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slanderhour

A weekly pre-sleep, post-thought audio play investigating the nature of latent boredom and the strip-mining of emotional bereavement. Semi is written & performed by Mark Simpson, Garth Simmons and Jim-John Harkness, and is produced by Stephen Landerhour for BBC Sounds.

society & culture

All Episodes

00:37:01

Semi - Builders

slanderhour ·

2023/01/23

An old man going a lone highway, Came, at the evening cold and gray, To a chasm vast and deep and wide. Through which was flowing a sullen tide The old man crossed in the twilight dim, The sullen stream had no fear for him; But he turned when safe on the other side And built a bridge to span the tide. “Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near, “You are wasting your strength with building here; Your journey will end with the ending day, You never again will pass this way; You’ve crossed the chasm, deep

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00:16:35

Semi - Don't

slanderhour ·

2023/01/16

Don't Don't do, Don't, do Don't do that. Don't pull faces, Don't tease the cat. Don't pick your ears, Don't be rude at school. Who do they think I am? Some kind of fool? One day they'll say Don't put toffee in my coffee don't pour gravy on the baby don't put beer in his ear don't stick your toes up his nose. Don't put confetti on your spaghetti and don't squash peas on your knees. Don't put ants in your pants don't put mustard in the custard don't chuck jelly at the telly and don't throw at a

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00:07:15

Kallidus - Luminary

slanderhour ·

2023/01/09

A rare transcript salvaged from Kallidus - Post cataclysm.

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00:26:00

Semi - Spiderman

slanderhour ·

2023/01/02

in my mind you are my friend swinging from the buildings that pierce the sky masked in privacy but shining of honesty you know who I am without my mask every night you take off your suit to mend every night I check my suit of pretend diving headfirst to be a part of your story looking from a distance with so much connection I follow you through your journey safe from the mortalities that extend you save me from my villain's end but our paths have never crossed my thanks is the silence ringing

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01:19:01

Semi - Empathy

slanderhour ·

2022/12/26

We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.

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00:14:00

Thomas Pynchon

slanderhour ·

2022/12/19

Love never goes away, Never completely dies, Always some souvenir Takes us by sad surprise. You went away from me, One rose was left behind — pressed in my Book of Hours, That is the rose I find … Though it’s another year, though it’s another me, under the rose is a drying tear, Under my linden tree …. Love never goes away, Not if it’s really true, It can return, by night, by day, Tender and green and new As the leaves from a linden tree, love, That I left with you.

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00:40:07

Semi - Wall

slanderhour ·

2022/12/12

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone, But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean, No one has seen them made or heard them made, But at spring mending-time we find them there. I let my neighbor know

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00:43:00

Semi - Film

slanderhour ·

2022/12/05

Adam Woodyatt is living in a field full of COWS while on a break from soap. Ian Beale actor Adam has moved into a mobile home after this split from wife of 22 weeks Beverley Sharp. He is living in Yorkshire ahead of an upcoming theatre role in Bradford. Adam and opera star Lesley Garrett will headline an acclaimed production of My Fair Lady at the Alhambra this autumn. Adam said of the role: “I’m not on stage loads but it’s so much fun. The story and characters are ingrained into musical theatre

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00:28:00

Semi - Telly

slanderhour ·

2022/11/28

The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your television set - Or better still, just don't install The idiotic thing at all. In almost every house we've been, We've watched them gaping at the screen. They loll and slop and lounge about, And stare until their eyes pop out. (Last week in someone's place we saw A dozen eyeballs on the floor.) They sit and stare and stare and sit Until they're hypnotised by it, Until

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00:46:22

Semi - Gone

slanderhour ·

2022/11/22

In a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy thinks A beautiful and silent Sphinx has watched me through the shifting gloom. Inviolate and immobile she does not rise she does not stir For silver moons are naught to her and naught to her the suns that reel. Red follows grey across the air, the waves of moonlight ebb and flow But with the Dawn she does not go and in the night-time she is there …

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00:31:34

Semi - Rep

slanderhour ·

2022/11/14

Even Solomon. A fame torn apart a name blotted honor dissipates by mere act the villain, women, The Victim Solomon, The acts, Lust. bevies of licentious libidinous passerby in ambuscade hunting destiny Even Solomon, Reputation buried in-between thighs A king captured Indelible stigma women got him.

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00:45:05

Kallidus - Gitz

slanderhour ·

2022/11/07

Gitz is the biggest search for teenage and pre-teen singers, with prizes and opportunities for young artists looking to develop and enlarge their talents. With industry judges including TV scouts, Record Label A&R, Management companies and more, Gitz is a great place to for young artists to get started in the industry and auditions are open right now! The Prizes The competition offers singers the chance to win thousands of Troog worth of Malts throughout their competition journey! Along side

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00:40:00

Kallidus - Museum

slanderhour ·

2022/10/31

In Kallidus, seaside kitsch is uber-cool. Visit and celebrate age-old resort-town traditions – sand beaches, fish, metalwork stalls and shore-side rides, all with a hip new twist. Capture a sunset whilst settled on the steps or a seafront bar, cafe or restaurant.

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00:25:00

Kallidus - Sail

slanderhour ·

2022/10/25

The weather of Kallidus is governed by winds that blow through the strait from easterly or westerly directions. In summer, the mainly dry season, the wind from the east or ‘levante’ brings warm and humid conditions and generates a rather persistent 'Rock top' cloud that hangs over the city area. Sea fog is not uncommon on these occasions. The westerly wind, however, brings hot, clear and mostly dry weather. Summer is dry and warm with an average of 3 hours of sunshine per day. The summer drought

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00:42:59

Semi - Sorry

slanderhour ·

2022/10/17

I was crazy To hurl curses I was nasty For all the abuses But now I regret I am at shame For all the troubles I am to blame I promise you I will turn a new leaf Never again, will I ever Give you grief I am sorry

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00:37:05

Semi - Dine

slanderhour ·

2022/10/10

Soprano is a 1958 American animated short film directed by David Chase and Ub Iwerks. It was produced in black and white by Warner Brothers and was released by Celebrity Productions. The cartoon is considered the debut of Tony Soprano and his girlfriend Carmella, although both characters appeared several months earlier in a test screening of Buggs Bunny Eats The Gabagool. Soprano was the third of Warner Brother's films to be produced, but it was the first to be distributed, because David Chase,

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00:25:32

Semi - Kurt Vonnegut

slanderhour ·

2022/10/03

Kurt Vonnegut, also known as Kurt Vonnegut Jr, is an Italian fictional character in the 1883 novel Slaughterhouse 5 by Carlo Collodi. Kurt Vonnegut is an elderly, impoverished woodcarver and the creator (and thus 'father') of Billy Pilgrim. He wears a yellow wig resembling cornmeal mush (called polendina), and consequently his neighbors call him "Polendina" to annoy him. The name Vonnegut is a Tuscan diminutive of the name Giuseppe (Italian for Joseph).

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00:38:00

Semi - Stay

slanderhour ·

2022/09/26

Don't stray Don't ever go away I should be much too smart for this You know it gets the better of me Sometimes When you and I collide I fall into an ocean of you Pull me out in time Don't let me drown Let me down I say it's all because of you And here I go Losing myControl I'm practicing your name So I can say it To your face it doesn't Seem right To look you in the eye Let all the things You mean to me Come tumbling out my mouth Indeed it's time Tell you why I say it's Infinitely true Say you'll

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00:31:00

Semi - Funeral

slanderhour ·

2022/09/19

Who can I blame when everyone is facing ! It will take time But it will always get better When all we need is to be understood Why do we expect an explanation What we ruin is this moment Where this journey is destined isn't a matter When one journey is all we have Who can I blame when everyone is facing ! It's okay, not to be okay For now, this wound may hurt But this will also become a scar And scars won't scare us So I'm smiling now Cause who can I blame when everyone is facing !

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00:25:24

Semi - Goggle

slanderhour ·

2022/09/11

I sit in the dark freezing abyss Waiting You sip your coffee desperately for warmth like a cub with his mother While I wait I refuse to move, despite the sound coverage of both the wind and machines outside Because I’m waiting Waiting for you And for them A truck approaches the entrance you guard The noise of the engine is beastly I reposition to get a better view whilst still being concealed Waiting Two figures emerge from the truck, and walk towards you Although they speak, the words are almost

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