TL Scotland 1. PLAY

2025-01-20

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“Imagine the feeling of pressing play on a cassette tape that’s just arrived from some 5,000 miles away…” What is a 'Tape Letter'? Why did people exchange news and greetings with each other on cassette, and how did they do it? Our series starts with an overview of the Tape Letters Scotland project, and a flavour of the anticipation and excitement of sending and receiving long distance cassette recordings. “For us it was a novelty, sort of like a joke. Whereas Mum and Dad, they were more emotional…”

“Imagine the feeling of pressing play on a cassette tape that’s just arrived from some 5,000 miles away…”

What is a 'Tape Letter'? Why did people exchange news and greetings with each other on cassette, and how did they do it?

Our series starts with an overview of the Tape Letters Scotland project, and a flavour of the anticipation and excitement of sending and receiving long distance cassette recordings.

“For us it was a novelty, sort of like a joke. Whereas Mum and Dad, they were more emotional…”

Episode credits

Contributors: Assia Ali, Mohammed Farooq, Nassir Ellahi, Izaz Ur Rahman, Khadijah Khurram, Mirza Muhammad Saeed, Parveen Sajid, Nadira Saddiq, Faria Khan, Saima Begum, Nasreen Ali, Akeel Ahmad, Shavana Abdul-Jabbar, Seriya Iqbal, Aqsa Mohammed, Kausar Arshad

Cassette tape donors: Mohammed Ishaq, Sameena Kauser Younus, Shavana Abdul-Jabbar, Khadijah Khurram, Rehana Ahmad

Project director: Wajid Yaseen

Podcast presenter: Tabassum Niamat

Podcast production & sound design: Steve Urquhart

Tape Letters Scotland is a Modus Arts project, made possible by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

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