Episodes
| Episode | First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | 20130712 | Latido is Spanish for heartbeat, and is a leitmotif in these three stories by Louise Stern, written in Mexico in 2013.
Each story features a deaf central character, and has a Mexican setting:
Louise Stern grew up in Fremont, California, and is the fourth generation of her family to be born deaf. She says, "I have always felt that Mexico is a country where words are flesh ... People there, hearing or deaf, are very comfortable with communicating via gestures. Mexico is the place where I feel the least deaf. Although the incidence of deafness is more or less the same in most of Mexico as in the rest of the world (less than one percent), there is a village in Yucatan state in Mexico where everyone uses sign language as a matter of fact, because there is a genetic quirk that means that more people than usual are deaf. This village is not the setting of these stories written for the BBC, but time spent there has influenced the stories."
Programme 1:
Louise Stern now lives and works in London as an artist and writer. Chattering, her first collection of short stories, was published in 2010. The Electric Box, her first commission for radio, featured in the Radio 4 series 'Where Were You' in 2012.
Reader: Louise Brealey
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
Steven feels settled in the village, until his lover's ex-husband starts causing trouble. Three stories by Louise Stern, written in Mexico in 2013 |
| 02 | 20130719 | Latido is Spanish for heartbeat, and is a leitmotif in these three stories by Louise Stern, written in Mexico in 2013.
Each story features a deaf central character, and has a Mexican setting:
Louise Stern grew up in Fremont, California, and is the fourth generation of her family to be born deaf. She says, "I have always felt that Mexico is a country where words are flesh ... People there, hearing or deaf, are very comfortable with communicating via gestures. Mexico is the place where I feel the least deaf. Although the incidence of deafness is more or less the same in most of Mexico as in the rest of the world (less than one percent), there is a village in Yucatan state in Mexico where everyone uses sign language as a matter of fact, because there is a genetic quirk that means that more people than usual are deaf. This village is not the setting of these stories written for the BBC, but time spent there has influenced the stories."
Programme 2:
Louise Stern now lives and works in London as an artist and writer. Chattering, her first collection of short stories, was published in 2010. The Electric Box, her first commission for radio, featured in the Radio 4 series 'Where Were You' in 2012.
Reader: Louise Brealey
At sea on the fishing boat, Mudo has one particular task to perform. Three stories by Louise Stern, written in Mexico in 2013 |
| 03 | 20130726 | Latido is Spanish for heartbeat, and is a leitmotif in these three stories by Louise Stern, commissioned specially and written in Mexico earlier in 2013. Each story features a deaf central character, and each has a Mexican setting.
Louise Stern writes:
"I have always felt that Mexico is a country where words are flesh ... People there, hearing or deaf, are very comfortable with communicating via gestures. Mexico is the place where I feel the least deaf. Although the incidence of deafness is more or less the same in most of Mexico as in the rest of the world (less than one percent), there is a village in Yucatan state in Mexico where everyone uses sign language as a matter of fact, because there is a genetic quirk that means that more people than usual are deaf. This village is not the setting of these stories written for the BBC, but time spent there has influenced the stories."
Latido III
Itzel is weighed down with a secret, something all-too-human she witnessed by the shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Louise Stern grew up in Fremont, California, and is the fourth generation of her family to be born deaf. She now lives and works in London as an artist and writer. 'Chattering', her first collection of short stories, was published in 2010. 'The Electric Box', her first commission for radio, featured in the series 'Where Were You ...' - also produced by Sweet Talk - in 2012.
Reader: Louise Brealey
Itzel sees something all-too-human by the shrine of the Virgin. Three stories by Louise Stern, written in Mexico in 2013 |