Getting Back There From Here by Neil Cargill
narrated by SAMYA DE MEO with Harry Ditson Simon Schatzberger Jun Noh and Michelle Sabato
You want to know why she’s running,
not least because Kat has that look in her eyes.
You know, that look.
“A MESMERISING MOSAIC OF TALES THAT COMBINE TO MAKE GRIPPING AUDIO”
Kat’s on the run and on her own, yes, but she’s not alone. She has that voice in her head. The voice of an eccentric old man of the road she calls Feral. Feral is also on the run. He too hears voices. And one of those voices turns out to be yours.
sound design: Simon James with additional sfx by Garling Wu and James Green
music: Max De Wardener
CAST
narrator / kat
Samya De Meo
with
Harry Ditson as Feral, Clarence & Gerry
Simon Schatzberger as Scob, Chef & You Jun Noh as Bug Michelle Sabato as Rita’s Girl
written & directed by Neil Cargill
A RADIOPHONICA PRODUCTION ©2021
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The unfolding story sheds light on the experience of audio pareidolia - when everyday sounds are heard as words or music - and ill-informed perception of hearing voices. Once regarded as the gift of visionaries - expanding the world view of creative and influential people such as Socrates and Galileo - due to prejudice and persecution it is now more commonly portrayed as a dangerous symptom to be suppressed.
Kat, a volatile young runaway, is being led astray by her inner voice. But that voice belongs to a complete stranger - an eccentric vagabond who quietly confuses in Kat’s mind what is subjective and objective, real and imagined, seen and remembered. As she travels ever deeper into the physical and psychological terrains of her troubled past to uncover why he singled her out for these auditory hallucinations, we find ourselves complicit in their increasingly dark and disquieting collaboration.
LINKS:
neilcargill.jimdofree.com
simonsound.co.uk
Listen to another online drama by Neil Cargill & Simon James: AKIHA DEN DEN starring Ian McDiarmid and Joy McAvoy -
akihadenden.com
jamesgreensa.com
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information and support for people who hear voices or have other unusual perceptions:
Hearing Voices Network: hearing-voices.org
photography: Marina Zasorina / Neil Cargill / Samya portrait by Jennie Scott