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What the Recording Catches
Fennimore Road in Headingley, Leeds, has a bathroom-tile shop on the ground floor and a two-room counselling practice above it, and Nell Ardery has recorded every single session that has ever been held in those two rooms.
- ~189 min (estimated)
- 41707 words
- 72 scenes
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
28 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
It is her rule and it is in the practice's own written policy: a Zoom H6 in a lidded bowl on the table, red light on, a WAV file to the Synology under the stairs, named by client code and date. Nineteen years of marriages, four hundred and twelve hours of other people's bedrooms. Then the practice partner, Nadia Okonjo, mentions in one sentence on a Tuesday that she has been seeing a man called Peter for two months, and Nell goes home to LS6 and finds her own husband in the kitchen doing the thing with his tie that he does when he is going to say something. Eight months. Forty-one minutes on a file dated 11 February. A man describing his marriage to his wife's best friend in the third person, at length, with the specific things only he would know, and the woman he is describing is upstairs in the house the recording is about. Nell's login is the practice owner login. She wrote the access
Content notice8 topics · tap to review
- A husband describing his wife in the third person, at length, to another person, on a recording
- Infidelity-adjacent: a professional relationship that is not a sexual relationship but is not nothing
- Explicit adult sexual content, written in full, on a recording and in a room
- A professional ethics disclosure and the loss of a registration
- A partnership dissolved and a twenty-two-year friendship ended
- A client's recorded privacy entering a legal disclosure schedule
- A file destroyed to prevent a disclosure, which cannot be undone
- The reader's own act of listening to a recording is the premise and is never named
Cast
- N Nell Ardery Senior partner of Ardery & Okonjo, and the viewpoint character; she records every session and wrote the access policy that lets her hear her own husband no portrait yet
- N Nadia Okonjo Founder of the practice, Peter Ardery's therapist, and the woman who has been told the private architecture of her best friend's marriage for eight months no portrait yet
- P Peter Ardery Nell's husband, a Leeds City Council planning officer, and the man on the recording describing his marriage in the third person no portrait yet
- B Bev Sowerby Nell's client of eleven years, 486 recorded hours, and the innocent whose whole marriage is in the same volume as Peter Ardery's no portrait yet
- R Rhiannon Oyelowo Counsellor, two years in post, Wednesday evenings and the Tuesday intake calls; she built the index and she is the only person in the building who says the true thing by accident no portrait yet