Interview with Tom Whalley on Sounds Good Right? podcast

Renu Arora joined producer, sound designer and documentary maker Tom Whalley on Sounds Good Right?, a podcast exploring the stories and inner worlds connected with sound, bringing her near-death experience into conversation with the dream world of artist Claudia Molinari - two stories that move beyond the limits of everyday perception, asking how sound can help us approach experiences that are vivid, meaningful and difficult to contain in ordinary language.

For Renu, sound is inseparable from memory and identity. She has worked for more than two decades as an actor, singer and writer, and her creative response to the accident that changed her life took shape through music, song and spoken word, with The Burgundy Book beginning not as a straightforward retelling but as an attempt to give form to the emotional and spiritual dimensions of what happened.

The podcast format creates space for attentive listening, and rather than asking whether an experience can be neatly proved or explained, it considers what the experience sounded and felt like, what meaning it carried and how it continued to reverberate through a life.

That approach resonates strongly with Renu’s work, whose near-death experience contained a life review, an overwhelming sense of love and the image of three books, including the Burgundy Book of the future she had not yet lived - and the music that followed became a bridge between the unsayable experience and the audience hearing it.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dreams-and-near-death-experiences/id1707033958?i=1000628268317