Listening to this week’s Forest fables has made me wonder if the oft-maligned rise of spoken word recordings isn’t actually improving our understanding. I’d love to hear your thoughts
It was Alan Garner’s audio story, The Common Dean, that started me thinking. This second in a series of Forest fables spins a mysterious yarn about an incomer discovering the history layered beneath the fallen leaves of an ancient Cheshire wood. It was thrilling to hear the voice of a writer who is one of my all-time literary heroes, but it sat on top of a discombobulating rumble as if he wasn’t speaking in a forest at all.
As soon as I mentioned it to Pascal Wyse, who created the soundtrack, he pointed out that the first three seconds of the audio file were missing. I listened again as soon as it was fixed, and those three seconds involved the sound of a train arriving. Suddenly the the rumble made sense and the story spun into its proper perspective.
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