Fortnightly on Thursdays, 8pm. Listen here: https://starandshadow.org.uk/online-players/radio/ 

A celebration of creative projects that never got finished or never made it out into the world. What’s the value to be found in unfinished and private writing, art, and music? What stops us from finishing things off? And what might happen if the pressure to complete projects disappeared?

I’ll be asking my guests to search their bottom drawers and the abandoned corners of their laptops to rediscover secret and incomplete schemes.

My guest this week is Gillie Kleiman. She is an artist. The starting point of her work is an interest in dance and in choreography, but her art manifests in a variety of forms. 

That includes her unfinished project Grief Dances. It’s based on dances Gillie experienced while grieving. Because Grief Dances is unfinished, it doesn’t yet have a set form. 

One exciting possibility is that audiences could read descriptions of the dances whilst in a theatre auditorium, the stage left empty aside from what viewers imagine to be there.

Gillie also has fascinating things to say about what a post-work future might look like, where we work less and do other things more. And that includes recognising the value in activities like vegetable growing and dog walking.

(Watch out too for the reminder Gillie gives me not to worry about being professional on the radio, after I attempt a terrible link…)

If you’d like to find out more about Gillie’s work, you can visit her website: www.gilliekleiman.com

Presented by Em Anderson. If you have an unfinished or unpublished project you’d like to talk about, email me at unfinished.unpublished@gmail.com