Sound Memories: Día de Muertos

Sound Memories is a series of audio portraits portraying varying perspectives on how and where we remember the dead in our changing world. I spoke with Fabiola, Carmen, Danielle, Efrain, and Louise as they prepared for Día de Muertos in a Bristol cemetery.

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Sound Memories: Adela

Sound Memories is a series of audio portraits portraying varying perspectives on how and where we remember the dead in our changing world. I spoke with Adela in her office at the historic and active Arnos Vale Cemetery in the Southwest England city of Bristol.

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Sound Memories: Steve

Sound Memories is a series of audio portraits portraying varying perspectives on how and where we remember the dead in our changing world. I spoke with Steve on a crisp autumn day in the crumbling St. Mary Redcliffe cemetery in Bristol, England.

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Graves and Greenery: London's Highgate Cemetery

1830s London was overrun with dead bodies. It was such a public health crisis that Parliament encouraged the creation of seven sprawling, privately-run cemeteries. Today, Highgate Cemetery (one of the “Magnificent Seven”) showcases the monumental differences between Victorian-era memorial practices and our relationship with death today.  

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