Tape Letters

503 posts

Tape Letters banner
Tape Letters

Tape Letters

@TapeLetters

Shining light on the use of cassette tapes as an unorthodox mode of long-distance communication by British-Pakistanis and their families abroad between 1960-80.

United Kingdom Katılım Eylül 2016
465 Takip Edilen588 Takipçiler
Tape Letters retweetledi
Hyphen
Hyphen@onlinehyphen·
'It felt like they were right here talking in front of me.' With intimate portraits by Miriam Ali, plus an @EdinCulture show, @TapeLetters explores how the UK Pakistani community used audio cassettes to stay connected across continents, pre-internet. hyphenonline.com/2025/02/03/tap…
English
0
4
3
229
Tape Letters retweetledi
Inkslingers Media 🇦🇺🇲🇲🇬🇧
Blimey. After 4 years of working with the @TapeLetters team, it feels like we've hit a defining moment winning Best Arts + Culture podcast at the Independent Podcast Awards last week. 🙏 @IndPodAwards for having the gumption to create a celebration of all things indie.
Inkslingers Media 🇦🇺🇲🇲🇬🇧 tweet media
English
1
1
2
65
Tape Letters retweetledi
🦋 @greatergovanhill.com on BlueSky 🦋
کس طرح پرانی کیسٹس کی ایک بڑی تعداد پاکستانی تارکین وطن کی تاریخ اور زبانوں کی جانکاری کا ذریعہ بن گئی۔ ٹیپ لیٹرز پروجیکٹ کو بہت جلد گلاسگو،ایڈنبرا اور ڈنڈی میں ہونے والی نمائش میں پیش کیا جائے گاجس میں مقامی باسیوں کی کہانیاں دکھائیجائیں گی۔ greatergovanhill.com/latest/tape-le…
اردو
1
1
1
163
Tape Letters
Tape Letters@TapeLetters·
Episode 14: Behind the Project: Imran Arif - In a Suitcase. Arif is a Social Scientist and was a community engagement officer for the Tape Letters oral history project. He carried out multiple interviews for the archive with the elders of the community in multiple languages.
English
1
1
6
230
Tape Letters
Tape Letters@TapeLetters·
@WajidLondon reflects on the significance of these tapes in preserving family connections and memories across generations. Full episodes in the series available wherever you get your podcasts or visit: tapeletters.com/podcast/
English
0
0
2
35
Tape Letters
Tape Letters@TapeLetters·
Episode 13 explores the cultural and emotional impact of the decline in cassette tape usage for communication between British-Pakistani families, highlighting concerns over the loss of native language and cultural heritage among younger generations.
English
1
0
2
43
Tape Letters
Tape Letters@TapeLetters·
Syma Tariq is a Sound Artist & Journalist focusing on history and politics. Her PhD was entitled “Partitioned listening: sonic methodology and the archive after 1947” and is part of the Tape Letters research team.
English
1
0
3
37
Tape Letters
Tape Letters@TapeLetters·
Episode 12: Behind the Project: Syma Tariq - A Particular Archive. In this episode she describes the Tape Letters archive as a community resource, produced in collaboration with its subject. #pakistanicommunity #tapeletterspodcast
English
1
0
3
72
Tape Letters
Tape Letters@TapeLetters·
She adopted a poetry as a word-for-word translation approach, and the work is directly informed by the messages and languages on the cassettes, with the aim of reifying speech into ink.
English
1
0
2
26
Tape Letters
Tape Letters@TapeLetters·
Episode 11: Behind the Project - Suna Afshan. The poet Suna Afshan was commissioned by Modus Arts to produce a body of text in response to five cassettes selected from the Tape Letters archive held at the Bishopsgate Institute library.
English
1
0
3
83
Tape Letters
Tape Letters@TapeLetters·
Episode 10: Spoken and Unwritten. “There were letters too” – hear about the struggles of letter writing for those who could not read or write in Urdu. Listen to the origins, characteristics, and generational evolution of Pothwari, an oral-only language with no written form.
English
1
1
2
100