XMTR Radio Hour Ep26 : Steve Urquhart's Audio World

12 Nov

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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