Transmissions
All-American Ruins: Sober
Blake Pfeil (US 2023)
Blake Pfeil (US 2023)
15 min
A multimedia travelogue where Blake Pfeil recounts experiences exploring abandoned spaces across the United States and reimagines them through multimodal storytelling.
The cornerstone piece of the project is abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast, an award-winning audio series which guides listeners through immersive sonic fantasies, recreating experiences exploring abandoned spaces across the United States and around the world. Along the way, the show asks critical questions about American history and culture, community, capitalism and economics, the environment, and mental health while encouraging folks to activate their imaginations as a tool for healing.
The show was recently featured as an Official Select at On Air Fest in Los Angeles, California. The finale for season two is the most personal journal yet. In the episode, which takes place at an abandoned brewery in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Blake reflects on his journey to sobriety, and how his spiritual connection to abandoned places pulled him through the darkest time in his life
Produced by Blake Pfeil
Music by Indigo Days, Lotus, Joseph Beg, Lama House, and Brett Gregory
Featuring Isabel Wilder, Nik Magill
Camlann - Ep1 Keep The Homefire Burning
Tin Can Audio (UK 2024)
Tin Can Audio & Ella Watts (UK 2024)
25 min Episode 1 of 6
One day, every apocalypse happened at once.
Follow three survivors and their dog as they try to understand what happened to the world, and build a home from the ashes.
Camlann is a post-apocalyptic fantasy series about the necessity of hope for survival. Dai, Morgan, Perry and their noble wolfhound Gelert venture out into the Welsh countryside to escape the devastation that hordes of folkloric monsters have wrought among the cities.
Not to mention the "Knights of the Round Table", a former university rugby team turned maniacal feudal lordship on the hunt for their Sir Peredur, and the witch Morgan Le Fay.
This haphazard group just want a safe haven, the means to survive, and a fire they can gather around at night and tell stories.
Written by: Ella Watts
Starring Tobias Weatherburn, Robyn Holdaway, Angharad Phillips, Nicole Miners, Paul Warren
Produced by Amber Devereux
Sound Design by Oliver Morris & Cai Gwilym Pritchard
The Right to Happiness - At Times Seemingly Pleasant and Friendly
Irna Phillips ( US 1939)
Irna Phillips (US 1939)
13 min
A bit of fun from the Old Time Radio Archive complete with ‘soap’ advertising.
"The Right to Happiness," an American Old Time Radio Soap Opera created by Irna Phillips, was broadcast across the country from its creation in 1939 until its demise in 1960. Irna Phillips creation was originally a spinoff for Guiding Light character Rose Kransky.
The show premiered on NBC's Blue Network on Oct 16, 1939. However Rose seems to have kept her ties the Five Points suburb of Chicago, and the show soon began to revolve around the loves and trials of Carolyn Allen. Carolyn was the daughter of a magazine editor.
First broadcast on NBC’s Blue Network
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Where do I Belong: Shock Waves and City of the Richter Scale
New Perspectives Theatre ( UK/IQ 2023)
New Perspectives (UK / IQ 2023)
5 min
7 min
A collection of short poems and stories from twelve writers living in Baghdad and Nottingham, offering a unique window into the lives of those in two distinct UNESCO Cities of Literature, featuring original writing from emerging and established artists, with an emphasis on under-represented voices. The 12 podcast episodes have developed through online conversations, pairing the writers to reflect and explore themes that connect their pieces to create a series of duets:
Episode 1: City on the Richter Scale
by Sadek Mohammed (poet, translator, essayist and academic; Baghdad)
A contemplation of a blood-stained city
Episode 2: Shock Waves
by Andy Barrett (writer and performer; Nottingham)
broken promises and new beginnings
Produced by New Perspectives
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Traffic Circle
Grant Harris (US 2023)
Grant Harris (US 2023)
10 min
A limo driver navigates the road, the weather, her thoughts, and the radio.
A short film for the ears playing with inner, outer voice and recognisable radio tropes, this piece invites you to lean in.
Written, Directed, and produced by Grant Harris
Edited by: Grant Harris & Joe Miles
Featuring: Shamarah Hernandez, Florence Friebe, Kate Scott & Joe Miles
Music by Dandelot
2000 Plus: Flying Saucers
Dryer/ Weenolsen (US 1950)
Dryer / Weenolsen - MBS (US 1950)
30 min
2000 Plus (aka Two Thousand Plus and 2000+) was an American old-time radio series that ran on the Mutual Broadcasting System from 1950 to 1952, in various 30-minute time slots. A Dryer Weenolsen production, it was the first adult science fiction series on radio using all new material.
The radio equivelant to a black and white saturday matine movie; dated, kitsch and a journey into another era.
Produced by : Sherman H. Dryer
Written by: Robert Weenolsen
The Crossing Guard Tapes: Tape 1 Side A
Jim Waters (US 2023)
Jim Waters (US 2023)
13 min
In a world where cities are playgrounds and playgrounds are arenas. Where arenas are battlegrounds, and battlegrounds are sectioned into streets and streets are bisected by school crosswalks and school crosswalks are the frontline in an ancient battle where crossing guards are the warriors that stand between the everyday, holding up a stop sign to the end of days... and the end of days is going way over 15 MPH/30 KPH in a school crossing zone.
When Mike Limbo gets hired as a Crossing Guard, he’s slowly dragged into an underground world he never knew existed…
You’ll never look at crossing guards (lollipop people in the UK) in the same way again.
Produced by : Jim Waters
Tramlines Route 59: School Days Past
Sharmini Kumar / Broadwave ( 2023)
Sharmini Kumar / Broadwave (AU 2023)
34 min
A woman has taken her 12 year old daughter for high school orientation at a school near Essendon train station. As they take the tram home (towards Airport West), the mother tells her daughter about her own high school days, the memories she has of catching the tram, of meeting boys at the Airport West shopping centre, and her experiences of high school.
Thiis has been written and produced to be listened to on the Melbourne Tramline and specifically Route 59, but can of course be enjoyed anywhere with a little imagination.
Written and read by Sharmini Kumar
Produced by Beth Atkinson-Quinton
A Broadwave Production
Outside Is The Sky
James Ginzburg and Patrick Eakin Young (UK 2021)
James Ginzburg and Patrick Eakin Young (UK 2021)
31 min
The jagged surfaces and iridescent veneers of electronic artist Aho Ssan’s labyrinthine debut become the material and psychological furnishings of a sonic dystopia in this chilling allegorical fable. Like all Class 8 citizens, Désiré has spent his entire life confined to cramped living quarters, with no access to the outside world. When his parents suddenly vanish from the apartment, he is forced to confront his own role in their disappearance, and begins to question everything he thought he knew about his situation.
From the award winning Soundworlds - an audio stage for diverse stories told in extraordinary ways. It’s a place for an exciting new form of audio drama that we call sonic theatre.
Written with artist/musician James Ginzburg
Directed by Patrick Eakin Young
Produced by Eleanor Turney & George Warren
The True Crime of Your Frozen Death
Ross Sutherland and Cristina Marras (UK/IT 2022)
Ross Sutherland and Cristina Marras (UK/IT 2022)
44 min
A homage to the Giallo film genre, set within the True Crime podcasting scene. What happens when an Italian podcaster becomes the protagonist of their own true-crime podcast? An absurd foray into the genre in Italian.
As Ross says in his intro, you can give it a try without being able to understand a word (if you don’t speak Italian) or you can also get the subtitled version here:
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