Format four
Wherever the
story actually is.
A lighthouse gallery, a shuttered mill, a night ferry. Taken out of the studio because the room tone is not the background — it is the episode.
The kit fits
in one bag
A recorder, a shotgun mic with a windjammer, two lavaliers, a spare set of batteries and far more cable than seems reasonable. Everything else is the building.
Half of these episodes exist because somebody wrote in and said you should hear this place before it goes. Four of the forty-one buildings have since gone.
41Locations
4Since demolished
1Bag of kit
Where it has been
| Place | Why there | Runs |
|---|---|---|
| A lighthouse lamp gallery | The glass hums at a pitch you can only hear inside it | 1:04 |
| The last working mill floor | Recorded on its final operating day | 1:38 |
| Night ferry, lower deck | Two crossings, one conversation, no second take | 1:22 |
| A drained reservoir | A village that is normally underwater | 0:58 |
| Cold store, disused | Somewhere with no echo at all, which turns out to be unsettling | 1:11 |
Know a room?
The strongest episodes on this show came from somebody saying “you should hear this place”. That is still how it works.
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