Episode 2: Cement Bags by Sara Clifford

“Cement Bags”, River Adur, Sara Clifford Ever passed a disused building and wondered about what stories it had to tell? Cement Bags brings to life the hustle and bustle of the Cement Factory at Beeding. Meet the women who worked there on the telephone exchange and listen to their lives in parallel to the building, from its glory days as an industrial hub to its poignant decline. Credits Written by Sara Clifford Read by Jean Trend Recorded by Oliver Cherer Edited by Elliot Lampitt Commissioned and produced by Applause in partnership with the South Downs National Park Authority With special thanks to Dylan Moore and Ian Weild We hope you enjoyed listening to this episode, there are nine more podcasts for you to enjoy so please subscribe to this series. Sara Clifford Lead writer/Dramaturg for Full Harvest www.saraclifford.com Sara works as a writer, director and community artist, and has written over forty plays including commissions for the Soho Theatre, York Theatre Royal & Nottingham Playhouse. She has been Writer in Residence at the University of Brighton and at Chichester Festival Theatre, and her work has been produced in France, Italy, Guadeloupe and Hong Kong. Her play A Thousand Days, was a Finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn award. As Artistic Director of her company, Inroads ( www.inroads.org.uk)  she works with local communities to write place-based work rooted in their stories, and has developed six site-specific participatory pieces, with a new show coming for 2022, Two Pairs of Eyes, seed funded by Farnham Maltings. In 2019, she was Writer in Residence for the South Downs Park/ Applause, and the resulting show, Cherry Soup, toured rural venues across the Park.  She is the lead writer on Full Harvest, the project which developed from this.