Transmissions
2000 Plus: Flying Saucers
Dryer/ Weenolsen (US 1950)
Dryer / Weenolsen - MBS (US 1950)
30 min
2000 Plus (aka Two Thousand Plus and 2000+) was an American old-time radio series that ran on the Mutual Broadcasting System from 1950 to 1952, in various 30-minute time slots. A Dryer Weenolsen production, it was the first adult science fiction series on radio using all new material.
The radio equivelant to a black and white saturday matine movie; dated, kitsch and a journey into another era.
Produced by : Sherman H. Dryer
Written by: Robert Weenolsen
The Crossing Guard Tapes: Tape 1 Side A
Jim Waters (US 2023)
Jim Waters (US 2023)
13 min
In a world where cities are playgrounds and playgrounds are arenas. Where arenas are battlegrounds, and battlegrounds are sectioned into streets and streets are bisected by school crosswalks and school crosswalks are the frontline in an ancient battle where crossing guards are the warriors that stand between the everyday, holding up a stop sign to the end of days... and the end of days is going way over 15 MPH/30 KPH in a school crossing zone.
When Mike Limbo gets hired as a Crossing Guard, he’s slowly dragged into an underground world he never knew existed…
You’ll never look at crossing guards (lollipop people in the UK) in the same way again.
Produced by : Jim Waters
Tramlines Route 59: School Days Past
Sharmini Kumar / Broadwave ( 2023)
Sharmini Kumar / Broadwave (AU 2023)
34 min
A woman has taken her 12 year old daughter for high school orientation at a school near Essendon train station. As they take the tram home (towards Airport West), the mother tells her daughter about her own high school days, the memories she has of catching the tram, of meeting boys at the Airport West shopping centre, and her experiences of high school.
Thiis has been written and produced to be listened to on the Melbourne Tramline and specifically Route 59, but can of course be enjoyed anywhere with a little imagination.
Written and read by Sharmini Kumar
Produced by Beth Atkinson-Quinton
A Broadwave Production
Outside Is The Sky
James Ginzburg and Patrick Eakin Young (UK 2021)
James Ginzburg and Patrick Eakin Young (UK 2021)
31 min
The jagged surfaces and iridescent veneers of electronic artist Aho Ssan’s labyrinthine debut become the material and psychological furnishings of a sonic dystopia in this chilling allegorical fable. Like all Class 8 citizens, Désiré has spent his entire life confined to cramped living quarters, with no access to the outside world. When his parents suddenly vanish from the apartment, he is forced to confront his own role in their disappearance, and begins to question everything he thought he knew about his situation.
From the award winning Soundworlds - an audio stage for diverse stories told in extraordinary ways. It’s a place for an exciting new form of audio drama that we call sonic theatre.
Written with artist/musician James Ginzburg
Directed by Patrick Eakin Young
Produced by Eleanor Turney & George Warren
The True Crime of Your Frozen Death
Ross Sutherland and Cristina Marras (UK/IT 2022)
Ross Sutherland and Cristina Marras (UK/IT 2022)
44 min
A homage to the Giallo film genre, set within the True Crime podcasting scene. What happens when an Italian podcaster becomes the protagonist of their own true-crime podcast? An absurd foray into the genre in Italian.
As Ross says in his intro, you can give it a try without being able to understand a word (if you don’t speak Italian) or you can also get the subtitled version here:
From Imaginary Advice
Story by Ross Sutherland
Translated by Cristina Marras and performed by Cristina Marras
Original music by Jeremy Warmsley
Creepy Twisted Asians: Covet
Zag Podcasts (MY 2022)
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)
Ian Winterton / Documental Theatre (UK 2022)
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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In The Dark: The Everything Is Fine Forecast
Ewan Cameron (UK 2022)
Ewan Cameron (UK 2022)
7 min
The Shipping Forecast but it's you having a panic attack.
Produced and performed by Ewan Cameron as part of an ongoing podcast called Randomly Generated Thought.
Selected as part of a new producers listening event be In The Dark
Soundworlds: Town Is By The Sea
Soundworlds (CA/UK 2022)
Anna Rheingans / Joanne Schwartz / Patrick Eakin Young (CA/UK 2022)
19 min
An audio picture book conjuring impressions from a childhood spent in the coastal mining communities of Nova Scotia. We follow Davey as he describes his daily routine: from waking up with the sea sparkling outside his window, to playing with his friends, buying groceries for his mother, and visiting his grandfather’s grave. Throughout the day, his thoughts keep returning to his father, working in the coal mines deep beneath the town.
Soundworlds is not just a podcast. It’s an audio stage for diverse stories told in extraordinary ways. It’s a place for an exciting new form of audio drama that we call sonic theatre. Created by musicians, writers, theatre-makers and sound artists, sonic theatre pieces are more than radio plays. They’re immersive sound worlds, intoxicating blends of music and storytelling, sound design, documentary and fiction.
Directed by Patrick Eakin Young
Music composed and performed by Anna Rheingans
Sound design and mixing: Ross Flight
Text by Joanne Schwartz, adapted from her 2017 book with illustrator Sydney Smith
The Broomway
Tamsin Howard (UK 2022)
Tamsin Howard (UK 2022)
7 min
An immersive audio drama based on an inquest which occurred after two men drowned on the infamous path at Matlin Sands in Essex.
This short drama cleverly combines two narratives, one describing a tragic event through an inquest and the other takes us to the heart of the tragedy, humanising it beyond a local news story.
Recorded and produced by Tamsin Howard