Our Cov

Coventry City of Culture Trust
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Explore Coventry through the eyes and ears of the ordinary folk of the city, and hear how their lives have been transformed throughout Coventry’s City of Culture year. 6 storytellers. 10 soundscapes. This is Our Cov. ‘Our Cov’ podcast series is a Coventry City of Culture Trust commission, created and produced by A Small Furry Bear Productions. Sound design and exec producer: Clare Freeman. Assistant producer: Holly Close. Features music by Mintakaa. You can hear their songs on Spotify. Thanks for listening, and if you like what you’ve heard - tell a friend!

  1. 09/05/2022

    Coventry Market: Monday morning for traders and customers

    The circular market hall has held a prominent and central focal point in Coventry’s architectural landscape for over 60 years. So in this soundscape, we slip inside to visit on an ordinary Monday morning in January. As we weave our way around the building for a full 360 tour, we enjoy listening in to the locals and traders’ passing exchanges and purchases. It’s not compulsory, but these soundscapes are best listened to while wearing headphones! All conversations are authentic and real. The recordings were captured using a binaural microphone between January and April 2022. You can also hear these soundscapes in the accompanying storyteller episodes in our first series. Sound design by Clare Freeman, opening music by Mintakaa. ‘Our Cov’ podcast series is a Coventry City of Culture Trust commission, created and produced by A Small Furry Bear Productions.

    4 min

  2. 09/05/2022

    Priory Place to Pool Meadow: Tweeting birds and busy bus stops

    There’s been a bus station in Coventry since way before the second world war. But it’s had many guises. Now known as Pool Meadow, it’s become a vibrant transport hub for travellers to access all corners of the city. But first we begin over the road in Priory Place - the now underground site of a mediaeval cathedral, once excavated by Tony Robinson and Channel 4’s Time Team programme. There’s no diggers in sight today - just the tranquillity of the birds in a quieter, greener corner of the city centre. It’s not compulsory, but these soundscapes are best listened to while wearing headphones! All conversations are authentic and real. The recordings were captured using a binaural microphone between January and April 2022. You can also hear these soundscapes in the accompanying storyteller episodes in our first series.

    8 min

  3. 09/05/2022

    River Sherbourne: Walking Riverside in Coundon

    Behind the Sherbourne Fields School is a path leading to Coundon Wedge Drive and Allesley village. Listen closely and we can hear the hum of the rush hour traffic in the distance. This time, we twist and turn walking along the river’s path, with the leaves and twigs crunching under our feet, taking in the birds and wildlife surrounding us on the outskirts of the city. We open and close the gates, and nod our head to a passing dog walker. It’s not compulsory, but these soundscapes are best listened to while wearing headphones! All conversations are authentic and real. The recordings were captured using a binaural microphone between January and April 2022. You can also hear these soundscapes in the accompanying storyteller episodes in our first series. Sound design by Clare Freeman, opening music by Mintakaa. ‘Our Cov’ podcast series is a Coventry City of Culture Trust commission, created and produced by A Small Furry Bear Productions.

    5 min

  4. 09/05/2022

    Earlsdon: Traffic along the high street, to the birds on Albany Road.

    Once home to Sir Frank Whittle, the pioneer of the jet engine and a hotspot for the watchmakers of Coventry, Earlsdon is littered with beautiful architecture and historical secrets. Yet today it’s a simple weekday morning as we walk along Earlsdon High street - pass the shops, pubs and workmen - towards a noisy hedge on Albany Road, with some tweeting visitors. The cars and buses pass us none the wiser. It’s not compulsory, but these soundscapes are best listened to while wearing headphones! All conversations are authentic and real. The recordings were captured using a binaural microphone between January and April 2022. You can also hear these soundscapes in the accompanying storyteller episodes in our first series. Sound design by Clare Freeman, opening music by Mintakaa. ‘Our Cov’ podcast series is a Coventry City of Culture Trust commission, created and produced by A Small Furry Bear Productions.

    5 min

  5. 09/05/2022

    Broadgate to The Burgess: Lady Godiva and Peeping Tom at Midday

    As 12 o’clock strikes, the Broadgate clock sees Lady Godiva appear whilst an ogling Peeping Tom looks on from above. Back in the city centre, we continue where we finished on episode four. We turn 180 degrees and walk across Broadgate, past the towering marble statue of Earl Leofric’s wife. We pay thanks to the accordion player outside Primark and head past the bus stops along The Burgess. It’s not compulsory, but these soundscapes are best listened to while wearing headphones! All conversations are authentic and real. The recordings were captured using a binaural microphone between January and April 2022. You can also hear these soundscapes in the accompanying storyteller episodes in our first series. Sound design by Clare Freeman, opening music by Mintakaa. ‘Our Cov’ podcast series is a Coventry City of Culture Trust commission, created and produced by A Small Furry Bear Productions.

    5 min

  6. 09/05/2022

    Cannon Park Shopping Centre: Morning shoppers in Canley

    On the south west of the city, turning off the A45, just a stone’s throw from the main campus of the ironically named University of Warwick, is Canley. On this episode, we’re not far from the birthplace of the late political activist Sir Henry Parkes - a staunch advocate for improving the conditions of the working classes. We’re inside Cannon Park Shopping Centre. If we listen closely, we catch snippets of multiple languages from the shoppers wandering past. Our thoughts are interrupted often by the sound of yet another Tesco trolley, as we sit opposite the opticians and let the world pass us by.  It’s not compulsory, but these soundscapes are best listened to while wearing headphones! All conversations are authentic and real. The recordings were captured using a binaural microphone between January and April 2022. You can also hear these soundscapes in the accompanying storyteller episodes in our first series. Sound design by Clare Freeman, opening music by Mintakaa. ‘Our Cov’ podcast series is a Coventry City of Culture Trust commission, created and produced by A Small Furry Bear Productions.

    4 min

  7. 09/05/2022

    The Precincts: Tune in to a saxophonist and follow the fountains

    We’re back in the city centre in this episode, beside the central circular fountain where both precincts meet with Market Way and Smithford Way. We follow the water, taking in the poetry on the floor titled ‘Weaving Coventry’ towards the Upper Precinct fountains, drop a pound in the pot of the saxophonist busker and head towards the Lady Godiva statue in Broadgate. It’s not compulsory, but these soundscapes are best listened to while wearing headphones! All conversations are authentic and real. The recordings were captured using a binaural microphone between January and April 2022. You can also hear these soundscapes in the accompanying storyteller episodes in our first series. Sound design by Clare Freeman, opening music by Mintakaa. ‘Our Cov’ podcast series is a Coventry City of Culture Trust commission, created and produced by A Small Furry Bear Productions.

    4 min

  8. 09/05/2022

    Tile Hill: Listening to the wind in Limbrick Woods, opposite Jardine Crescent

    Once a part of the Forest of Arden, Limbrick Woods is one of several woodlands that still exist amongst the housing estates in Tile Hill. If you were driving past, you could blink and miss it.  Wondering where it is? It’s just a stone's throw from Jardine Crescent. Take a few minutes out to listen to the birds and the wind above you, to your side, in front and behind… It’s not compulsory, but these soundscapes are best listened to while wearing headphones! All conversations are authentic and real. The recordings were captured using a binaural microphone between January and April 2022. You can also hear these soundscapes in the accompanying storyteller episodes in our first series. Sound design by Clare Freeman, opening music by Mintakaa. ‘Our Cov’ podcast series is a Coventry City of Culture Trust commission, created and produced by A Small Furry Bear Productions.

    5 min
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Explore Coventry through the eyes and ears of the ordinary folk of the city, and hear how their lives have been transformed throughout Coventry’s City of Culture year. 6 storytellers. 10 soundscapes. This is Our Cov. ‘Our Cov’ podcast series is a Coventry City of Culture Trust commission, created and produced by A Small Furry Bear Productions. Sound design and exec producer: Clare Freeman. Assistant producer: Holly Close. Features music by Mintakaa. You can hear their songs on Spotify. Thanks for listening, and if you like what you’ve heard - tell a friend!

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