On The Hill podcast – Season One: Falmouth Cemetery
- Submitting institution
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Falmouth University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 382
- Type
- Q - Digital or visual media
- Publisher
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- Month
- August
- Year
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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B - Dark Economies
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- As built environments for death, mourning and the departed, cemeteries are connected to storytelling. Creative responses to cemeteries demonstrate the engaging, moving spectrum that immersive storytelling of the departed can achieve (Perthi Kov, 2017; Richards, 2004; Saunders, 2018; WildWorks, 2018).
On The Hill is a research project and narrative podcast founded, produced, written and edited by me. This project investigates Cornish cemeteries and the people buried there and reassembles, retells and reimagines their stories. The podcast form is at the core of this research as a creative manoeuvre of re-mediation of writing and research echoing back to oral storytelling (Llinares 2018; Berry 2016; Bolter & Grusin 1999; Stranger et al. 2014; Barnard 2017).
Available via open-access, free digital media, this podcast aims to enhance the form through combining historical research, immersive audio, and creative non-fiction. These methods bring together old and new stories to illuminate aspects of the present by examining our past. Understanding death as another stage of storytelling, On The Hill looks at each life, reveals a moment in history and links to the construction of the cemetery.
New writing is commissioned for each episode in response to a particular grave. Season One focuses on Falmouth Cemetery and provokes questions and identifies potential lessons for storytelling, for constructions of history, for memory.
This ongoing research brings together historical research, creative non-fiction, creative writing, transmedia storytelling and discussion on practice offering insight into death, place, personal experience and writing practice.
The project has been presented in a variety of contexts including an online literature festival, a history society series, via interviews on radio and radio broadcast (Soundart Radio), has been featured in podcast selections, and was awarded a Gorsedh Kernow medal for Creativity.
Research output: 11 episodes of the podcast
Contextual: Podcast contribution, talks
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- Non-English
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