Conversations with the Geraniums : Inhaling/Exhaling the Archive. 

A looking through and broadcasting out of first reactions to some of the items left by science writer Angela Croome when they died at the age of 91 in 2017. 

The first conversation took place in September 2017 with Emma Cousin (Video), David McDiarmind, Naomi Graham, Louise Ashcroft.

Yeah a bit lower down I think, yeah there yeah

It says on the back of them

It smells nice

I know the smells good in it

It’s not like the smell of old books its like

chemically

But

also kind of like matches

The smell of the red stuff on matches

The smell of the what

The red stuff on matches

You know like

Oh yeah I know what mean

D’you reckon it’s the photographs

That’s amazing

oh cool that’s good

what is that

yeah that’s good

what is that

yeah that’s good that looks a bit more like

but is it a model

photo of a plaster of paris model

but it looks like it’s the real think doesn’t it

kinda hard to tell what

shall we put

that’s really amazing

put that with something you feel like it goes with

oh this is good