Who Said That
Voices that turn up somewhere other than the mouth they came from: a radio producer whose own mother did not know her on air, a dubbing actress who marked forty-one film stars out of ten for breathing, a film whose wind arrives ninety-eight minutes late, a machine that could say eleven words, two lip-readers who no longer share a car, and an interpreter who gets ahead of the man she is translating. An issue about who is actually speaking, and who it is for.
- Published
- 10 November 2026
- Extent
- 30 pp.
- Entries
- 6
- Words
- 8,343
Contents
06 entries- 1The essayK/1.A.001My Mother Rang to Ask Who the Woman WasThe one time I spoke on the radio programme I produced for eleven years, my mother telephoned the studio to complain about the new woman. This is my attempt to tell her who it was.Hanne Løvstad7 min · 1,583 words · pp. 5–8
- 2Festival catalogue entriesK/1.A.002The Lip-Readers Disagree About Reel ThreeThree entries from this year's Middelburg catalogue, for films missing their words, their sound or their picture. One will be shown in the dark; two contributors would rather the third were not shown.Mien Sturkenboom6 min · 1,352 words · pp. 9–12
- 3ProfileK/1.A.003Forty-One Actresses and One MouthIn a kitchen in Rome there is an exercise book in which the Italian voice of forty-one foreign actresses marked each of them out of ten for breathing, and was not generous.Noor Castellane6 min · 1,391 words · pp. 13–16
- 4PortfolioK/1.A.004Evert Mossling's Seventh Machine Could Say Eleven WordsA reed-organ repairer in Gothenburg spent seventeen years building machines that talk. Seven measured plates of what survives in his granddaughter's attic, and the short list of words he decided the last one needed.Ana Ferreira-Holm3 min · 793 words · pp. 17–19
- 5CriticismK/1.A.005Ninety-Eight Minutes Without WindI bought a stopwatch because of this film and then spent years telling people its ending was a mistake. Now a restoration has removed the ending, and I want it back.Tobias Ackerley8 min · 1,732 words · pp. 20–23
- 6FictionK/1.A.006BoothA story. On the third afternoon of a fisheries meeting, the interpreter in the left-hand booth finds she has got slightly ahead of the delegate, and has to decide what he is about to say.Teodor Vasko6 min · 1,492 words · pp. 24–27
- ·Back matterCorrespondence and notices
- ·Back coverThe catalogue of objectsNumbered specimens, offered for introductions.
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