On Silence Podcast Letter Four: Jo Major

Eleven writers, four months, one podcast. Letter four by Jo Major, explores Lucia's attempt to regain her family and her connections to the land. This research project & literary podcast was written with MA Creative Writing students at the University of Lincoln. Credits (Freesound): Slovakian Folk Band by Robinhood76, Coffeeshop in Vienna by Alcappuccino, forest river grills waldviertel by noctaro, bells from train crossing by vollkornbrot, vogel by JulianaJK and Slovakia Fujara by Ondrosik. These are all available on Freesound under the Licenses: Attribution NonCommercial 3.0, Creative Commons 3.0, Creative Commons 0, Attribution NonCommercial 4.0.

Episode URL: https://onsilenceliterarypodcast.podbean.com/e/letter-four-jo-major/
Also published: https://www.lincolnreview.org/onsilence

On Silence Podcast

Eleven writers, four months, one podcast – the brief was simple. Our aim was to recreate the dynamics of a writer’s room to produce an original literary podcast series. During the second half of 2023, we engaged in regular meetings with our groups of writers who worked in collaboration to produce thirteen episodes. We chose to write On Silence in the epistolary form – a series of letters – in order to explore hidden conversations between family members, friends, strangers and confidants. Our writers were presented with the first letter, then instructed to continue the story. Each writer wrote, edited end recorded up to two letters; each contribution was rigorously reviewed by the other members of the team to create, what we hope to be, a cohesive, well-crafted narrative. The process – like the story – led us to surprising discoveries. Whether the experiment worked or not is up to you to decide…

Contributors

Dorsa Daneshvar Khoshkar Vandani, Burcu Güney Yılmaz, Shivang Ambardar, Martyn Rosser, Ellie Wilson, Beth Parker, Abbie Laycock, Tori Wood and Jo Major.

Project Leads/Producers

Sherezade García Rangel and Amy Lilwall.