THE MIRACLE METHODS SERIES is a host for a constellation of micro 'episodes' to be broadcast during the b-side festival in Portland and Weymouth, July to September 2012. The programme comprises four recorded narratives - Distance Readers transmitted as film and text at regular intervals throughout the day. A 'distance reader' is a term used within the context of card-sharping and the act of marking cards to cheat. It is the defocusing of the eyes to spot fluid residue marks on an opponent’s distant cards. The content for each Distance Reader draws loosely on this history, and on systems for a hypnotic induction, gaming instructions, and the shipping forecast. At the centre of the film is a game, in which four winds – East, South, West, and North - are indicated as players and oracles. They are protagonists within a speculative fiction, in which the playing of the game might pre-empt the space beyond it, predicting the future as a series of present events.