Supply Lines
Via ports and truck-stops, fulfilment centres and ring roads, Aidan Tulloch follows the supply chain and reimagines the journey an item goes on in the age of 24/7 delivery.
In this meditative Between the Ears, poet Aidan Tulloch checks in to the depots, the fulfilment centres, the dockyards, the stockyards, and the backyards that are all responsible for the way we live now, piecing together a vivid fever dream of light, speed, noise, melancholy, and the open road.
Following the supply chain from the container port to the doorstep, he seeks out its hidden corners and all the people who make things move.
Featuring contributions from Professor Laleh Khalili, Exeter University; Julian Wong, Stella Maris East Anglian Port Chaplain; Joe Underwood, Warden Trimley Marshes; Justin Zantboer, bird ringer and logistics at Felixstowe Port; Denis, truck driver from Estonia; Angelo, Supervisor at Amazon, Tilbury; Jake Margiotta from William George Online Auctions; Paul the courier.
Words and Music by Aidan Tulloch
Studio Mixed by Donald McDonald
Producer Neil McCarthy
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