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The Last Bohemians LA: Gloria Hendry
Kate Hutchinson (UK 2022)
Kate Hutchinson (UK 2022)
32min Episode 2 of 8
The Last Bohemians meets maverick and radical women in arts and culture and takes listeners on a vivid, hallucinatory trip through their extraordinary lives. From subversive musicians and style icons to game-changing artists, these are women who have lived life on the edge and who still refuse to play by the rules.
Lost and feeling adrift during the pandemic, host and creator Kate Hutchinson decamped from London to Hollywood in search of the wildest women in the City of Angels to help her get her mojo back. From Sunset Strip sexpots to Downtown artists, she meets a range of incredible women – and one artistic dynasty! – among the palm trees and bougainvillaea to glean some much-needed advice.
In this episode we meet Gloria Hendry. She made film history with Live and Let Die, becoming Bond's first Black love interest, and took on edgy roles in what were known as the blaxploitation films of the 1970s. She talks about being a trailblazer, raunchy sex scenes, what being a Playboy Bunny taught her about life and how she paved the way for Black women in film.
Her voice is infectious and she describes in her down to earth way how she navigated Black civil rights, feminism, being part of ‘Black Renaissance’ movies and how to navigate being a woman of colour in the entertainment business. Her motto ‘it doesn’t matter what you think of me, I can’t do anything about it’
Produced by Kate Hutchinson
www.thelastbohemians.co.uk
Fear Of Missing Out: Halima
Jesse Lawson (UK 2022)
Jesse Lawson / Halima Jibril (UK 2022)
30min
Fear of Missing Out gives the microphone to young people living in the UK to talk about about topics we wish we'd learnt in school. Every episode, a new presenter goes on a personal journey through the bits of British history that people aren't talking about enough.
In March 2022, a report came out about Child Q: a 15 year old black secondary school student from London, who was strip searched by the police in her own school. 22 year old Halima moved to England from Ireland when they was 14. Hearing about Child Q felt like a breaking point for her own resilience to racism in the UK. Halima looks into the history of the criminalisation of black communities in the UK, which for Halima – and Child Q – started at school.
Produced by Jesse Lawson
Co Produced and Narrated by : Halima Jibril
A Boldface Production, supported by the Audio Content Fund.
The Lido
Dennis Funk , Paula Barros (US 2022)
Dennis Funk, Paula Barros (US 2022)
36min
On a little island sandwiched between Miami Beach and mainland Florida sits an old pink apartment complex called The Lido. It’s unlike anything around it; a remnant of an old Miami. One of the tenants, Paula Barros, guides us through this colourful building and the colourful people who live there. There’s Eddie, the exhausted HOA Board President, a stickler for rules and a sucker for his cat. Evan, an aspiring travel influencer trying to work through hundreds of bucket list goals. Ragnar, an amateur taxidermist. Payami, who only calls himself that because it rhymes with Miami.
A charming place specific peice narrated and recorded by one of the residents who uses her microphone to get to know her neighbours a little better and starts to get involved in the search for a missing cat.
(The 11th is a podcast that publishes an entirely new and ambitious issue on the 11th of every month. It could be one episode, or three, or more. It’s a mystery box made up of reported series and personal journeys; fiction, musicals, deep investigative journalism and intimate conversations. Inspired by the experience of opening a magazine you love every month and not knowing what exactly you will get, but trusting that something engaging and true will be waiting for you. Each issue, a different voice. Every month, something new.)
Produced and Recorded by Dennis Funk, Kristen Torres, Paula Barros
Narrated by Paula Barros
From Pineapple Street Studios / Written in Air
Bricks: Bristoler Chronik
Cliff Andrade (UK 2021)
Cliff Andrade / Bricks (UK 2021)
45 min Episode 5 of 6
Audio Walks for armchair lsitening
Bricks Podcast is a chance to listen into the individual worlds of artists and creatives. Commissioned by Bricks, the episodes delve into the practice and storytelling of unique topics.
A walk to a place long forgotten becomes the basis for a rumination on memory, place, and the creation of personal identities. Cliff Andrade’s internalised audio adventure into the unique mental state entered into when walking.
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Written and Hosted by Cliff Andrade
Bricks Podcast
Down To A Sunless Sea: Waves
Down To A Sunless Sea: Waves (UK 2020)
Dave Pickering (UK 2020)
38 min Episode 16 of 18
This very personal podcast is about Dave Pickering and his dad and their relationship. It's also about death, old age, care, love, history, change, mental health, science, medicine, art, dementia and friendship. It brings together memoir, clips from over 10 years of recordings of his father and interviews with experts. It takes you on a journey down to a sunless sea.
episode is about movement, memory, change, time, distance, tears, connection, therapy, sadness, love, grief and everything else that can come in waves.
Dave has to come to terms with his father’s memory loss and the fact that no matter what he forgets, it can’t take away the love they have shared, that existed, and will always have existed, even when he has forgotten it; even when he is no longer alive to remember it; even when Dave’s forgotten it; even when Dave is no longer alive to remember it. It happened. And that has to be enough.
General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issues Additional content note: euthanasia/suicide
Produced by Dave Pickering
With funding from the British Podcast Awards Fund and the Wellcome Trust
Kabul Falling - The Fall: Escape from Afghanistan Begins
Project Brazen (US 2022)
Project Brazen (US 2022)
32min Episode 1 of 8
In August 2021, the Taliban regained control of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. The takeover sent shockwaves throughout the country. It forced thousands of Afghans to leave their old lives behind and embark on a hellish journey for survival. In this gripping, eight-episode podcast, Afghans themselves will tell you how it happened. You’ll hear stories about big risks, close calls, and unexpected moments of kindness — or luck — that changed everything. You’ll meet Afghan women and men from different walks of life, and even a young man who chose to fight with the Taliban — in his eyes, to protect the country he loves. This is the story of a home ripped apart — and of a courageous new beginning.
Hosted by Nelufar Hedayat Executive Producers: Tom Wright + Bradley Hope
Producer: Ireland Meacham
Sound Design, Musical Scoring & Mixing: Brad Stratton
A Project Brazen Production
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In The Dark: The Covid Happiness Project
Shrikant Joshi (IN 2021)
Shrikant Joshi (IN 2021)
5 min
The first episode from “The Covid Happiness Project”, a podcast Shrikant made during lockdown. It was an honest attempt to shine a small light in the darkness that was threatening to envelop all of us during the early days of the pandemic.
Written and Produced by: Shrikant Joshi
Music: “Acoustic Breeze” from bensound.com
Selected as part of a new producers listening event be In The Dark
In The Dark: Love is _____ - Love is a Reality Check
Makee Ogbon (UK 2021)
Makee Ogbon (UK 2021)
5 min
This is an episode from the podcast “Love is _____”, an illustrative audio journal detailing a writer’s thoughts and feelings on the experience of love.
Hosted and Produced by Makee Ogbon
Powered by Transmission Roundhouse
Selected as part of a new producers listening event be In The Dark
XMTR Radio Hour Ep17
Social Broadcasts (UK 2022)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2022)
60 min / Episode 17 of 17
This hour is dedicated to sounds from the North Yorkshire Coast and more specifically the Wild Eye Project by Invisible Dust. If you miss the sea or just want to enjoy a moment near the water, the next hour features audio postcards from Scarborough by Lucia Scazzocchio and Silvia Malnati, Sea Songs from beneath the waves by Rob Mackay and words from Alice Sharp from Invisible Dust bringing artists and scientists together to explore environment and climate change.
If I Go Missing the Witches Did It : Do Not Die First
If I Go Missing the Witches Did It (US 2021)
Pia Wilson for Realm (US 2021)
28 min Episode 1 of 9
When a Black writer goes missing, a white podcast host with a saviour complex takes up the cause of finding her and collides with a coven of influencers she suspects are responsible. After a summer in Westchester soaking up how the other half lives, Jenna Clayton has vanished without a trace. The only clue, a set of voice memos detailing an investigation into a group of influencers she suspected were using magic to achieve their means. Elise Edgerton is outraged that no one has found Jenna yet, and decides to take up the cause. But despite believing she is using her platform for good, Elise’s mission threatens to turn her into an even worse villain than a witch: a white saviour.