Paul Elliman presented ‘Voices Falling Through the Air’, a largely audio lecture continuing an interest in voice, technology, language and the built environment. The lecture traced a pre-history of the electronically transmitted voice through the whispering gallery effect and features of the physical world, from air to architecture, which have played a part in the distribution and displacement of the spoken work. In addition to serving as the title of the lecture Voices Falling Through the Air is a podcast radio programme on the theme of the whispering gallery narrated by Emma Clarke, voice of the London Underground, that was specially commissioned for Forms of Inquiry.