Transmissions
Blasstal #1: Moots
Lucy Dearlove and Katie Callin (UK 2022)
Lucy Dearlove and Katie Callin (UK 2022)
38 min Episode 1 of 3
In episode 1 of Blasstal, Katie introduces Lucy to the vegetable at the heart of Hop-tu-Naa traditions of the Isle of Man. They explore the island's folklore with poet and folklore expert Annie Kissack, attend a Hop-tu-Naa celebration at Cregneash, carve their own moots, and finally head out Hop-tu-Naa-ing around Peel. Everything you never knew about Moots or turnips and the traditions connected to this underrated root vegetable.
Hosted and produced by Lucy Dearlove and Katie Callin
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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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Where are you going?
Catherine Carr (UK 2023)
Catherine Carr (UK 2023)
15 min Episode 1 of 4
Catherine Carr interrupts people as they go about their everyday lives and asks simply: “Where are you going?” The conversations that follow are always unpredictable: sometimes funny, sometimes heart-breaking, silly, romantic or occasionally downright ‘stop-you-in-your-tracks’ surprising.
Recorded and Presented by Catherine Carr
Editor: Jo Rowntree
Sound: Dan King
Produced by Loftus Media
Class Divide
Curtis James (UK 2023)
Curtis James (UK 2023)
30 min Episode 1 of 4
This series follows the lives of a family, one daughter and three sons from Whitehawk, whose stories will highlight what a massive difference a good education can make to life chances. Across the series families, teachers and education experts talk about the roots of the UK's education, segregation and subsequent attainment gap and why it’s so bad in places like Brighton and Hove.
Writer and presenter of the series Curtis James says: “I grew up in East Brighton and this podcast series has been in the making since I made my first radio programme in 1990. The stories I’ll be sharing are rarely told by people like us, and it’s important for people to understand where the issues are, so the city can begin to make things fairer. The ideal outcome from this series is that the good people of Brighton get together, work together, to ensure every child gets the support they need to learn and thrive. It’s going to take the whole city to support the education of all of its children.”
Produced and Hosted by Curtis James
The Gospel of Harm Reduction
Haley Paskalides (US 2022)
Haley Paskalides (US 2022)
10min
In this traditional 'NPR' style radio reporting, Haley Paskalides meets Jesse Harvey who created the Church of Safe Injection to give drug users in Maine the resources and support they needed. This story is about how the organisation decided to move forward in the wake of his passing and the women who kept his dream alive.
PLEASE NOTE: This story contains references to substance misuse disorder and sexual abuse. Please take care while listening.
Produced and hosted by: Haley Paskalides
Produced for the Salt Institute
Doing Bird
Steve Urquhart (UK 2022)
Steve Urquhart (UK 2022)
20min Episode 1 of 2
Inmates at HMP Perth engage with archive birdsong and oral history recordings from the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club in a unique, creative audio art collaboration. Peesweeps meet hip hop beats, grouse unlock coded prison language, and an unhatched kestrel chick provokes philosophy.
Engaging with Scotland's archive birdsong recordings encourages the men to recall positive memories, to spark creativity, to reflect on the purpose of prison, and to re-evaluate their connection to the world beyond prison walls. They also think deeply about the accessibility and value of oral history recordings, and about who gets to be involved.
Produced by Steve Urquhart
‘Doing Bird’ is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
Edgeland
Hayley Suviste (UK 2021)
Hayley Suviste (UK 2020)
24 min
As Manchester’s streets and skyline are warped by the ever-accelerating process of urban renewal, the city’s edgelands and green spaces are at risk of being swallowed by waves of property development. Not only does this raise questions about the ecology of the city, as carbon sinks are flattened and wildlife is displaced, but it speaks to broader trends pushing urban residents away from shared space, community and local identity.
This project shines a light on these spaces and the activists, academics, and local people who have taken up the daunting fight against corporate interests in the city in the name of biodiversity, urban ecology and community wellbeing. As we are faced with crises of both environment and mental health, the role of public green spaces has become ever more crucial in the eyes of those who enjoy, nurture, and maintain them
Hayley Suviste is a sound artist and composer based in Manchester (UK). She works with field recordings, archival material, electronic hardware, and live instrumentation to create long-form compositions, sonic installations, and multimedia art projects. Inspired by folk traditions and oral histories, Hayley is interested in the role of sound and voice in constructing and reproducing cultural identities and socio-historical narratives and how new compositional technologies can engage communities with overlooked stories about their environments.
Produced by Hayley Suviste
Commsioned by HCMF
Birds Eye View: Ep1 Making Herstory
Story Projects (AUS 2020)
Produced by Story Projects (AUS 2020)
38 min / Episode 1 of 10
BIRDS EYE VIEW is the culmination of a two-year audio storytelling project run by StoryProjects in the Darwin Correctional Centre. One of a number of public health initiatives designed to minimise alcohol-related harm, the project involved workshops and mentoring in field recording, interviewing, editing, vocal techniques, body percussion, scripting and slam poetry.
Framed by three questions - Who are we really? How did we get here? and Where to next? - project participants documented their memories, reflections and the everyday routines of prison life.
Episode 1: Travel into the Darwin Correctional Centre where you’ll meet Rocket, who has spent most of her adult life in prison, along with a bunch of birds.
Executive production: Johanna Bell
Production: Cinnamon Nippard, Leah Sanderson and Johanna Bell
Mixing: Hamish Robertson
BIRDS EYE VIEW was co-created with women in the Darwin Correctional Centre. Over two years, more than 70 women engaged in the project, with more than 30 regularly involved.
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Climate Frequencies: Ep 4: Veins of the Planet
Femi Oriogun-Williams (UK 2021)
Femi Oriogun-Williams / Reduced Listening (UK 2021)
30min
Musician and artist Natalie Sharp enters the veins of the planet: its rivers, waterways and oceans. Artist Carolina Caycedo discusses the effects that large dams have on ecosystems across the globe; whilst legal expert Erin O’Donnell talks about the fight to grant rivers the same rights as humans; and poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs asks us to consider what it might mean to become an apprentice to a marine mammal.
Presented by Natalie Sharp
Produced and sound designed by Femi Oriogun-Williams, exec produced by Alannah Chance
A Reduced Listening Production for Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet’s Street-Corner Oasis
Samuel Robinson (UK/US 2017)
Samuel Robinson (UK/US 2017)
9min
On a street-corner, amidst the pigeons, San Francisco’s invisible stars shine.
Around 10pm to midnight each Thursday, at the nondescript intersection of 16th & Mission in San Francisco, regulars, newcomers, and intrigued passers-by gather around an intricate chalk circle drawn on a concrete plaza; a long-running freeform street happening welcoming poets, musicians, comedians, and all forms of creative expression is about to start.
The Corner' as it's known to the numerous regular patrons is an empathetic and accessible-by-design space to exercise San Francisco's best tradition of free expression. Offering community, solidarity, and a public voice for all it resonates with — it is an opportunity for those in the shadows to shine; creatively sharing the inner workings of their mind and experiences living in city witnessing rapid societal change and greater economic inequality.
This beautifully crafted non-narrated montage piece takes the listener right to the heart of this spot in San Francisco - it has a real Kitchen Sisters feel to it.