Asphyxia: The "Idiote", the Library Wifi and the Suppressed Safe #10 - Misunderstandings - 19th July
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Description
Originally commissioned in 2022 as part of **https://radioart.zone/monday-12-september)** tapestry of 22-hour radio productions, this project by **[Daniel R. Wilson](https://miraculousagitations.com)** is re-presented here in episodic form. **'Asphyxia'** hacks the antagonising systems which thwart and forestall projects (its name also acknowledges the asphyxiating atmosphere of long-form radio when made by a single person. It is a damaged would-be radio documentary exploring the Narnia of restricted access material and gatekept employment.
Asphyxia's delirium continues in this episode with excerpts from a 1921 paranoid etymological tract - 'Puss in Pye Corner' - jutting into commuter-friendly low-budget podcast matter and dictaphonics.
Finally, a chance to inspect a British Library Suppressed Safe book is presented: 'Diving for Treasure' (1926) by G. Williams. Meanwhile, BBC Radio 4 implodes under its own gravitas, birthing a new star in the form of 'spoken word newspaper reports'