Hidden voices and haunted landscapes are conjured up in ten unique stories from the imagination of visionary writer David Rudkin. Join a stellar cast including Juliet Stevenson, Toby Jones, Josie Lawrence, Michael Pennington and Stephen Rea, among many others on an enlightening journey across the British Isles with this dramatic audio cycle that will transform your sense of the landscape around you.
An invisible presence haunts the river-crossing, bound by guilt and rooted by betrayal. Layer by historical layer, the celebrated name of the world-famous location is revealed.
Cast: Richard Lynch
Written by David Rudkin
Music and sound by Adam P McCready
A New Perspectives production directed by Jack McNamara
Supported using public funding from Arts Council England, The Space, BBC
PlacePrints is a 10-part audio series that will transform your sense of the landscape around you.
13 Jun 2020
Off the Motorway
The voice of a lonely church draws us towards the Warwickshire hills and we begin to discover that its history is not what it seems.
Cast: Josie Lawrence and Toby Jones
Written by David Rudkin
Music and sound by Adam P McCready
A New Perspectives production directed by Jack McNamara
Supported using public funding from Arts Council England, The Space, BBC
PlacePrints is a 10-part audio series that will transform your sense of the landscape around you.
13 Jun 2020
Grim's Ditch
A ghostly homage to MR James set in remote North Wessex, in which the land itself begins to tell us what it once did to a man who tried in vain to master it.
Cast: Toby Jones, Juliet Stevenson and Jack Wilkinson
Written by David Rudkin
Music and sound by Adam P McCready
A New Perspectives production directed by Jack McNamara
Supported using public funding from Arts Council England, The Space, BBC
PlacePrints is a 10-part audio series that will transform your sense of the landscape around you.
13 Jun 2020
Cave Girl - part 1
A teenage girl finds herself trapped in a prehistoric identity when, on a research trip in Sussex with school friends, she begins to see visions of the place’s Neanderthal past. Please note this episode contains some use of strong language.
Cast: Rachel Summers with Grace Cordell, Harpal Hayer and Ben Welch
Written by David Rudkin
Music and sound by Adam P McCready
A New Perspectives production directed by Jack McNamara
Supported using public funding from Arts Council England, The Space, BBC
PlacePrints is a 10-part audio series that will transform your sense of the landscape around you.
11 Jun 2020
From the Stone Age - part 2
Stranded on a country road late at night in the Sussex Downs, Kerry leaves friends to go in search for help, but instead finds herself confronted by a vision from another time. Please note this episode contains some use of strong language.
Cast: Rachel Summers with Grace Cordell, Harpal Hayer and Ben Welch
Written by David Rudkin
Music and sound by Adam P McCready
A New Perspectives production directed by Jack McNamara
Supported using public funding from Arts Council England, The Space, BBC
PlacePrints is a 10-part audio series that will transform your sense of the landscape around you.
11 Jun 2020
Nemeton
A track to a pagan well beckons as you’re invited take a walk in West Cornwall, guided by the voice of the path itself.
Cast: Michael Pennington
Written by David Rudkin
Music and sound by Adam P McCready
A New Perspectives production directed by Jack McNamara
Supported using public funding from Arts Council England, The Space, BBC
PlacePrints is a 10-part audio series that will transform your sense of the landscape around you.
11 Jun 2020
These Clouded Hills
Re-trace the footsteps of an amazing journey as the teenage Mary Jones walked 25 miles barefoot across the rugged Snowdonia mountains to buy her own a Welsh bible.
Cast; Hedydd Dylan
Written by David Rudkin
Music and sound by Adam P McCready
A New Perspectives production directed by Jack McNamara
Supported using public funding from Arts Council England, The Space, BBC
PlacePrints is a 10-part audio series that will transform your sense of the landscape around you.
11 Jun 2020
Teitl: These Clouded Hills (Welsh language)
Dilynwch ôl troed taith anhygoel wrth i'r ferch ifanc Mary Jones gerdded 25 milltir yn droednoeth ar draws fynyddoedd garw Eryri i brynu beibl Cymreig iddi hi ei hun.
Cast: Hedydd Dylan
Ysgrifennwyd gan David Rudkin
Cerddoriaeth a sain gan Adam P McCready
Cynhyrchiad New Perspectives wedi'i gyfarwyddo gan Jack McNamara
Cefnogwyd gan ddefnyddio cyllid cyhoeddus gan Gyngor Celfyddydau Lloegr, The Space, BBC
11 Jun 2020
To the Waters and the Wild
A hidden lake speaks to us, revealing how secret visits by a young boy have continued to haunt him as a grown man in Northern Ireland.
Cast: Stephen Rea and Frances Tomelty
Written by David Rudkin
Music and sound by Adam P McCready
A New Perspectives production directed by Jack McNamara
Supported using public funding from Arts Council England, The Space, BBC
PlacePrints is a 10-part audio series that will transform your sense of the landscape around you.
11 Jun 2020
Where There is No More Sea
An actress conjures the last moments of a 17th century young woman in Scotland drowned at sea for refusing to swear allegiance to the English crown.
Cast: Frances Grey
Written by David Rudkin
Music and sound by Adam P McCready
A New Perspectives production directed by Jack McNamara
Supported using public funding from Arts Council England, The Space, BBC
PlacePrints is a 10-part audio series that will transform your sense of the landscape around you.
11 Jun 2020
Here We Stay
Hear the voice of the plague, as it offers a guided tour of its spread through the village Eyam in 1665, before the villagers quarantined themselves to prevent it from spreading.
Cast: Charlotte Cornwell, Ray Castleton, Hayley Doherty, Jack Wilkinson and Anthony Wise, Angharad Davis (violin)
Written by David Rudkin
Music and sound by Adam P McCready
A New Perspectives production directed by Jack McNamara
Supported using public funding from Arts Council England, The Space, BBC
PlacePrints is a 10-part audio series that will transform your sense of the landscape around you.
11 Jun 2020
Poison Cross
Modern England is transformed into an ancient bloody battlefield, as seen by the driver of an HGV truck as it hurtles down the motorway towards Warwickshire.
Cast: Hedydd Dylan, Tyrone Huggins, Maria Louis and Richard Lynch
Written by David Rudkin
Music and sound by Adam P McCready
A New Perspectives production directed by Jack McNamara
Supported using public funding from Arts Council England, The Space, BBC
PlacePrints is a 10-part audio series that will transform your sense of the landscape around you.
11 Jun 2020
David Rudkin - interview
“PlacePrints are quite unlike anything written about the 'place' of place and the meanings of belonging, of the necessity to listen to the land.” Gareth Evans
Curator and producer Gareth Evans discusses the genesis and wider resonances of the epic PlacePrints project in a rare interview with its visionary writer David Rudkin.
Supported using public funding from Arts Council England, The Space, BBC
PlacePrints is a 10-part audio series that will transform your sense of the landscape around you.
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