Shadowbahn
Steve Erickson's music-history road-trip through a ruptured America
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Its 2021. A black sister and her white brother are driving from LA to Michigan to see their mother when the Twin Towers materialise in South Dakota. The decide to take a diversion.
Listening to the twin playlists their Dad made in September 2011, they begin an epic road-trip through an American in Disunion. History has been diverted. Instead of Elvis, America got his stillborn twin Jesse. The Beatles didn't happen. John Kennedy no longer a President. It's a world where atrocities happen and music is slowly disappearing.
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'Shadowban' was first broadcast June 2018 for Dangerous Visions. Starring Mike Iveson, Antu Yacob, Robbie Tann and Patch Darragh.
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Produced and Directed by Judith Kampfner and Steve Bond. A Corporation For Independent Media production for BBC Radio 4
Winner of two New York Radio Awards
Shortlisted for Aria award​
Interested in adaptations?
See my 'Adapting Shadowhbahn' blog