Time & Again: Mike

Jack Suddaby (UK 2022)

14 min

How does it feel to come of age in some of the UK’s most disadvantaged neighbourhoods? What really drives inner city crime? What’s it like being sent to jail at a young age and released with nothing? We hear a lot about the issues of gangs, youth crime and county lines, but we hardly ever hear from the people with the best insight of all: young prison leavers themselves.

This is Mike's story - how he makes ends meet with fake money, goes inside and then learns to make coffee.

Produced by Jack Suddaby (Beautiful Strangers)

All men in this series have been supported by award-winning rehabilitation charity Switchback.

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We are all Palestinian

Soveks Lo (UK 2024)

18 min,

A ceasefire protest event and vigil in Enfield, North London last December, local people get togther in peace to end ceasefire in Palestine.

Producer - Soveks Lo
Maroon Community Media

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All My Friends Are Turning Into Stars

Amber Devereux (UK 2023)

9 min

Originally commissioned for BBC Radio 4's Short Cuts, All My Friends Are Turning Into Stars is an exploration of chrononormativity, the idea that we all follow the same timeline, and what it means to live in opposition to it. It is a journey through space and time by way of Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, the existential angst of turning 30, an astronomer in Chile, and a slightly unnerving 1950s public information film about how to be a person.

Produced by Amber Devereux
Featuring Dr Matthew Temple, Research Fellow, Universidad Diego Portales, additional voices by Lou Sutcliffe and Alessa Catterall, featuring quotes from De Profundus by Oscar Wilde, Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and In A Queer Time And Place by Jack Halberstam.

With thanks to Axel Kacoutie

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This is Chicago: The Secret

Stephen Pate and Ashlie Stevens (US 2023)

35 min

In Near North, a hospital visit reveals a secret second family nearby. Six miles as the crow flies.

This series of short audio portraits from Chicago draws from the long lineage of oral history recording in the city, perhaps inspired by the likes of Studs Terkel and the assumption that everyone has a story if you just ask.

Created and produced by Supraphonic Studios' Stephen Pate and Ashlie Stevens

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XMTR Radio Hour Ep27: Earlid - Hubris and Humility with Joan Schuman

Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2024)

60 min / Episode 27 of 27

This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour is dedicated to  Earlid a gallery of evolving exhibits of sound art. US based Earlid founder and curator and seasoned radio practitioner Joan Schuman talks through a selection of five audio works that come under the theme Hubris and Humility. Works featured are by Bassel, Meira Asher, Evangeline Riddiford Graham and Joan Schuman.

Works featured: 

1. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it  
Myra Al-Rahim aka Bassel, 2019
https://www.earlid.org/posts/cycles-of-atrocity/

2. Cicatrix
 Joan Schuman, 2008
https://www.joanschuman.com/hyperacousia/posts/cicatrix

3. Still Sleeping
Meira Asher, 2016
https://www.earlid.org/posts/meira-asher-still-sleeping

4. Dog Woman: An Interview
Evangeline Riddiford Graham, 2020
https://www.earlid.org/posts/dog-woman

5. The Hitman
Joan Schuman 2021
https://www.joanschuman.com/hyperacousia/posts/how-you-treat-them-is-what-you-are

Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio

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Keys to an Unlocked Door

Audio Flux - Megan Tan (US 2023)

3 min

Audio Flux is an open collaboration, fueled by short audio works that respond to a set of rules established with a different creative partner each time.

The inaugural circuit is partnered with writer and artist Wendy MacNaughton (New York Times, How to Say Goodbye, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat).

Six producers were invited to create three-minute “Fluxworks,” that:
Include some manifestation of the theme: letting go
Include previously unshared personal archival tape
Take inspiration from one of three illustrations by Wendy (keys, gas station, person reading)

Megan Tan merges two stories - one person is looking for the keys to life and another has the keys to life.

Production - Megan Tan

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This I is Made of Paper

The Paris Review (US 2023)

21 min

Pulitzer Prize winner Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that "women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica Laser. Olds also reads three of her poems: “Sisters of Sexual Treasure” (Issue No. 74, Fall–Winter 1978), “True Love,” and “The Easel.”

Production and Sound Design - John DeLore
The Paris Review

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XMTR Radio Hour Ep26 : Steve Urquhart's Audio World

Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2023)

63 min / Episode 26 of 26

This Transmitter Radio Hour is a selection of audio works chosen by award winning Glasgow based radio producer and sound artist Steve Urquhart. He joins Lucia to discuss why these works inspire, make him laugh and more importantly break the rules and conventions of radio making. Steve has worked for local radio in Cumbria, National Prison Radio and made many many documentaries and shorts for BBC Radio. 

Works featured: 

1. LEAVING A MARK
Produced by Emily Hsaio for Transom Story Workshop, 2013
https://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/feature/leaving-a-mark

2. THE HOT DOGS
BBC Radio Cumbria, circa 1999/2000. Presenter: Alan Smith. Producer: Steve Urquhart 

3. RABBLE ROUSERS (extract)
Produced by Sarah Boothroyd, 2012
https://soundcloud.com/sarah-boothroyd/boothroyd-rabble-rousers

4. PRISON WALK (unedited)
Recorded by Chris Impey inside HMP Brixton, London, 2011

5. LYN AND MARY (extract)
The Listening Project, BBC, 2013
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p6rz3

6. THE FURNITURE SUPPER CLUB
Produced by Clara Lou, 2017
https://www.claralou.net/work/the-furniture-supper-club

7.  BUMP (from ‘Time Constraints AKA the 32Megabyte Mixtape’)
Produced by Alan Bryden, 2017
https://soundcloud.com/listentosteve/alan-bryden-bump-from-time-constraints
https://linktr.ee/alan_bryden

Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio

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Listening Not Knowing

Hannah Kemp-Welch (UK 2023)

miaaw.net · Listening Not Knowing

23 min,

Part of a series about listening in participatory art practice.

Albert Potrony’s website describes him as “an artist with a participatory practice examining ideas of identity, community and language. Potrony is interested in generating social spaces through his projects, and participation from diverse groups and individuals is a key element of his work.” In this conversation with Hannah Kemp-Welsh he introduces his participatory arts practice, describing a recent project with young fathers in Gateshead and former members of an anti-sexist men’s group. Albert and Hannah talk about collaborative practice in detail, and the role of listening within this.

Produced by Hannah Kemp-Welch

Made for Miaaw.net a platform dedicated to conversations about community, creativity, cultural democracy and the commons 


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Childcare Voices: Stay and Play

Eva Freeman / On The Record (UK 2023)

26 min, Episode 1 of 4

People on the frontline of the childcare crisis share their stories and investigate the historical roots of the problems they face. As they look into the past, will they find solutions to the problems of today? Eva, a single mum, artist and designer talks about stay and plays.

Stay and Plays are often volunteer-run groups, found in church halls. They are places people looking after very young babies and children can go, to play with others, have a cup of tea and a chat, and maybe even make friends. An experienced play facilitator herself, Eva first discovered the value of stay and plays when she was a new parent. They were, she says, life saving and gave her a community that has lasted. If they are so vital, why then does no one talk about them?

Produced by Eva Freeman
Sound design by Hannah Kemp Welch

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