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An artistic and curious feature exploring the music and narrative of a vivid selection of lullabies from around the world.
Read the accompanying article for the series:
The Universal Language of Lullabies
Composed Features
Supermarket Symphony
Composer and Producer: Nina Perry
Musicians: Oli Langford (Violin and Viola) Danny Keane (Cello) and Oliver Harrison (Additional sound composition)
Selected as radio highlight of 2011 by The Guardian. Featured on the BBC radio 4 blog, Follow links for other reviews and Production Blog.
Commissioned by BBC Radio 4 First aired July 2011 repeated BBC4 Extra July 2016. Aired in the US on Third Coast's Re:Sound in 2013 and in Australia on Radio National in 2013
Nina Perry's composed feature 'Supermarket Symphony' reveals the beauty, musicality and personal stories found in supermarkets over a day. Specially composed music and the sounds of the supermarket are interwoven with some of the human encounters to be discovered along with the weekly shop.
Amongst stories and rituals of shoppers and supermarket workers, we hear from Michael, a theatrical cheese counter assistant, who now in his 70's reveals his many past lives, and the happiness he finds serving people with cheese; Father Pat, a priest who enjoys the chance to connect with his local community whilst wheeling his trolley down the aisles and Julie who works on the tills, and has a gift for turning a frown into laughter.
A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4