Weird Stories; If Fog Could Sing

Happy listening.  Apologies for any background noise.

"My friend says I shut my eyes to God, that nothing else explains My aversion to reality. She says I'm like the child who buries her head in the pillow so as not to see, the child who tells herself that light causes sadness. [...] In my dreams, my friend reproaches me. She's telling me that when you love the world you hear celestial music..." Celestial Music, Louise Gluck MUSIC...

Relaxation Tape No. 1. Relax.  DISCLAIMER: This is not a real relaxation tape. While some may find it relaxing, others may find it anything but. 

"I'm glad I've went once, but I'll never go back again!" The Artificial N****r,  Flannery O'Connor MUSIC: Bertie- Kate Bush Fourth of July- Sufjan Stevens Nocturne (from Petite Suite)- Borodin Les Corps Glorieux- Messiaen Lounge a l'Eternite de Jesus (from The Quartet for the End of Time)- Messiaen Go Lovely Rose- Quilter   Content Warning: Moderate Sex Reference...

Dramatis Personae: Me, mummy, daddy, waiter, water-rower, Barney, Nick, MAN, CALLER, Claire Keegan, Marco Pierre White, Tipperary travellers, Scriabin, Beethoven, magpie, police sirens, a sandwich, telephones, music, Tavener, Beethoven, words, Felicity, Howard, headphones, ears et al... Enjoy.

"He seldom spoke." A Most Peculiar Man, Simon and Garfunkel Music: Scriabin: Sonata No. 3, Mv. III Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major, Mv. II

"...there is often a struggle, and sometimes even more, even more interestingly, a collusion, between the powers of pathology and creation." The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,  Oliver Sacks Content Warning: Strong language, neurological disability theme

Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental (; Content Warning: Menace, disturbing scenes

"Were you there when they crucified my Lord.  Were you there when they nailed him to the tree. Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble" African-American spiritual Content Warning: Strong language, homophobia 

Apples and Pears; Horses for Courses ; Ying and Yang. Jules et Jim. An urban tale about relationships in the twenty first century... Music: Lucky Number 8, Jennifer Castle Content Warning: Strong sex references, threat, disturbing scenes 

A Musical Tale Music: Messiah- Handel ("But who my abide"/"He was despised"- Countertenor- Russel Oberlin) Auf Dem Kirchhofe- Brahms The Lamb- Tavener (The Sixteen) Take Me to Church- Hozier Content Warning: Violence, threat

Written and edited by Charlie Price Performers: Robert Price, Charlie Price, Elizabeth Kuti Content Warning: Sex references, strong language, crude humour

"Just make it go away now" Kate Bush Content Warning: Sex references

"That which is whole, torn asunder, That which is in part, finding its whole again throughout the universe." Tortoise Shout, D. H. Lawrence Music: Coat of Many Colours- Dolly Parton (live performance recording) Embraceable You- Miles/Bird The Lonely One in Autumn from Das von der Erde- Mahler O Come, O Come Emmanuel/In the Bleak Midwinter (Holst)- Choir of Kings College, Cambridge (Carol...

A re-release of my experimental sound play. Content Warning: Horror, content some viewers may find offensive (racism/misogyny) 

Some more poems (I just wanted to add on reflection the little N.B that although African-Americans use the phrase "the klan" to refer to the KKK, when discussing my poem "Serrano's Klansman" I would rather have used the term KKK than "the klan/clan". Given the extemporary nature of this particular episode, in order to preserve this quality I chose not to go back...

"Don't let your petticoats go dangling in the mud..." Oliver, Lionel Bart Content Warning: Strong sex references, strong sex, violence of a sexual nature, threat

"You are my sister And I love you May all of your dreams come true We felt so differently then So similar over the years The way we laugh the way we experience pain" Anohni N.B. I apologise, there is one misleading error in the audio which I have not been able to successfully correct subsequently. In the scene where Geraldine is attempting to explain her child's transition, what I w...

"Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out, e'en to the edge of doom". Shakespeare  Content Warning: Strong sex references, paedophilia references, infrequent gory detail, depictions of transphobia

A Radio-play by Samuel Beckett. HE: Charlie Price SHE: Elizabeth Kuti Composed, arranged, and edited by Charlie Price

"...so strong I know that I can make it Though you're doing me wrong, so wrong You thought that my pride was gone" Labi Siffre Content Warning: Though the content is not explicit, there are cancer references in this piece.

"...sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing..." Saint Francis and the Sow,  Galway Kinnell Content Warning: Graphic detail, language, content some listeners may find offensive

Some poems of mine (with introductions and a bit of waffling)   Content Warning: One use of language 

"Hiding in my room, safe within my womb I touch no-one and no-one touches me" I am a Rock, Simon and Garfunkel Content Warning: Strong language