Well now, hold on… is a 24 hour live online radio broadcast over Summer Solstice in June 2020, programmed and produced collaboratively by artists Freya Dooley and Sam Hasler.

Using the first 24 words (one word for every hour) of Frank O’Hara’s ‘Five Poems’, as our lengthy and meandering title, we compiled a selection of soundscapes, stories, broadcasts, music, readings and conversations to mark the longest day of the year. Each line from the poem acted as a loose theme for each segment, connecting an eclectic mix of sounds and voices.

The broadcast featured new and previously unheard works by Ashley Holmes, Jill McKnight, Rhiannon Lowe, Malachy Harvey, Nicola Singh, Fern Thomas, Tom Cardew and Lauren Clifford-Keane. Some of these pieces are below.

We also played soundworks, mixes and readings contributed by artists Marie Malarie, Joseph Bond, Phoebe Davies, Cinzia Mutigli, Jon Ruddick, Synaptic Island, Antonia Dewhurst, Nia Metcalfe, Karl Price, Ben Ewart- Dean, Jess Akerman, Becca Thomas + Clare Charles, AJ Stockwell and Johana Hartwig and conversations between Nasima Begum and Ogechi Dimeke about the Aurora Collective at Trinity Centre Cardiff, and Ishah Speers and Carol Ivory about Mackintosh Community Gardens… We also shared a selection of 24 word poems contributed from an open call and played recordings of readings by Zadie Smith, Ursula K Leguin, Frank O’Hara, Audre Lourde, Anne Sexton, Maya Angelou, John Ashbery, Gertrude Stein, Anais Nin, Lisa Robertson and some other found material we liked the sound of.

This was a one-off, unarchived broadcast, but more information about the work and a document of the schedule can be found here.