As a disembodied 'companion to living', the sound of analogue radio weaves itself through many aspects of daily life, slipping in and out of our attention. Radio broadcasts have the ability to occupy indeterminate space between public and private and to mediate between individual and community. Radio presents a paradox. It creates a false sense of togetherness within a reality of cosseted isolation. At the same time the medium has the potential to overcome insularity by connecting up individual experience and raising levels of political awareness. Radio creates dreams. The dreams can be myth or reality, potential or wasted potential, ennui or action.

'Wish You Were Here' was a temporary radio station that broadcast during the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art 2002. It presented a range of aural explorations of nearness and remoteness from contemporary artists, writers, cultural theorists, local communities and people whose professions concerned 'near' and 'far'. In November 2002 the station transmitted four programmes during which a host of contributors investigated ways radio sound could engage and disengage people. This audio CD publication is a record of the four broadcasts which concerned the following themes:

3.11.02. 9-12pm: Is There Anybody Out There?
To transmit ones thoughts and ideas over the airwaves suggests a need to reach out to others in the hope that someone, somewhere will be listening. Imagine the solitary radio amateur, broadcasting from his suburban garden shed, to someone on the other side of the world, in an attempt to universalise his individual experiences. Alternatively think of the long distance lorry driver, whose continual transient relationship with the landscapes around him, leads him to

17.11.02. 9-12pm: You're Not From Round Here, Are You?
Radio is a portal through which to locate the presence of other people. The sound of voices emitting from ones own radio is the link between oneself and a network of anonymous fellow users. Cruise the dial to encounter any number of virtual communities not bound by proximity but by time, through a simultaneous listening experience. Imagine the thousands of people turning on the radio at exactly the same time each week to catch a late night indie session or the traveller tuning into the local station in the hope of finding out some information about the unfamiliar territory in which she has just arrived. The listener can question whether they are inside a community, or forever the outsider, illicitly listening in. A community may be a safe haven or an oppressive force.

24.11.02. 9-12pm: The Real Thing?
Unrestricted by the visual, radio has the ability to imagine a series of events not possible in real life. It has the potential to discard the differences between the real and the fictional leaving the listener unclear as to whether the events unfolding in the radio space are based on truth or fiction. Radio has also provided a tool through which to abstract language and create a covert space for communication. These ciphers depend upon the fact that what one person says is not necessarily what another will hear. Information can be obviously coded, as in wartime transmission, or contain words that only sectors of society identify with, as a means of identification or protest. Transmissions can be full of information or contain empty words. Like the 'Shipping Forecast' they can pass the un-initiated listener by un-noticed but to the right ears demand immediate action.

Contributors
Alderwood Resource Centre, Autonomy Group Number 7, Breda Beban, Rikke Benborg, Sandra Bridie, Andrew Calcutt, Brian Dawn Chalkley, COCOSOL1DC1TI, Dianne Cole & William Larsen, Clémentine Deliss, Nick Ferguson, Bill Furlong and Audioarts, Ella Gibbs, Michelle Gibson (coach), Felicity Greenland, Kate Grieve, David Hackett, Henshaw's Society for the Blind, Angela Heslop, Richard Holt, Kelly Large, Richard Layzell, Nicky Lewis, Andrea Lowe & Liz Robey, Paul Frank Lewthwaite, Rémy Markowitsch, McCormack & Gent, Ewan McDougal, James Porter, Rebecca Reid, Philip Reilly, Paul Rooney, Becky Shaw, George Shaw, Sam Sherbourne, Naoko Takahashi, Toc-H, Salomé Voegelin, Stephen Williams, Zatorski & Zatorski and archive material from Jay Allison, Åke Hodell, Joan Jonas, Richard Prince and Bob Gober.

'Wish You Were Here' Partners
'Wish You Were Here' was a project organised by artist, Kelly Large in collaboration with STATIC, Liverpool. The project was invited to broadcast as part of The Independent sector within The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, from September to November 2002.

Kelly Large
Kelly Large is an artist who has organised and participated in a number of art projects that explore individual and group relationships to location. She has presented her work in venues including The Cornerhouse Manchester, STATIC and Bluecoat Liverpool, Waygood Gallery Newcastle, Talk Artists Initiative Australia and The Instituto de Jovellanos Spain.

Static
STATIC is an art project and space in Liverpool, led by architect, Paul Sullivan and artist, Becky Shaw. The project aims to increase the flow of ideas relating to art and culture in the city and beyond. Gallery events are integral to a programme including multi-disciplinary discussions, an online pamphlet and a number of offsite projects.

The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art
The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art is a visual arts event that brings artists from all over the world to exhibit in galleries and non-art venues throughout Liverpool. The Biennial consists of many elements including an 'Independent sector', an 'International Show', 'New Contemporaries' and the 'John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize'. This is the second Biennial to take place in Liverpool.

Liverpool Community College Powerhouse
The Powerhouse Media Centre provides a range of information technology, digital media and design software training for local communities in Liverpool. Courses include multi-media, digital video production, web design, radio production, broadcast journalism and desktop publishing and are all offered in the Media Centre's modern and well-equipped digital environment.

Ariel Trust
Ariel Trust provides radio production training courses and a variety of support for people and groups to become involved in radio broadcasting in North West England.

Wish You Were Here: wishyouwerehereradio@hotmail.com
Kelly Large: kelar80@hotmail.com
STATIC: mail@static-ops.org
The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art: info@biennnial.org.uk
Liverpool Community College Powerhouse: 0151 288 8105/8165
Ariel Trust: www.arieltrust.com

Wish You Were Here would like to thank:
Paul and Ray, Mark Ramsden, Chris Bird, Yasmin Chandra-Singh, Dave Miller, Sam Harrie, Kevin Logan, Alan Scroggie, Clémentine Deliss, Salomé Voegelin, Collette McKenna and everyone who has contributed to and inspired this radio
project.

03.11.02 Broadcast 1 87.9FM Is There Anybody Out There?

Hello and Good Evening from 'Wish You Were Here'. My name is Mark and I will be hosting each 'Wish You Were Here' broadcast. The station is a temporary restricted service radio station which is broadcasting to Liverpool throughout November on 87.9FM. At this time, (9pm - midnight), every Sunday in November, 'Wish You Were Here' will be broadcasting works from artists, writers, social theorists and local people which explore ideas and experiences of the near and the remote using the voice and other sound. Some of the audio work has been commissioned from artists and writers especially for 'Wish You Were Here' and you will be the first to hear it. Other audio works, have been selected from sound archives spanning the last 50 years. We also have interviews with people whose daily lives give them a unique perspective on nearness and distance and requests from local communities.

Tonight's broadcast is called 'Is There Anybody Out There?' And as its' title suggests the programme focuses on that universal need that we all experience at some point or another, to reach out and communicate with someone or something else. This evening's contributors are transmitting their ideas over the airwaves in the hope that you, that person at the other end of the radio, is listening in. And behind the mic, in the radio studio, all tonight's broadcasters are free to express ideas and create relationships with you that might not be possible face to face…So now that we know you are here, sit back and relax and listen to what we have to tell you…'

CD1
1. 'Wish You Were Here' call sign 00:19
2. Continuity 02:07
3. 'International Broadcast' Paul Frank Lewthwaite 17:20
4. 'Tinnitus' Richard Holt 09:14
5. 'Orpheic Revelations' Åke Hodell 08:12
(taken from Åke Hodell - Verbal Brainwash and Other Works. Fylkingen
Records, Sweden, 2002)
6. Continuity 01:07
7. 'Go On My Son! Zatorski & Zatorski 06:04
8. Continuity 01:07
9. 'A Little Bit of Not Very Much - Nick' Kate Grieve 16:27
10. Continuity 00:45

11. 'Disgrace' Clémentine Deliss
8. Continuity 01:07
9. 'A Little Bit of Not Very Much - Nick' Kate Grieve 16:27
10. Continuity 00:45
11. 'Disgrace' Clémentine Deliss
(from Coetzee, J, M and taken from Metronome No.7 - Magnetic Speech
audio CD, Denmark, 2000)

CD2
1. 'Do You Want to Dance with Me?' Salomé Voegelin 15:11
2. Continuity 00:16
3. 'The Tide is High' Atomic Kitten - requested by Melissa Hughes 03:52
4. 'Summer Hits' David Hackett 00:12
5. Continuity 00:05
6. Continuity 00:34
7. Excerpt from 'Bibliotherapy Meets Robinson Crusoe' Rémy Markowitsch 09:21
8. 'Scale1a' COCOSOL1DC1T1 (Battery Operated) 03:03
9. 'Scale2a' COCOSOL1DC1T1 (Battery Operated) 03:07
10. 'Scale3a' COCOSOL1DC1T1 (Battery Operated) 03:02
(all COCOSOL1DC1T1 tracks taken from Scalene audio CD, Paris, 2002)
11. '3 Tales of Near and Far' Steve Williams 11:05
12. Continuity 00:50
13. Spiritualist, Ann Jones interviewed by Kelly Large 14.28
14. Continuity 00:25
15. 'I Watch the Sun Rise' Father Francis - requested by Norma Buckley 06:53

CD3
1. 'The Radio Ham' starring Tony Hancock 27:37
2. Continuity 00:16
3. 'The In Sound from Far Out' Autonomy Group Number 7 19:26
4. 'Atomic Clock' David Hackett 00:14
5. Continuity 00:06
6. Continuity 00:16
7. Radio coaching with professional personal coach, Michelle Gibson 10:47
8. 'From Beyond Here' James Porter 11:26
9. Continuity 01:15
10. 'Before The Lord's Prayer' Felicity Greenland 00:56
11. 'After The Lord's Prayer' Felicity Greenland 00:44

10.11.02 Broadcast 2 87.9FM Location,Location!

'This is our second broadcast so welcome to new listeners and hello again to those of you who listened last week too…Tonight's broadcast is called 'Location, Location!' and the programme will explore radio's ability to always be in at least two places at once, without physically existing in either. The work you are about to hear will attempt to transport you to other places - these might be familiar places or they might be flights of fancy. Either way, 'Wish You Were Here' aims to offer you, over the next three hours, the potential to live a number of realities as you potter around your room, or drive home or do whatever you do on a Sunday evening to avoid thinking about where you will be on Monday morning. So, this evening, our contributors invite you to join them, in your minds eye, on a journey which ...'

CD1
1. 'Wish You Were Here' call sign 00:11
2. Continuity 02:03
3. 'Simon's Mother' Richard Layzell 13:48
4. 'Rupert's Profile' Richard Layzell 14:40
5. 'New York, New York!' Frank Sinatra - requested by Vincent McTege 05.17
6. Continuity 00:45
7. 'Cargo - Pancho Villas' Joe and Philip Reilly 06:17
8. Continuity 00:15
9. 'Notes for a Film' from Burch, N and Sekula, A, 'Notes for a Film'. October, 15.33
Spring 2002. Read by Becky Shaw live on air.
10. 'Cargo - Macedonia MV' Joe and Philip Reilly 06:20
11. 'Journey' Naoko Takahashi 02.13
12. 'I Dream of You' Perry Como - requested by Bob Burns and dedicated 04:26
to his wife, Margaret.

CD2
1. 'A Little Bit of Not Very Much - Carsten' Kate Grieve 23:41
2. Continuity followed by 'Still-life In My Dad's Kitchen' Sam Sherborne 11:08

3. Continuity 00:21
4. Excerpts from 'Species of Spaces' from Perec, G, (1997) 'Species 00:59
of Spaces'. Penguin, England. Read by Kelly Large
5. Continuity 00:23
6. 'Oblongs in Square Spaces' Salomé Voegelin
7. 'Soaring' Mark Ramsden 08:06
8. 'Cargo - Hiroshima' Joe and Philip Reilly 03:29
9. Continuity 00:06

CD3
1. 'Hotel California' The Eagles - requested by Steven Carey 07:01
2. Continuity 00:16
3. Excerpts from 'The Delicious History of the Holiday' from Inglis, F, 11:11
(2000) 'The Delicious History of the Holiday'. Routledge, New York.
Read by Becky Shaw live on air
4. Continuity 00:29
5. Excerpt from 'Bibliotherapy Meets Robinson Crusoe' Rémy Markowitsch 08:01
6. 'Scale1b' COCOSOL1DC1T1 (Private Benjamin) 02:57
7. 'Scale2b' COCOSOL1DC1T1 (Private Benjamin) 03:01
8. 'Scale3b' COCOSOL1DC1T1 (Private Benjamin) 03:02
(all COCOSOL1DC1T1 tracks taken from Scalene audio CD, Paris, 2002)
9. 'The Anchor Stone' Joan Jonas (taken from Tellus - The Audio Cassette 02:27
Magazine, Issue 21 - Audio by Visual Artists, New York, 1988)
10. 'Cargo - 25 Days Becomes Four Months' Joe and Philip Reilly 04:28
11. Continuity 01:46
12. 'The In Sound from Far Out' Autonomy Group Number 7 15:28
13. Continuity 00:06
14. Radio coaching with professional personal coach, Michelle Gibson 10.05
15. Continuity 00:22
16. 'Cargo - Igarka' Joe and Philip Reilly 07:42
17. Continuity 00:06

17.11.02 Broadcast 3 87.9FM You're Not From Round Here, Are You?

'Welcome to our third and penultimate broadcast…This evening I hope to engage you with a range of programmes that explore ideas to do with 'You're Not From Round Here, Are You?' This broadcast links you and me together with a whole, invisible community of other listeners. Close your eyes a minute and imagine this possibility - somebody tuning in, in a high rise on Sefton Park or switching on while driving down Kensington High Street, or surfing the dial in a hotel room on the Docks… all these people, scattered around this city, listening separately but together, right here and right now. Tonight, in 'You're Not From Round Here, Are You?' I will be playing you audio work that offers different perspectives on what 'belonging' or 'not belonging' might mean to different people. And, with your network of anonymous, fellow 'Wish You Were Here' listeners, this evening, I ask you to follow a story about …'

CD1
1. 'Wish You Were Here' call sign 00:11
2. Continuity 02:08
3. 'Emergency Eye Wash or Responses to an Email Circular 'Tell Us about 06:42
Your Enemy'' Nick Ferguson
4. Continuity 00:25
5. 'A Little Bit of Not Very Much - Jan' Kate Grieve 22:08
6. 'The Stolen Child' The Waterboys - requested by Linda Hostie 08:08
7. Continuity 00:15
8. 'The Neighbourhood Freaks' Jay Allison (taken from Tellus - The Audio 04:53
Cassette Magazine, Issue 21 - The Sound of Radio, New York, 1985)
9. Continuity 00:19
10. Angela Heslop from Radio Merseyside 'Artwaves' programme 10:05
interviewed by Kelly Large
11. 'Small Talk' Dianne Cole and William Larsen 03:00
12. Excerpt from 'Bibliotherapy Meets Robinson Crusoe' Rémy Markowitsch 05:36
13. Continuity 00:24
14. 'Tonight You're Mine' The Cherelles - requested by Rob 03:00
15. Excerpts from 'Imagine all the People: Constructing Community Culturally' 04:13
from Mercer, K (1995) 'Imagined Communities' National Touring
Exhibitions, London. Read by Kelly Large
16. Continuity 01:17

CD2
1. 'Dawn in Wonderland' Brian Dawn Chalkley 12:17
2. 'Scale1c' COCOSOL1DC1T1 (Identification) 02:59
3. 'Scale2c' COCOSOL1DC1T1 (Identification) 03:00
4. 'Scale3c' COCOSOL1DC1T1 (Identification) 03:00
(all COCOSOL1DC1T1 tracks taken from Scalene audio CD, Paris, 2002)
5. Continuity 00:18
6. 'The Lonely Crowd' Andrew Calcutt 10:11
7. Continuity 00:31
8. 'Fish Island - The Making of a Radio Show' Ella Gibbs 00:09
9. 'Fish Island - The Making of a Radio Show' 01:27
10. 'Fish Island - The Making of a Radio Show - Intro' 02:13
11. 'Fish Island - The Making of a Radio Show - Came Here in the '60's' 03:31
12. 'Fish Island - The Making of a Radio Show - Work' 00:30
13. 'Fish Island - The Making of a Radio Show - Machines' 01:34
14. 'Fish Island - The Making of a Radio Show - Warehouse' 04:57
15. 'Fish Island - The Making of a Radio Show - Social' 01:53
16. 'Fish Island - The Making of a Radio Show - Navigate by the Stars' 01:34
17. 'Fish Island - The Making of a Radio Show - Ben's Day' 01:37
18. 'Fish Island - The Making of a Radio Show - Song: Canals and Bridges' 00:47
19. 'The In Sound From Far Out' Autonomy Group Number 7 14:03
20. Continuity 00:18

CD3
1. Students from a British language school interviewed by 25:21
Becky Shaw
2. Continuity 00:10
3. Radio coaching with professional personal coach, Michelle Gibson 11:19
4. Continuity 00:18
5. 'From the Heart' Another Level requested by Wendy 05:20
6. Excerpts from 'The Lure of the Local' taken from Lippard, L, R 02:10
(1997) 'The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentred
Society'. The New Press, New York. Read by Kelly Large
7. Continuity 00:15
8. 'Dinner Party' Breda Beban 28:58
9. Continuity 00:05

24.11.02 Broadcast 4 87.9FM The Real Thing?

'Well this is our very last broadcast so hello again to all you listeners who have followed the complete 'Wish You Were Here' experience and welcome to new listeners…The work I have selected for our last broadcast explores the theme 'The Real Thing?' In the invisible space of radio I will be playing you audio work that asks you to suspend your disbelief and slip the boundaries between the real and the fantastic. Tonight we offer you a covert space in which to abstract language and code communication. So, be aware, that this evening, you might hear things you don't want to, or that other people don't want you to. And at all times keep in mind that what you are hearing might not be altogether the same as what 'Wish You Were Here' is saying. Amongst other things this evening you will hear…'

CD1
1. 'Wish You Were Here' call sign 00:11
2. Continuity 01:55
3. 'Radio Fiction - The Artist and the Writer' Sandra Bridie and Andrew Preston 15:17
4. Continuity 00:15
5. 'Structures III (Part 1)' Åke Hodell (taken from Åke Hodell - Verbal Brainwash 10:37
and Other Works, Fylkingen Records, Sweden, 2000)
6. Continuity 01:17
7. 'A Little Bit of Not Very Much - Ending' Kate Grieve 06:21
8. 'Tell Me Everything' Richard Prince and Bob Gober (taken from Tellus - 02:05
The Audio Cassette Magazine, Issue 21 - Audio by Visual Artists,
New York, 1988)
9. 'Structures III (Part 2)' Åke Hodell (taken from Åke Hodell - Verbal Brainwash 02:09
And Other Works, Fylkingen Records, Sweden, 2000)
10. Continuity 00:41
11. 'Whispers' Nicky Lewis, Andrea Lowe and Liz Robey 09:33
12. 'Empty Hearts' Alison Kraus - requested by Julie Rodderway 05:03

CD2
1. 'Cathedral' Raymond Carver (taken from Where I'm Calling From - 33:11
The Selected Stories, The Harvill Press, London, 1995).
Read by David Large
2. Continuity 00:48
3. 'Collaboration by Committee' McCormack + Gent 07:39
4. 'Structures III (Part 3)' Åke Hodell (taken from Åke Hodell - Verbal 09:03
Brainwash and Other Works, Fylkingen Records, Sweden, 2000)
5. Continuity 00:15
6. 'Scale3a (remix)' COCOSOL1DC1T1 (Battery Operated) 06:00

7. 'Scale3c (remix)' COCOSOL1DC1T1 (Private Benjamin) 06:04
8. 'Scale3b (remix)' COCOSOL1DC1T1 (Identification) 06:00
(all COCOSOL1DC1T1 tracks taken from Scalene audio CD, Paris, 2002)
9. Continuity 01:04

CD3
1. Stan McNally from The Liverpool Marine Radio and Electronics Society 19:51
interviewed by Becky Shaw
2. Continuity 00:19
3. Åke Hodell speaking about the 15 year radio ban on 'Mr Smith in Rhodesia.' 03:07
(translation for WUWH taken from Åke Hodell - Verbal Brainwash and Other
Works, Fylkingen Records, Sweden, 2000)
4. 'Mr Smith in Rhodesia' Åke Hodell (taken from Åke Hodell - Verbal Brainwash 16:05
and Other Works, Fylkingen Records, Sweden, 2000)
5. 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' Rikke Benborg (taken from Metronome No.7 - 01:43
Magnetic Speech audio CD, Denmark, 2000)
6. Continuity 00:11
7. Continuity 00:21
8. 'Structures III (Part 4)' Åke Hodell (taken from Åke Hodell - Verbal Brainwash 02:21
and Other Works, Fylkingen Records, Sweden, 2000)
9. Continuity 00:05
10. 'Liverpool Echo' Rebecca Reid 08:37
11. 'Structures III (Part 5)' Åke Hodell (taken from Åke Hodell - Verbal Brainwash 03:09
and Other Works, Fylkingen Records, Sweden, 2000)
12. 'Your Save with Us Now?' Ewan McDougall 02:33
13. Continuity 00:22
14. 'The In Sound from Far Out' Autonomy Group Number 7 16:29
15. 'The In Sound from Far Out (Bonus Track)' Autonomy Group Number 7 02:21

CD4
1. Continuity 00:15
2. Excerpt from 'Tanhauser Overture' Richard Wagner - requested by 04:55
Vincent McTege
3. Continuity 00:09
4. Radio coaching with professional personal coach, Michelle Gibson 08:00
5. 'Hold Your Hour' George Shaw 14:47
6. Continuity 00:18
7. 'Tea, Coffee and Desert' Paul Rooney (taken from The Street is Quiet Today 02:59
audio CD)
8. Continuity 00:46
9. 'A Short History of Sound' William Furlong 13:04
10. 'Generally Speaking, Part 2' Felicity Greenland 09:20
11. 'Structures III (Part 6)' Åke Hodell (taken from Åke Hodell - Verbal Brainwash 03:28
and Other Works, Fylkingen Records, Sweden, 2000)

Contributors

Autonomy Group Number 7: groupnumber7@hotmail.com
Breda Beban: breda.beban@virgin.net
Rikke Benborg: rikkebenborg@ofir.dk
Sandra Bridie: bridiesh@yahoo.com.au
Andrew Calcutt: a.calcutt@uel.ac.uk
Brian Dawn Chalkley: brian.dawn@virgin.net
COCOSOL1DC1T1: wadewalker@lycos.com
Diane Cole: dianecole@zipmail.com
Clémentine Deliss: cdeliss@talk21.com
Nick Ferguson: nickferguson77@hotmail.com
William Furlong: audioarts@aol.com
Ella Gibbs: find_ella@yahoo.co.uk
Michelle Gibson: michelle@shift.fslife.co.uk
Felicity Greenland: 07939 287 574
Kate Grieve: kate_grieve@hotmail.com
David Hackett: davehackett1@hotmail.com
Angela Heslop: angela.heslop@bbc.co.uk
Richard Holt: rcholt@ozemail.com.au
Kelly Large: kelar80@hotmail.com
Kelly Large: kelar80@hotmail.com

Contributors

Richard Layzell: richard.layzell@virgin.net
Nicky Lewis, Andrea Lowe & Liz Robey: nickynoo72@hotmail.com
Paul Frank Lewthwaite: lewth.mill@virgin.net
Remy Markowitsh: rmarkowitsch@web.de
McCormack + Gent: mccormackgent@hotmail.com
Ewan McDougall: eoiin@yahoo.co.uk
James Porter: jimbobporter@hotmail.com
Mark Ramsden: mjr60@cam.ac.uk
Rebecca Reid: tapstepballchange@hotmail.com
Philip Reilly: philip.reilly1@ntlworld.com
Paul Rooney: paul.rooney1@aol.com
Becky Shaw: bec_shaw01@hotmail.com
George Shaw: C/o Anthony Wilkinson Gallery 0208 980 2662
Sam Sherborne: hvsherborne@hotmail.com
Naoko Takahashi: naoko_takahashi@yahoo.com
Salomé Voegelin: salomevoe@yahoo.co.uk
Steve Williams: ucantwait@hotmail.com
Zatorski & Zatorski: zatorski@artserve.net