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The Objects

Episode 5 of 6

What do shipwrecked objects have in common? Caron Keating features in the cosmic comedy of connections. From 1995.

Revealing the links between the art of siren writing, the discovery of pants, the Church of England motorcycle display team and the flamenco guitar.

Oliver Postgate narrates a stream of bizarre coincidences.

Ben Moor’s cosmic comedy of connections.

With:

Caron Keating
Raymond Baxter
Rebecca Front
Dan Strauss
Kerry Shale
Geoff McGivern
Ben Moor

Producer: Jon Naismith

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1995.

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15 minutes

Last on

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