Flotsam – Zeedrift
A meandering audio story of things washed ashore: messages in bottles, a cargo full of young handsome Turks, a lone wandering shoe, and the question of how to wash ashore alive.
Following the traces left behind — along tidelines, debris lines, and the faint marks of past floods — this essay wanders through the ways the sea scatters fragments of lives and, just as mysteriously, sometimes gathers them again. Does the sea offer gifts to the land? Or does it spit out what it doesn’t need?
Supported by Dutch Mediafund / Woord.nl VPRO 2015
Listen on Apple Podcast (Dutch Spoken)
Music Roald van Oosten. Mix Arno Peeters.
With: Marleen Stoltz, René Dijkstra, Sjoerd Boonstra, Jikke Visser, Teun Talsma, Pita en Willy Bouwman, Coba Harthoorn, Bettie Klabbers, Seitje Blaauwiekel, Greet de Pater, Remkje Bouman-Visser, Roel Westerhof, Edwin Emmens en Salih Türker.
Thanks to Hanneke van Schuylenburg, Esma Linneman, Jennifer Peterson, Hilbert de Vries, Magda Augusteijn, Eric Augusteijn en De bewoners van Schiermonnikoog.