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Emma Golby-Kirk
After enjoying a varied career in the arts, community and public sector, I have decided to follow my dream and explore the wonderful world of radio production. I am particularly excited by the opportunity to contribute creatively to such a dynamic and evolving medium at this landmark point in its development.I am using my time at Bournemouth to gain valuable experience of producing as much audio as possible across drama, documentary and feature forms. I am very much looking forward to starting a career as an audio producer and I never lose sight of what a privilege it is to be granted a brief ‘window’ into the fascinating lives of other people.
I hope you enjoy listening to my programmes and would welcome any feedback at emma@sublime.demon.co.uk
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Sweet Waters
This piece is adapted from a couple of scenes in the novel Sweet Thames by Matthew Kneale. It was made as part of a series of podcasts which would accompany a walk around London from the banks of the Thames, through the streets of Soho and out to the Crossness Pumping Station at Abbey Wood. The series gives a historical account of the development of the London sewers driven through fictional characters.
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Adapted and Produced by Emma Golby-Kirk.
Cast: Engineer - Nigel Roper, Servant - Matthew Rangecroft, Prostitute - Maria Corral.
Gone Fishing
Bernard’s fishing trip has been his weekly retreat from the hustle and bustle of family life for years. But now the kids are grown, isn’t it about time he paid more attention to his wife? His fishing partner, Doreen certainly doesn’t think so.
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Cast: Doreen - Meriel Sheppard, Bernard - Neil Gwynne, Lizzie - Christine English.
Written by Barbara Reed.
A Dickens of a Stink!
What did Charles Dickens do when he wasn’t writing his great novels? He was writing great letters of complaint, that’s what. This piece is a reading of a letter that Charles Dickens wrote from Gad’s Hill on Wednesday July 7th 1858, in which he ‘kicked up a great stink’ about – well – the ‘Great Stink’ a term used to refer to the state of the River Thames at that time.
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Caged
Some people say that a dog is a man’s best friend. But what about your hamster? Have you ever stopped to wonder what life is like from their perspective? And how would you feel if you were destined to live out your days in a world behind bars on somebody else’s shelf?
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Cast: Pets - Ross Holland and Sally Scott. Children - Olivia and Sebastian Golby-Kirk
Two Plus One Makes Perfect
In an age when people have never had so much control over how many children they have, why is it that so many are choosing to have just one?
I talked to my good friend and mother of one, Helen, to find out what affect, if any, this life of singular attention has had on her son Dominic…
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Seeking Solace in a Foreign Land
Each Friday, on a busy tree lined avenue in central Southampton, over 100 refugees and asylum seekers are welcomed through the doors of a church drop-in centre. Here they receive a wide range of help and support from Southampton’s refugee support agencies ranging from English classes to welfare and legal advice.
I went along to find out more about what happens at the drop-in session and, whilst there, I heard one woman’s powerful story of her struggle to be granted leave to remain in Britain.
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With special thanks to City Life Education and Action for Refugees - clearproject.org.uk
Livvy Wants a Mobile
An estimated 52% of all five to nine year olds now own a mobile phone. So how long can I hope to deflect my ten year old’s constant pestering to be plugged into the tele-comms world?