A Day in the Life of Honey the Dog

immersive audio following the adventures of a scottish labrador

Client: BBC Radio 3 / BBC Sounds

Brief: A Slow Radio episode capturing the sounds and experiences an elderly dog encounters during the course of her day

Tandem process: Recorded a series of episodes in Honey’s day. Edited and mixed the audio to create an absorbing, often word-less sound picture.

Project

Slow Radio allows the world to be heard, close up. For this episode of the BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds series Tandem proposed listening through the ears of Honey, a 15 year old fox-red Labrador as she goes about her daily routine, from dawn to dusk.

From waking and saying hello to her canine and human friends on a walk to the park and around an Edinburgh allotment, to staring into a crackling fire, we captured the shifting sounds in Honey’s life, using a combination of microphone placement techniques. 

After recording the audio over several days, it was creatively edited and mixed to be especially effective when heard through headphones. 

The programme received a huge amount of attention around the broadcast, with Honey, her owner and Tandem’s producer appearing in numerous national press features and radio interviews.