Notes on Water

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Before I can say goodbye to the man who will leave in winter… Amanda Dalton's Notes on Water is a beautiful, visceral poetic exploration of grief. A river full of wreckage with nothing that will make a raft. Written following the death of her partner in 2019, Notes on Water takes us lyrically through the universal human experience of loss. Everything is sodden, cold, sunken. Homes are flooded, broken. The village is not a haven. Nothing is solid. Hotels fall into the sea, everything slips and changes, including time. Sound design is by Laurence Nelson, one of the young sound designers who have come though BBC's Sound First - a development scheme for new sound designers. As we move through images of the seabed, the centre of the earth and the blackness of raging water, these powerful words and sound seep under the skin, sending a depth charge through our deepest emotions. Memories of a sister punctuate the narrative, with the detail of a pink balloon the only colour in the colour drained landscape and her dancing the only light. Voices: Amanda Dalton and Colette Bryce Producer: Susan Roberts