Transmissions
We Are Voices: Ep 1 Small Heavens
Produced by Bridey Addison-Child and Jude Shapiro (UK 2021)
Produced by Bridey Addison-Child and Jude Shapiro (UK 2021)
34 min / Episode 1 of 6
Through a series of remote workshops, the 12 refugees and asylum seekers involved learned about creative storytelling, scripting, interviewing and sound design. As new podcast producers, they’ve developed the creative skills to tell their own stories, with complete control over the narrative.
Episode 5 invites you to choose your own adventure as an asylum seeker (We couldn’t include this here but follow the link and play/listen there)
Executive Producers: Bridey Addison-Child and Jude Shapiro
Featuring: Diamond and Rima
We are VOICES is a co-produced podcast series made by VOICES Network in collaboration with The British Red Cross
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A Shelter From The Storm
Social Broadcasts (UK 2018)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2018)
23 min
Constructed as an ‘audio portrait’ – this piece takes the listener into what first appears to be an ordinary dilapidated church somewhere in London. The chairs creak and the congregation clap along accompanied by a tambourine and guitar whist they enthusiastically sing generic hymns. The first listener reaction could be an eye roll and a little discomfort at the ‘Kumbaya’ nature of it all. Then the sermon starts and we hear a female Reverend Jak Davis, and quickly understand we are not in the realm of the usual church experience as she talks about persecution and rejection by other churches and communities and how this church welcomes everyone, whatever their sexual orientation or gender preference.
This piece is primarily about rejection and acceptance, but also subtly touches on our own bias and preconceived ideas about the church and Christian worship in the UK.
Producer: Lucia Scazzocchio / Social Broadcasts
Executive Producer: Max Sanderson
Commissioned for The Story – Guardian Podcasts
Radio Diaries - Majd's Diary
Radio Diaries (USA 2018)
Produced by Radio Diaries (USA 2018)
32 min
Majd Abdulghani is a teenager living in Saudi Arabia. She wants to be a scientist. Her family wants to arrange her marriage. From the age of 19 to 21, Majd has been chronicling her life with a microphone, taking us inside a society where the voices of women are rarely heard. She records herself practicing karate, conducting experiments in a genetics lab, and fending off pressure to accept an arranged marriage. In her audio diary, Majd documents everything from arguments with her brother about how much she should cover herself in front of men, to late night thoughts about loneliness, arranged marriages, and the possibility of true love.
Produced by Radio Diaries and broadcast on NPR in 2018
Producers: Sarah Kate Kramer and Joe Richman with help from Nellie Gilles.
Editors: Deborah George and Ben Shapiro
The Left To Die Boat
Sharon Davis - 360 Documentaries (AUS 2012)
Produced by Sharon Davis - 360 Documentaries (AUS 2012)
54 min
An epic saga of life and death on the Mediterranean. Sharon Davis investigates how the combined military power of NATO failed to prevent more than 60 people dying on board a small boat as it drifted for 15 days through the most heavily monitored ocean on earth.
This is an account by the survivors, three of whom are now living in Tasmania, of their epic tale of life and death at sea... but there's also a very disturbing twist. The case of the so called “Left To Die Boat” became the focus of a deepening scandal in Europe involving NATO and some of the world's most powerful nations.