's not. Handing

23:26

you sort of money if. You

23:29

had time to cow seen on.

23:34

Dreams I cannot

23:36

escape. Am told

23:39

that it's the ancestral world

23:41

whispering in my ear about

23:43

that which is unresolved with

23:45

can. The

23:47

ego one allow a

23:49

resolution. So

23:52

tonight our dream again.

23:56

Just as I will Many more nice to

23:58

come. This

24:01

is a quiet violence

24:04

of green. I'm

24:07

a poop. Malicious

24:11

could do my now Mrs. Clinton

24:14

one hour. Of.

24:39

A quiet violence of dream with

24:42

made fresh by Kiki. So many

24:44

see. From

24:53

the landscape his dreams to one

24:55

of passing clouds if memory. The

24:59

last thing, if and to here

25:01

today is a conversation between the

25:03

Grand To and her grandmother's sister

25:05

four hundredth birthday. Specific

25:14

ways of. It's.

25:18

Just a look inside. bigger just

25:21

it is is it closes. I

25:23

remember very well. As

25:27

little since. The

25:30

back to serve food as soon. As.

25:37

It's all of us. When

25:52

you've lived for nearly a hundred in. How

25:56

do you think about the future? A

26:01

peaceful solution. It's.

26:05

Under the couple of to assess

26:08

assess. Oh

26:10

this could be peace.

26:25

Thinking and Sam's. Grandmother

26:28

made with them. Oh boy

26:31

said. Will

26:33

have or them from this don't know this

26:35

is it was about. When

26:38

you don't believe in an afterlife

26:40

you have to say about Grandpa

26:42

and how. He felt

26:44

you held his eternity. Is

26:55

Israel is sort of my. Responsibility.

26:59

Isn't it is seepage or day

27:01

keep him alive. A

27:05

specific face difficulties of evidence

27:07

of this those executives said

27:10

to the next they seem

27:12

to be elude. His

27:15

death Of him. That's. A

27:35

sad as it is. I

27:44

like sizes. Different

27:47

people carry the from

27:49

practice is of somebody

27:51

elses a services. This

27:53

is. Herdman

28:14

with made for us by one of our

28:16

physicists as the Mcdowell. She

28:20

was talking to her grandmother Margaret, who

28:22

is ninety nine years old at the

28:24

time. She passed away

28:26

a couple of years later as a

28:28

hundred and was. That

29:09

was the last in our current series of

29:11

short cuts. But don't worry, we'll be back

29:13

at the end of the summer. I don't

29:16

imagine anything of importance happening between. Now

29:18

and then slow enjoy sounds.

29:21

Can you just come here?

29:23

He is not as you

29:25

got any distinguishing features is

29:27

anonymity was his bag Bank

29:29

C suggest and on on

29:31

a mission to find out

29:33

how banks he became the

29:35

world's most famous and infamous

29:38

living office Mckinsey anymore Thanks

29:40

Essentially humiliates well with feel

29:42

his critics and someone who

29:44

once worked inside Fang Secret

29:46

T V which know sometimes

29:48

I wish I'd never has

29:50

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