Eleanor McDowall is a director of award-winning London-based radio production company Falling Tree Productions and produces radio programs and podcasts, principally for the BBC. One long-running project is Short Cuts, a short-form documentary series hosted by comedian Josie Long that takes listeners on an “adventure in sound.” McDowall—speaking from her attic room-turned-studio, where she often works into the small hours—suggests that this might be a good way to describe her approach to audio more generally, creating one-off programs and much-loved This story is from Kinfolk Issue Fifty-One Buy Now Related Stories Arts & Culture Issue 48 Behind the Scenes Anton Hur on the intricacy—and inequality—of literary translation. Arts & Culture Issue 46 Behind the Scenes Clynton Lowry on the art handler's load. Arts & Culture Tapping into Social Norms Five podcast episodes that interrogate the social codes that shape our behaviour. Arts & Culture Issue 23 Listening To Sleep Harriet Fitch Little rounds up a selection of podcasts that set out to disprove Edgar Allan Poe's claim of sleep being "little slices of death." Arts & Culture Issue 51 Emily Gernild The Danish painter breathing new life into an old medium. Arts & Culture Food Issue 51 Imogen Kwok The artist takes food styling quite literally, creating accessories out of fruits and vegetables.
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