The Quick and the Dead - An oral history of Brompton Cemetery "The Dead" ventures below ground. Brompton Cemetery is home to over 200,000 permanent residents ranging from Emmeline Pankhurst to newly buried infants. It’s also a great place to “time travel,” as H.G. Wells discovered. You can keep appointments with the past, and with future events that are waiting for us to find our way to them at last. The Voices of the Dead are: Louise Westmoreland,  Phil Walder, Lieve Carchon, Stephen Coates, Dr. Matthew Green and Vanessa Woolf. The idea of seeing faces "dimly reflected" in the stones is a quote from poet Jean Sprackland's wonderful book "These Silent Mansions". Oral history by Laura Mitchison with co-production and sound design by Steve Urquhart.

The Quick and the Dead - an oral history of Brompton Cemetery "The Quick" is an ancient word for the living and tender flesh, beloved of Wild West gunslingers. Of London’s “Magnificent Seven” Cemeteries, Brompton Cemetery is the rebellious little sister. In the 1970s and 1980s, as the narrators recall, she was a cheeky shortcut between Chelsea’s counterculture and the Leather bars of Earls Court. Brompton’s “outlaw spirit” has been tamed, but she remains a sanctuary for the wild-at-heart, and for wildlife. Soaring above the human voices, you’ll hear crows conspiring and cicadas shimmering. The Voices of the Quick are: Sarah Cheesbrough, Sasha de Suinn, Duggie Fields, Shirley Wiggins, John Lenihan, Daphne the squirrel, and Joe Mellen. Oral history and production by Laura Mitchison with co-production and sound design by Steve Urquhart.