Transmissions
Beautiful Writing
Stella Sims (UK 2024)
Stella Sims (UK 2024)
7 min
Calligraphy is a ancient craft where art, language and words intersect. But in a world of screens, phones and computer-generated fonts, what does calligraphy do for us? Take a journey into the magical world of A to Z as calligraphers explore this question and reveal the joy of letter art and handwriting.
Produced by Stella Sims
The Human Jukebox
Stella Sims (UK 2024)
Stella Sims (UK 2024)
7 min
A portrait of Trev ‘The Pianoman’ Woodison, one of the last remaining traditional pub piano players in the UK. He's on a mission to keep the art of pub piano alive. Playing piano in pubs is no ordinary gig: Trev never knows what he's going to play until he turns up on the night, it's up to the audience to choose and for Trev to improvise on the spot. This audio piece invites listeners to join Trev down the pub as he explains what it takes to be a pub piano entertainer.
Produced by Stella Sims and Kiff Frankham
The Ecco: Space
Lena von Holt (De 2024)
Lena von Holt (DE 2024)
7 min
Lena von Holt usually doesn’t sing. But since she started hearing people sing everywhere, she felt challenged to sing, too. So she tried, again.
THE ECCO is an international non-commercial initiative designed to tug at the boundaries of the world of audio storytelling, journalism, and documentary work. They bring together talents in different parts of the world — journalists, sound designers, audio producers, sound artists, & writers— all united by a common goal: to push themselves and each other out of their work-related comfort zones and explore the different shapes audio documentaries can take, where they may intersect with art and what the impact of such playful exploration can have.
This was made during an immersive retreat where a curated group of talents collaborate, experiment, and support each other in crafting audio projects that are as diverse as they are profound
Produced by Lena von Holt
Empty Clouds: The Waking
Patrick McNameeKing (US 2024)
Patrick McNameeKing (US 2024)
8 min
Nancy, 77, shares the words she lives by, and the story of her enduring love of poetry.
Produced by Patrick McNameeKing
Music by Patrick McNameeKing
Not Enough Sun
Radio Workshop (KE 2024)
Radio Worksop (KE 2024)
22 min
It was May of 2023 and Musana was on a romantic getaway in Kenya with her girlfriend. It quickly turned somber when Uganda's President, Yoweri Museveni, signed the Anti-Homosexuality Act into law. Now what? Should Musana make a new life in Kenya or risk returning home? On the one-year anniversary of the Act, Musana reflects on her decision. This is the first in a two-part series on LGBTQ+ rights in Uganda.
Produced by Radio Workshop (Rob Rosenthal, Dhashen Moodely, Jo Jackson, Qhamani Sambu, Mike Rahfaldt)
Hosted by Lesedi Mogoalhe
Time & Again: Mike
Jack Suddaby (UK 2022)
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.
This is Chicago: Alley
Supraphonic Studios (US 2023)
Supraphonic Studios (US 2023)
7 min, Episode 10 of 18
In an undisclosed alley, a diver finds divinity among the dumpsters. Bada bing, bada boom! Who knew dumpster diving could be so lucrative?
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.
Produced and recorded by Stephen Pate and Ashlie Stevens
Created by Supraphonic Studios
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Nobody Dies Here: Everyone is welcome, not everyone is welcome
Michelle Ransom-Hughes (AU 2023)
Michelle Ransom-Hughes (AU 2023)
29 min Episode 1 of 8
A beautifully produced audio portrait of the Medically Supervised Injecting Room (MSIR) trial in North Richmond, Australia with health workers and people who inject drugs. In the entry zone, staff walk the fine line between extending a warm, non-judgemental welcome to all and adhering to licensing regulations. People from every walk of life present here to access the room.
Producer/ Writer/ Editor/ Sound Design/ Mix - Michelle Ransom-Hughes
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Everyone Else - Pandora
Eva Kresiak (UK 2018)
Eva Krysiak (UK 2018)
22 min Episode 23 of 47
Pandora is an episode of Everyone Else, an audio-visual oral history project telling the stories of strangers. Each episode is dedicated to one speaker, their words edited to ambient sound design and music.
In this episode, a man recalls the summer of 1965 when he decided to track down and write to an iconic flapper and actress of the 1920s, after reading her article in a magazine.
A surprising love story that shifts from fantasy to reality from this award winning podcast, proving that everyone has a story if they are just listened to in the right way.
Produced by Eva Krysiak
A Seat in Soho - Sandra Taboda
Talia Augustidis (UK 2022)
Talia Augustidis (UK 2022)
11min
A Seat in Soho was a multimedia exhibition celebrating the voices, history and diversity of Soho’s lesser-known but two and half thousand-strong residential community.
Created and Produced by former Soho Resident Stella Cecil and Creative Producer Tiphaine Tailleux, in collaboration with 8 long term Soho residents.
This is one of the 8 audio portraits from the exhibition, all recorded from each resident’s home and from the comfort of their favourite seat. The stories touch on the pressing issues of our times, including social housing, loneliness, nature and the post-pandemic world.
Produced by Talia Augustidis
Exhibition Created and Produced by Stella Cecil and Tiphaine Tailleux