Transmissions
Promenade - Meadh
Andy Gaffney (IE 2023)
Andy Gaffney (IE 2023)
14 min
Promenade is a collection of stories from around the world dealing with memory and the stories they trigger from the sound of the sea reminding you of an old romance, the smell of a perfume in Paris making you yearn for home or a bar of soap reminding you of a loved one - memories can be triggered by the oddest of things
In Paris, a perfume maker ponders what scents she would use to create the fragrance of her own life.
Produced by Andy Gaffney
Written and Performed by Meabh McCurtin
Music used in this episode: Stephen Keech - Watermark Shimmer - Grace
Ways of Knowing: Cosmic Visions - Moon Stories
The World According to Sound (US 2023)
The World According to Sound (US 2023)
13 min
The World According to Sound work with universities to translate academic research into sound. Each season has a radically different format and topic. This current series Cosmic Visions
explores the spirit of inquiry, which spans tens of thousands of years, was cultivated by civilizations around the globe, and has been shaped by ways of thinking that may seem at first “unscientific,” but which have led to great leaps in our understanding of the cosmos. Cosmic Visions is produced in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University.
Storytelling was one of the earliest ways humans tried to make sense of the heavens. The first object of major study was the moon, and that's because of an uncanny ability it has to keep time.
Produced by Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett
The Nami Podcast : Of Those In The Darkness
The Nami Project (GHAN 2020)
The Nami Project (GHAN 2020)
9 min Episode 5 of 8
The Nami Podcast is an anthology podcast of lightly dramatised stories and poetry by West African writers bridging the cultural gap between oral narration of stories and writing.
In this tale Sierra Leonian writer Victor Forna gathers elements of a world that existed long before ours, telling a tale of forgotten beings, deceit and betrayal.