Where do I Belong: Shock Waves and City of the Richter Scale

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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Creepy Twisted Asians: Covet

Zag Podcasts (MY 2022)

11 min

Happy wife, happy life? An unassuming husband is disturbed by the growing conflict between his wife and their attractive domestic maid.

The first of 6 spine tingling, unapologetically Malaysian stories adapted from The Big Book of Malaysian Horror Stories. The following anthology series contains diabolical characters, goosebump inducing soundscapes and chilling performances from Malaysia’s creative community.

A Zag Podcasts production

Writers: Terence Toh, Tina Ishak, Chua Kok Yee, Izaddin Syah Yusof, Lai May Senn and Nurul Hafizah Mat Kamil
Producers & Creative Directors: Sumi & Abirami Durai Sound Design: Kael Lim & Michael Smith

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Ties That Bind - Dartmoor

Ian Winterton / Documental Theatre (UK 2022)

Exeter Northcott Theatre · Ties That Bind - Dartmoor by Ian Winterton

23 min

In care since the death of her mother, timid 17-year old Shiona sets out to fulfil her childhood dream: to see Dartmoor’s wild ponies. But, having gone to the wrong part of the moor, Shiona instead meets grumpy octogenarian Malcolm, a Royal Marine who has decided to see out the last of his days on his own terms – camping out in a bivouac.
Thrown together by chance and inclement weather, Shiona and Malcolm grudgingly form a friendship that will change both of their lives forever.

Ties That Bind, is a collection of new audio plays interrogating our relationship to Devon.

Written from the perspective of three different writers, each of the plays in the Ties That Bind series use the Devon landscape as a starting point to explore what feels important to the writers today

Documental documents British life in all its colours through playful, thought-provoking audio, theatre and musical productions, often inspired by interviews and archives.

Written by Ian Winterton
Cast: Thea Mackney, Conor Magee, Rosie Race, Heidi Parsons and Naomi Turner

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