Welsh singer-songwriter and storyteller, Gwilym Morus-Baird and director, Bethan Dear, have extended four commissioned tales from exciting Welsh writers – Kate Hamer (shortlisted for The Costa First Novel Prize for The Girl in the Red Coat), João Morais (Described as “a great slice of comic Cardiff urban realism written by a Welsh Irvine Welsh’ – Independent on Sunday); Bethan Dear and Mary-Ann Constantine. Mary-Ann Constantine’s He Lives Upstairs is recorded partly in Welsh – with new music to create four distinct and richly textured sound worlds, imagining Wales after Climate Crisis.

We’ve produced a Special Edition Box Set (£15 + booking fee) which we’ll post out to you at home – containing a set of exclusively designed postcards, download code for 4 x 20 minute recordings of the tales with original music, plus an invitation to a live online Q&A event on Sat 13 March.

The recordings are in English.

The four tales transport listeners into four different futures, where climate crisis, inequality, mass extinction, identity politics, genetics and artificial intelligence have all left their mark on humanity. Gwilym Morus-Baird has created four unique soundscapes for each tale, with music spanning the traditional to the digital and by turns soulful, moving, powerful, playful and life-affirming.

Transcriptions for the four recordings will be available to all box set buyers and the Q&A will have a live captioner.

The recordings have been made in consultation with charities working with visually impaired audiences and audio described material will be available in advance and to bookers.