{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Re:sound #220 The Forest & Flight Show","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61009a3631fd81f125b34e75/61009aca121e70001399e32d.jpg?height=200","description":"This hour gravity, antigravity, magical trees and flying carpets.\n\nThe Magic Carpet Flight Manual\nby Cathy FitzGerald & Matt Thompson (A Rockethouse Production, BBC World Service, 2010)\nCathy FitzGerald explores the past, present, and very real future of the magic carpet and wonders what our desire to defy gravity tells us about ourselves. Along the way, we meet a Japanese astronaut who took a real carpet into space — and flew it, a Muslim whose prayer mat rises above the mundane and a physicist working on levitation in the quantum world.\n\nGravitation and Other Graces\nby Stephanie Rowden (Re:sound debut, 2016)\nOnce upon a time, producer Stephanie Rowden stumbled upon an elderly, gnome-ish, armchair philosopher named Wolfgang. Ailing and living alone, he'd attracted a devoted circle of much-younger friends and caretakers. Stephanie found herself unexpectedly drawn into Wolfgang's orbit, and, in this audio essay, she retraces her path from documentarian to caretaker herself, eventually in search of a very distinctive tree that was to be Wolfgang's final resting place.\n\nPhoto\nDiego Langellotti\nhttps://goo.gl/Ibg68u","author_name":"Third Coast International Audio Festival"}