What the tide took
Longwave Studio has been in the old telephone exchange since 2015. Two live rooms, an edit suite and four people who have made more than fourteen hundred episodes between them. Some of the shows are ours. Most belong to someone else.
About this episode
Idris Bell sits down with coastal geologist Dr Owen Gallagher to walk through six settlements that no longer appear on the map, and the arguments now being had about the seventh.
Hard Water is a six-part investigative series produced end to end at Longwave Studio: research calls, studio recording, archive clearance, sound design and distribution.
How it was made
Recorded in Studio A with two large-diaphragm condensers and a spill-free headphone mix, so the two voices could be edited independently. Archive recordings were restored, levelled and placed under the narration.
The sound design in this episode is deliberately thin. A series about erosion does not need a wall of music; it needs room for a sentence to land and then stop.
Series like this take about ten weeks from first call to first episode. We will tell you that before you book, not after.
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