Eleven hours for sleep. The complete story is told once, followed by the same quiet ambience through the rest of the night. This bonus accompanies the holiday live stream.
Two nights ago a table was set in a wooden house, and a place was left empty, and a woman said her father's name to a chair. Tonight, in our imagined village, a priest walks past that house on his way home from saying the office for the dead, sees the candle in the window, knows exactly what it means, and keeps walking.
The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice.
The second of two specials that open Season Seven, the Slavic season. How Christian days of remembrance shared a season with household customs, sometimes overlapping and sometimes meeting opposition. The slips of paper with the names of the dead handed in at the church door. A Polish burial ground on the first of November, lit like a town. A boy from the borderland who grew up to write a short verse play about a chapel at night, three kinds of ghost and one strange line, and how that play became the book a whole nation carries. And a night in Warsaw when the play was closed. Told plainly and slowly, distinguishing historical accounts, poetic invention and our imagined village.
Watch the live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcpB5MgAJ3E
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Chapters
0:00 Welcome
4:30 The Same Night, Another Name
11:39 Two Days at the Start of November
22:40 The Long Argument
29:15 The Souls' Day
36:25 A Burial Ground Lit Like a Town
43:27 The Boy From the Borderland
51:48 A Chapel at Night
57:55 Three Kinds of Ghost
1:05:20 The Line the Play Is Built On
1:11:30 The Poem That Became a Country
1:20:05 The Night of the Closed Theatre
1:25:09 Goodnight. And the Two Candles
1:30:51 Rain ambience to drift off