Between the Ears

When You're Gone, You're Gone

When You're Gone, You're Gone
Radio Times
Review by:
Jane Anderson

A truly beautiful piece of work in which the composer Jocelyn Pook and producer Kate Bland seamlessly weave repeated words, phrases and interviews around haunting songs and music. It is Pook’s very personal examination of death and what, if anything, comes afterwards.

She explains at the start that her father died when she was 12 and her sister when she was 18. Jocelyn and her mother, recorded just before she died, have a particularly strong need to question the existence of an afterlife, which I will not spoil by attempting to rationalise, just warn you that it is desperately sad.

About this programme

English composer Jocelyn Pook discusses the customs and conventions surrounding death, drawing on conversations with shopkeepers, friends, an Irish mystic and her own mother, who died last year.

Cast and crew

Crew

Producer
Kate Bland
Categories
Music

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