This monologue concerns the family grave of Paolo Radmilovic (1886-1968) in Cathays Cemetery, Cardiff. Born in Cardiff with a Croatian background, Radmilovic is one of Wales’s greatest sportsmen winning 4 Olympic gold medals in swimming and water polo between 1908 and 1920. Although Radmilovic is buried in Weston-Super-Mare, the rest of the Radmilovics are in a family vault in Cathays Cemetery. This monologue was recorded in 2015 using binaural technology in the recently restored Mortuary Chapels in Cathays Cemetery.

This recording is part of the Graveyard Voices project which was a part of the 2015 Being Human Festival. Being Human is the UK’s only national festival of the humanities, led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London in partnership with the Arts & Humanities Research Council, the British Academy and the Wellcome Trust. The Graveyard Voices project at the University of South Wales (led by Prof Richard Hand with staff and students in drama and music) won a grant from the AHRC to take part in the Festival.

PERFORMER: George Soave (georgesoave@hotmail.co.uk) MUSIC COMPOSER/PERFORMER: Robert Smith of Wonderbrass