The Silt Verses - Chapter 34 (early release)

Hi, folks - please find your early release of The Silt Verses Chapter 34 attached and in your Acast feeds!

Please also note that this episode comes with an audio content warning and introduction, which I've repeated in text below; the episode itself starts at the 2.00 mark.

Hope you enjoy the listen as ever, and thank you so much for your support.

And as we mention below, if you have any questions, concerns or requests around the episode, of course please let us know - you're our community and we want to do right by you as responsible storytellers.

The transcript will be live here by the morning of launch day.

J&M

Cast

This episode features Michelle Kelly, Méabh de Brún, Alison Campbell, Jimmie Yamaguchi, Ishani Kanetkar, Laurence Owen, and Lucille Valentine.

Additional voices by Daisy McNamara, Steven Zivic, and Lucien Spooner.

Content warning (notes)

This episode features imprisonment, forced transformation and violent death (1.45-6.45), explosions (17.25-18.45), sustained depiction of civilians dealing with the impact of a military rocket launch, gunshots (28.55-29.25), fire and peril (30.25-33.45), discussion of displacement and murder (38.55-39.45).

Content Warning (audio)

Hi, everyone,

This is Jon, I’m one half of The Silt Verses team with my wife Muna, and it is the 17th October 2023.

After some discussion, we decided it would be responsible to begin with an audio content warning, which we don’t normally do.

That may seem a little strange, because this episode is by no means the most intense or explicit we’ve produced.

However, although the episode was written and recorded a very long time ago now, in the spring and summer of 2023, the storyline does very unavoidably centre around military airstrikes as experienced by civilians on the ground, which I expect is a topic that for many of us hits all too close to home right now.

In our show, the nature of those airstrikes is heightened, fantastical and absurd, the events follow on organically from what you’ve already heard in the season, and in short, we don’t believe there’s any way of misinterpreting what you’re about to hear as a deliberate attempt to sensationalise, trivialise or exploit the atrocities of the past two weeks conducted upon innocent people in both Palestine and Israel, nor specifically upon the devastating and horrific air bombardments now being inflicted upon Palestinian civilians.

However, we know that some of our audience members may very understandably want to avoid this kind of storyline altogether right now, and our duty of care to you is the most important thing, so we wanted to give you that additional warning in advance.

Of course, you are our community, so if you listen to the episode and you have any further questions or concerns for us, if there’s anything you want to raise with us, please, please do, and we’ll do our very best to answer.

Anyway, that’s enough out of me. Wishing love, safety and happiness to every single one of you. As ever, thank you so much for listening