Weird Stories; If Fog Could Sing

Realised and edited by Charlie PriceEDWARD: Charlie PriceFLORA: Elizabeth Kuti(Copyright Pinter Estate)

1) That's Your Trouble2) Trouble in the Works- (N.B. As published in Pinter: Plays II, this sketch ends on the line "Trouble". When asked by FIBBS "What do they want to make in its place?", WILLS replies, in line with the title, theme, and metaphorical conceit of the sketch, "Trouble" but, if memory serves, Pinter changed the last line in certain performances and screen interpretations of this sketch. The BBC, for example, released an animated version of the sketch in the 70s in which WILLS answers that the factory workers don't wish to make trouble, they wish to make something else. Love. And then, quite whimsically, (and comedically), a flourish of red hearts invaded the screen).  3) Last to Go4) Special Offer5) Apart From ThatMusic:Messaien: II. Dieu est Saint from Meditations sur le mystere de TriniteMessaien: Turangalila Symphony, II.You by The AquatonesStation by Lapsley(Copyright)- Pinter Estate

Music:Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte  Pavane for a dead princess  (played at the piano by the composer) Content Warning:Strong language, mental illness theme, xenophobia

Music:Franz Schmidt: Prelude and Fugue in D major "Hallelujah" (for organ)Jean Langlais: Chant de PaixContent Warning:Strong language, mental illness theme, disturbing scenes, obesity references

A sound production (no pun intended!) of the classic play.Directed, realised, and edited by Charlie PricePerformed by Charlie Price (as Tom, Laura, and Jim) and Elizabeth Kuti (as Amanda)MUSIC (not in chronological order):R. Strauss: Ein HeldenlebenTraditional: Jamaica, or The Jovial Broom Man, or a Kent Soldier's Exact Relation of All His Travels in Every Nation · The City Waites, How the World Wags: Social Music for a 17th-Century EnglishmanBryzgi Shampanskovo (Splashes Of Champaigne) Tango - Orkiestr pod upravlenijem Luisi (Orchestra dir. by Lewis?) Noginskij Zavod, ca 1930 (USSR pressing)Jazz Age Ballroom Waltz of Unknown Name-  Anon. Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major, mv. IIBorodin: String Quarter No. 2, mv. IIIButterworth: Loveliest of trees from A Shropshire LadElgar: Chanson de MatinElgar: Salut d'Amour"Nearer my God to Thee" sung by John McCormackTchaikovsky: Waltz of the Flowers from Nutcracker (Stokowski, 1926, as played on Grammar phone)Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2"Were you There?", spiritual sung by Paul Robeson"Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen", spiritual sung by Marian Anderson"Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child", spiritual sung by Bessie Griffin"When Summer in Gone" (1920s foxtrot on Grammar phone) "Blow ye Winds, High-O", The Almanac Singers Debussy: La Fille Avec Les Cheveux de LinDebussy: Claire de Lune (music box version)Saint-Saens: Bassoon Sonata, Mv. IIIContent Warning:Infrequent uses of racist language

A rhapsody of monologue, dramatic sketches, phone calls, and soundscapes.A speaker-set with a bizarre defect, a concerning voicemail, an ultra-competitive game of chess, a worrying barber, communication difficulties...Enjoy...Written, performed, realised, and edited by Charlie Price(Also featuring Liz Kuti)MUSIC (non-chronological):Miles Davis: All Blues from Kind of BlueHolst: First Suite in E flat for Wind OrchestraWood: Canticles, (Magnificat), in E flatSchumann: Dichterliebe (1)Messiaen: Le Banquet CelesteContent Warning:Some strong language, fear, loud noises/decibel levels

Short Play by Harold PinterPerformed and edited by Charlie PriceContent Warning:Strong Language

Music:Honegger: Pastorale d'eteHonegger: from Symphony No. 3 "Liturgique" 

Music:Nunc Dimittis, Michael Tippet

Music:Cinnamon Horses from Wild God (2024)- Nick CaveContent Warning:Fetish/Sex references/language

"This is how the world will endNot with a bang, but a whimper"The Hollow Men, T. S. Eliot

Content Warning:Strong language, upsetting references

Monologue written, performed, edited by Charlie PriceContent Warning:Strong language, homophobia, references some viewers may find offensive

Content Warning:Strong language, horror

MUSIC:The Beatles, Wild Honey Pie (The White Album)Nick Drake, RivermanNick Drake, Man In a ShedContent Warning:   (This episode is particularly disturbing. Please proceed with caution. Though its strongest content is tongue-in-cheek and metaphorically suggestive rather than realist in tone, some may still find it objectionable) Holocaust theme, content some listeners may find offensive (particularly as it pertains to aging and veganism themes), cannibalism theme, strong bloody horror  

Rewritten and rerecordedContent Warning:References to rape, language

Rewritten and rerecordedMUSIC: Poulenc  Magnum Mysterium from four Christmas motetsContent Warning:Strong language, strong sex, infant mortality

Rewritten and rerecorded.MUSIC:Leo Ornstein Piano Sonata No. 4, Mv. IIContent Warning:Sex references, injury detail

Music List:"Harbour Reflections" from Southwold Sonatina by James RaeMv. II: Andante from Poulenc's Sonata for Two ClarinetsLigeti, Requiem, Mv. II: KyrieBerio Sequenza III for Female VoiceContent Warning:Mental Illness, Suicide Theme, Menace

Music:Adam Lay Y Bounden- Boris OrdIn the Bleak Midwinter- HolstWhile Shepherd's Watched Their Flocks by NightAway In a Manger arr. CleoburyThe Shepherd's Farewell- BerliozContent Warning:Mental illness theme

"It started to snowAnd you said it was like Christmas.But you were wrong,It wasn't like Christmas at all"Just Like Christmas, LowContent Warning:Menace

Play for single actor and mobile phone device

Trigger Warning:This episode contains references to trigger warningsContent Warning:This episode contains references to rape and animal cruelty. Also infrequent strong language. 

Three.Enjoy.Written, performed, and edited by Charlie Price Content Warning:Suicide references, creepy mood

Transference is a psychological phenomenon where a person unconsciously redirects feelings, thoughts, and behaviors from one significant figure in their past to another, often a therapist. AI generated definition of TransferenceContent Warning:Threat

Music:Max Richter: Vivaldi's Four Seasons Recomposed, Winter; 3Charles Villiers Stanford; Organ Prelude in F majorVivaldi: Four Seasons, L'Inverno   Mv. II: LargoContent Warning:Mental Illness Theme

Music:"Give Me a Ticket to Heaven"Victorian/Edwardian Sentimental Parlour SongSung by Benjamin LuxonContent Warning:Strong sexual violence references, strong sex references, strong language 

Victor Shortt (with three Ts)Fourth InstalmentAn Ambient Monologue Written, performed, edited by Charlie PriceContent Warning:Infrequent language, horror

Victor Shortt (With Three Ts)  Part III:"Some Mahler"Written, performed, edited by Charlie PriceMahler's 5th (excerpts)- performed by Klaus Makela and the Concertgebouw Orchestra at the BBC Proms Content Warning:Infrequent Strong Lanuguage

New Year's SpecialSketches and Monologues (with ambience)Performers: Charlie Price and Elizabeth KutiWritten and edited by Charlie PriceMusic (including excerpts and loops)Sacrum Convivium- MessiaenLivre du Saint Sacrement- MessiaenLe Banquet Celeste- MessiaenDown in the Hole- Tom WaitsWhere Sheep May Safely Graze (organ)- BachThe Cherry Tree Carol/Sans Day Carol- (Carols from Kings 2012)Knee 5 from Einstein on the Beach- Phillip Glass/Robert WilsonPrelude in A minor- ChopinRockin' Around the Christmas Tree- Brenda LeeI Wonder Why- Dion and the BelmontsContent Warning:Threat, Strong Lanugage

Content Warning:Strong language

"A gentlemen came by and asked why I tolerated the vulture. "I'm helpless," I said. "He came and started hacking at me". "The Vulture, Franz Kafka"The short story is a cage looking for a bird."Franz KafkaContent Warning:Scenes some may find disturbing 

Music: O Fair Enough Are Sky and Plain-  Butterworth, lyrics Housman

Music:P. Duaks: The Sorcerer's ApprenticeA. Khachaturian: Masquerade WaltzContent Warning:Moderate threat

Music:Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5, Movement IIIContent Warning:Mental illness/disability theme

"Our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To thee do we cry, us banished children of Eve, to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning, and weeping from this veil of tears. O most gracious advocate..."Salve ReginaContent Warning:Strong sex/sex work References

A monologue.Content Warning:Disturbing content, xenophobia

"Maybe you're the problem"Ava MaxContent Warning:Strong language/alcohol theme/threat

Sonic sketches and meditationsWritten, composed, edited, arranged, and performed by Charlie PriceContent Warning:Occasional strong language/disturbing scenes

"They expect no payment"MeContent Warning:Abuse references, strong sex

"Symmetry seems appropriate".Me, Autism Assessment, 2024

"Hope there's someone to take care of me when I die"Anthony and the Johnsons

"This little girl inside me is retreating to her favourite place.Go into the garden, under the ivy."Kate BushContent Warning:Moderate Sex References, Alcoholism Theme

More peculiar sketches, situations, scrapes, and scapes.Written, composed, and edited by Charlie Price.Performers: Charlie Price and Elizabeth Kuti Content Warning:Strong language, threat, horror, injury detail

"Today, all day I had the feelingthe world was just an addressno better than alright.But here you are and what was just a world is a star..."West Side StoryContent Warning:Dark humour some may find troubling

"For which I am an ambassador in chains: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak." Ephesians; 6:20  Content Warning:Strong injury detail, homicide theme