About the project

Hidden voices and haunted landscapes are conjured up in ten unique stories from the imagination of visionary writer David Rudkin. Join a stellar cast including Juliet Stevenson, Toby Jones, Josie Lawrence, Michael Pennington and Stephen Rea, among many others on an enlightening journey across the British Isles with this dramatic audio cycle that will transform your sense of the landscape around you.

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PlacePrints are free to listen to on your favourite podcast platform including: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Radio Public, Breaker, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Soundcloud and more.

Also available on Breaker, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Soundcloud and more.

Cast and Creative Team

Writer: David Rudkin
Director: Jack McNamara
Sound Designer: Adam McCready (Poetical Machines Ltd)

Reviews

★★★★ 1/2 "PlacePrints is a gripping series...These stories deserve careful listening" The Reviews Hub

"PlacePrints are quite unlike anything written about the 'place' of place and the meanings of belonging, of the necessity to listen to the land" Gareth Evans

★★★★ 1/2 "Standing somewhere between ghost story and New Nature Writing, Rudkin's homage to the British landscape is eerie, and unexpected...PlacePrints is a gripping series...These stories deserve careful listening" The Reviews Hub

"It's an exciting story, very visual and dramatic" NUMBER 9 - Theatre, Music and Film (PlacePrints episode 4 parts 1 & 2)

Cast and Creative Team

Writer: David Rudkin
Director: Jack McNamara
Sound Designer: Adam McCready (Poetical Machines Ltd)

Written by David Rudkin, whose sixty-year writing career spans across stage, screen and radio, each audio piece is accompanied by a short film shot on location by multi-award winning filmmaker Grant Gee.

With special thanks to Gareth Evans.

Title image: David Rudkin; photo credit: Grant Gee

Podcast cover art by Ruth Disney