The Unfiltered History Tour - Hoa Hakananai'a

Produced by Jesse Lawson For Vice World News (UK 2021)

15 min Episode 2 of 10

In school you learn about museums but you’re never taught to question how their collections ended up in their hands. According to many people, the British Museum is the world’s largest receiver of stolen goods. VICE World News brings you the stories of ten of these objects, told to you by people from the countries they were taken from.

The people of Rapa Nui – also known as Easter Island – carved Hoa Hakananai’a centuries ago. This living ancestor was taken by British sailors and given to Queen Victoria.

Produced by Jesse Lawson
Research by Marthe Van Der Wolf
A VICE World News production

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XMTR Radio Hour Ep16

Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2021)

60 min / Episode 16 of 16

The next hour has a distinctly European flavour and will be showcasing work from the Italian radio platform Radio Papesse, the Belgian space for sonic creations RadioLa as well something from the prolific Italian multi-media artist Cristina Marras and a short from the Social Broadcast archive.

Sound artist Anna Raimondo has four languages in her life, French, Italian, Spanish and English and decided that it would be sensible to get some phonetic training to help her achieve a proper British accent. Her Henry Higgins happens to be Australian and the results teeter between absurd and endearing. Me My

English and all the languages of my life by Anna Raimondo
From Radiola.be (by the Atelier de creation sonore radiophonique in Brussels)

Next, we’re going to take a sort of road trip in Sardinia along the St Barbara Mining trail but also on a personal trip down a memory lane belonging to Italian radio maker Cristina Marras’s memories as she goes on this 500k pilgrimage with her friend who is happens to be called Cristina Maras.

The smell of Naptha by Cristina Marras

Back to the UK now to Peterborough and  more specifically to the Portuguese area just off the Lincoln road, where Francesco Costa is having an after-work glass of wine at Tasca, a Portuguese canteen complete with football on the TV and cakes and stews behind glass counter.

Love and Life on Lincoln Road - Francesco Costa by Lucia Scazzocchio
From Radio Local

Now Imagine a camera zooming out up from Lincoln road, up from Peterborough, up from Britain, Europe, the earth and now we can see earth from space. But then we hurtle down towards Alabama in the US, it’s 1954 and a Meteor hits.

Meteor Bodies by Kate Donovan with mentorship from Katharina Metts
From Radio Papesse’s Lucia Festival


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City Of Women - Dicks

Produced by Radhika Viswanathan and Samyuktha Varma (IN 2019)

22 min Episode 2 of 14

How often have you been walking down the street, running an errand or riding the bus when you see something… and you do a double take. Your eyes keep going back to it and your brain goes into overdrive: ‘IS THAT WHAT I THINK IT IS?’ Yes, it’s EXACTLY what you think it is. Long before we got unsolicited dick picks in our DMs and inboxes, we got them unsolicited irl. In ‘Dicks’ we talk to women about the whats, whens and hows of all those dicks.

City of Women, explores the calculated strategies, backdoor negotiations, and often absurd lengths women go to have fun and feel free in their city. Universal experiences told from an Indian woman’s perspective. A fun, complex, joyride into the minds of women and the streets of Bangalore.

Written and produced by Radhika Viswanathan and Samyuktha Varma.
Associate Producer: Menaka Raman.
Music, sound, mixing, and mastering : Erwick D’Souza.
More from Vaaka Media

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Radio Armed Response

Produced by Claudia Wegener (ZA 2007)

60 min

London based artist Claudia Wegener from Radio Continental Drift walks the streets of two suburban communities in Johannesburg S.A. In door to door interviews, at times through intercom systems and across gates, she asks questions related to public safety and a privatised security system. The result is a radio artwork mixed from what the artist likes to call dramatic field recordings. In surprisingly intimate, often humorous conversations, narratives of a complex urban patchwork of communities unfold before your ‘very eyes’. Yet what unravels, far beyond ‘issues of security’, social and urban divisions are shared concerns, questions, stories and visions about living together.

Producer: Claudia Wegener

The original half hour audio piece from 2005 is reframed in recent footage for London’s art radio station Resonance104.4fm

Recommended by Paris based sound artist Dinahbird

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Guardians Of The River : Ep 1 Power To Protect

House of pod / Wild Bird Trust (ZA/US 2021)

43 min Episode 1 of 8

This is the story of the guardians of the Okavango water system. These guardians have a monumental task: safeguard a remote, near pristine environment facing threats from all sides. Join the adventure as the National Geographic Okavango Wilderness scientists and tribe members embark on an epic four-month expedition to follow a trickle of water 1,500-kilometers across Southern Africa. As their journey unfolds, they realise their real quest will take trust, a team, and an alliance with a legendary snake-like demon named Mukisi.

It brings to life the sights and sounds of the Okavango, its animals and people and gives local tribes the chance to finally be heard and participate in one of the world’s most important conservation initiatives.

Directed and narrated by Kerllen Costa
Produced by House of Pod and the Wild Life Bird Trust (South Africa)

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We Were Always Here: They Weren’t Us

Produced by Hana Walker-Bown at Broccoli (UK 2021)

28 min Episode 1 of 6

During the 1980's, Marc Thompson found his feet and his people as a young Black gay man in Brixton, South East London, enjoying everything that life and his community had to offer; family, parties and a safe space to express himself. At the same time, reports of a strange cancer that had been affecting young white gay men begun to emerge from America. It was like a mist, slowly creeping into the consciousness of Marc and his friends. But it was over there and these were white men, so there wasn't anything to worry about it, was there?

Producer and Sound Design: Hana Walker-Brown
Broccoli Productions

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Tender: Ep1 Something Burning

Produced by Broadwave (AUS 2021)

19 min / Episode 1 of 6

Tender takes listeners on a personal journey through what happens when women leave abusive relationships. Each season follows one woman’s story as she pieces herself back together.

In this season we meet Roia Atmar and the crucial moment of deciding to leave her abusive husband begins in a burns unit hospital bed. Not an easy listen but Roia’s bravery and poetic wisdom shines through as we follow her journey to freedom.

Co-producers: Madison Griffiths and Beth Atkinson-Quinton
Lead Storyteller: Roia Atmar
Sensitivity Editor: Shakira Hussein
Assistant Producer: Danae Gibson
Sound Designer and Engineer: Jon Tjhia

Produced by Broadwave  

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The Confidential Briefing

Produced by Fari Bradley (UK 2017)

49 min

The third episode of ‘The Far Becomes Near‘ series examines the social and political history of early radio in the United Arab Emirates. It comes as a cassette tape, handed to you, a member of the British diplomatic core, as you board a chartered jumbo jet for the emirate of Sharjah in the UAE. Set in 1978, the scenario imagines that as you settle down in your seat, heed the ‘permission to smoke’ announcement, you put the headphones of your Sony Walkman on. The cassette is background information in preparation for the International Telecommunications Expo to which you are headed, taking place in Abu Dhabi.
You can also hear Fari Bradley on her weekly with Six Pillars radio show on
Resonance 104.4fm

Producer: Fari Bradley

Commissioned by the Sharjah Art Foundation

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A brief Eulogy for a commercial radio station (The Memory Palace)

Produced by Nate DiMeo (US 2017)

10 min / Episode 115 of 190

A Eulogy for a very American experience of commercial radio from Nate DiMeo, however the rest of the world can relate through the Hollywood export of the importance of those songs the car radio throws up on road trips.

Written, narrated and recorded by Nate DiMeo,


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XMTR Radio Hour Ep15

Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2021)

60 min / Episode 15 of 15

The next hour will be showcasing some audio works featured on xmtr.fm as well as some works produced by Social Broadcasts over the past year. The first piece you’ll hear is from a series of Audio Postcards commissioned for the Wild Eye Project by Invisible Dust in Scarborough who work with artists to explore the environment and climate change. Here are some sounds sent from the North Sea. Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio with sound design by Silvia Malnati.
Next, we travel down south to London and more specifically Hackney’s Ridley Road market where May Robson meets the local traders who are struggling with the imminent changes and inevitable gentrification.

Produced by May Robson with Tamara Stoll who is working on the save Ridley Road campaign. It was broadcast as part of the online magazine The History Workshop
Now, close your eyes and get ready to experience something a little more ethereal as we enter the cosmos through a rich tapestry of sound by Belgian artist Adrien Pinet. This is just one of the many sound works you can hear on xmtr.fm’s Francophone cousin, Radiola.be. It’s an amazing resource.
Our final selection of this hour is from an oral history project Lily’s Legacy, celebrating the life Lily Montagu a magistrate, social worker, writer and co-founder of the Liberal Jewish movement in the UK. Here are some memories of Lily. Project produced by Liberal Judaism with the National Heritage Lottery Fund. There is plenty more to listen to and watch on lilyslegacyproject.com


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