Chosen by Nicholas Alexander
Do you ever pop on a podcast to fall asleep to? I do. Every night. If youâre anything like me, youâll be familiar with that feeling of drifting off while listening. Sentences swim around you, stripped of their meaning. Words collect in little incoherent groups at the edge of consciousness, as you tip-toe a tightrope on the outskirts of sleep.
In BBC Soundsâ comedy-horror âsleep-aidâ The Sink, writer Natasha Hodgson, producer Andy Goddard, and composer David Cumming, have somehow managed â through alchemy of language and sound â to recreate that exact feeling.
Even while trying to remember certain scenes to write this piece, I find them slipping away like dreams. I think itâs something to do with their lack of internal logic â shapes shift, locations lurch, characters change â but I canât be sure. What I do remember is that there are birds, scarecrows, fires, swimming pools, other things.