You Are Here

A podcast exploring the hidden stories, voices, and landscapes of Levenshulme’s green spaces.Each episode takes you into a different park in the area, uncovering layers of memory, imagination, and community.Expect evocative short stories inspired by place, real voices from the people who shape these spaces every day, and immersive soundscapes created using field recordings.Whether you know these parks well or are discovering them for the first time, You Are Here invites you to listen in a new way.Episodes include:Story – A newly commissioned short story inspired by the parkPortrait of the Park – Local voicesAudio Soundscape – An atmospheric journey through soundYou Are Here is produced by Levenshulme Old Library. The project was commissioned by The Space and made possible by Arts Council England.

You Are Here is a fiction podcast hosted by Levenshulme Old Library, with 17 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Levenshulme Old Library hosts You Are Here, a fiction show with 17 episodes published.

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  Episode #16

  Secret Lake Stories

  Dec 20, 202515 minS0

  <p>Secret Lake Stories is a soundwork by sound designer and composer Emily Zurowski, recorded on and around a small, enclosed body of water known locally as the Secret Lake, on the border of Levenshulme and Reddish in Greater Manchester. Largely hidden from surrounding streets and reached by footpaths through scrub and woodland, the lake sits within a patchwork of former industrial land, housing, railway edges and informal green space.</p><p>The piece is centred on the voices of people who know the lake well and spend time there: walkers, neighbours and those who return to it regularly. Their...

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  Episode #15

  5.2 - Field Notes: Knots | Form | Strut

  Apr 24, 20254 minS0

  <p>Knots | Form | Strut (Cringle Park Soundscape)</p><p>Sound design by Oscillate</p><p>A soundscape created using field recordings gathered in Cringle Park</p><p>Cringle Park presents as a traditional Victorian park - wide paths, open spaces and quiet corners where people pass, pause and play. However at its centre sits a small stone circle whose origins are unclear but whose presence is quietly magnetic.</p><p>This soundscape captures the layered sonic textures of the park: footsteps, birds and the steady hum of passing lives.</p><p>Part of You Are Here, a podcast from Levenshulme...

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  Episode #4

  2.0 - Tripe by Verity Platt

  Apr 24, 202518 minS0

  <p>Tripe</p><p>Written and performed by Verity Platt</p><p>Set in Nutsford Vale</p><p>Marta walks through Nutsford Vale, her thoughts drifting between motherhood, inheritance and the body - the weight of care and the strange rituals that shape our days.</p><p>Set in a park that was once a clay pit, then a tip, Tripe is a lyrical, layered meditation on usefulness, repetition and the uncanny that quietly lurks on the edges of ordinary life.</p><p>Verity Platt is a writer from Manchester whose work explores the intersections of place, and memory. Her...

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  Episode #8

  3.1 - A Portrait of a Park: Chapel Street Park

  Apr 24, 202518 minS0

  <p>Chapel Street Park – Portrait of the Park</p><p>Produced by Levenshulme Old Library</p><p>Sound design by Oscilloscope</p><p>Tucked behind houses and running alongside the railway, Chapel Street Park is a small, open space with a quiet kind of presence - a place of memory and movement.</p><p>In this portrait, we hear reflections from writer Hette Phillips and a local volunteer, each offering their own perspective on the park’s atmosphere, its role in everyday life, and the connections that form quietly in shared spaces.</p><p>Part of You Are Here, a podc...

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  Episode #12

  4.2 - Field Notes: Gives | Splice | Agents

  Apr 24, 20256 minS0

  <p>Gives | Splice | Agents (Highfield Country Park Soundscape)</p><p>Sound design by Oscillate</p><p>A soundscape created using field recordings gathered in Highfield Country Park</p><p>Highfield Country Park is one of Levenshulme’s largest green spaces - a mix of woodland, meadow, paths and water, where people and wildlife move together through the seasons.</p><p>This soundscape weaves together fragments of that environment: birds, trees, quiet footfall and distant conversation - creating an immersive portrait of a space that feels both natural and lived-in.</p><p>Part of You Are Here, a podcast from Levenshulme Ol...

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