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Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about mothers and motherhood. We hear a story of a recurrent dream about searching for an absent mother, Heather O'Neill delves into the ways her mother and her own experience of motherhood have threaded through her life, and the writer Nikesh Shukla reflects on ways to remember a mother you've lost.Fragments Of My Mother Written and read by Nikesh ShuklaMotherhood, a short story Featuring Heather O'Neill Produced by Sarah CuddonCall Me Mother Featuring Raven Mandella Produced by Suzie McCarthyMother, Unknown Produced by Nanna Hauge KristensenProduction team: Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about letter writing - Mother’s Day cards travelling thousands of miles home, love letters that are cherished, hidden and lost, and a one-way correspondence bringing comfort during chemotherapy. Letters to My Dear Lovers Produced by Sofia SaldanhaYou Go First Featuring Helene Ishikawa Produced by Rachel IshikawaUrsula Bloom speaking to Jack Singleton Home This Afternoon, BBC Radio, 1965From Me To You Featuring Alison Hitchcock and Brian Greenley Produced by Helen Zaltzman First broadcast in The Allusionist podcast episode ‘66. Open Me part 1’ frommetoyouletters.co.ukProduction Team: Eleanor McDowall Produced by Andrea Rangecroft A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures that centre around acts of love - from the story of Ruth Coker Burks, who became a loving caretaker for hundreds of men during the AIDS epidemic, to the poet Nikita Gill's look at a love which ended in its beginning.Jewels from the Sun Written and read by Nikita GillThe Last Act Featuring Anita Barrows Produced by Phil Smith This interview first appeared in the documentary To Bear Witness on BBC Radio 3 in Between the Ears.Comet Dust Featuring Ruth Coker Burks Produced by Jodie Taylor and Chloe WhiteProduction team: Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4