Transmissions
I Sit in the Shade
Joe Wilkinson (UK 2023)
Joe Wilkinson (UK 2023)
11 min
'I sit in the shade' is an exploration of our perception of time, discovering what we can learn if we spend more time in the presence of trees. It draws from personal accounts, interviews and narration, and uses sound and music to form an immersive, personal meditation around these topics.
Narrated and Produced by Joe Wilkinson
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
The Last Bohemians LA: Gloria Hendry
Kate Hutchinson (UK 2022)
Kate Hutchinson (UK 2022)
32min Episode 2 of 8
The Last Bohemians meets maverick and radical women in arts and culture and takes listeners on a vivid, hallucinatory trip through their extraordinary lives. From subversive musicians and style icons to game-changing artists, these are women who have lived life on the edge and who still refuse to play by the rules.
Lost and feeling adrift during the pandemic, host and creator Kate Hutchinson decamped from London to Hollywood in search of the wildest women in the City of Angels to help her get her mojo back. From Sunset Strip sexpots to Downtown artists, she meets a range of incredible women – and one artistic dynasty! – among the palm trees and bougainvillaea to glean some much-needed advice.
In this episode we meet Gloria Hendry. She made film history with Live and Let Die, becoming Bond's first Black love interest, and took on edgy roles in what were known as the blaxploitation films of the 1970s. She talks about being a trailblazer, raunchy sex scenes, what being a Playboy Bunny taught her about life and how she paved the way for Black women in film.
Her voice is infectious and she describes in her down to earth way how she navigated Black civil rights, feminism, being part of ‘Black Renaissance’ movies and how to navigate being a woman of colour in the entertainment business. Her motto ‘it doesn’t matter what you think of me, I can’t do anything about it’
Produced by Kate Hutchinson
www.thelastbohemians.co.uk
Harness Your Hopes: Ola Owodunni reads ’A Road Often Travelled’
Alan Meaney (2022)
Alan Meaney (IE 2022)
30 min Episode 5 of 6
Harness Your Hopes is a series of 6 podcasts investigating and showcasing fiction. Six of the West of Ireland’s upcoming authors have written a new short story inspired by the theme of ‘harness your hopes’. In each episode the author reads the story and then speaks with the presenter about their craft and inspiration and how the theme inspired them. The aim of the programme is to place the listener at the heart of the artist’s creative process, while finding common ground and some positivity in these difficult times.
Ola Owodunni reads her story 'A Road Often Travelled'. She discusses how the story is based on the life of a friend of hers, the struggles that people in Direct Provision face and the hope in both the story and in life for asylum seekers.
Written and read by Ola Owodumni
Produced by Allan Meaney
Sound Observations with Maria Chavez & Christina Carter
Sonosphere (US 2018)
Produced by Sonosphere (US 2018)
40 min
Sound Observations is a quarterly performance and lecture series featuring experimental artists from around the nation. This recording features turntablist and DJ Maria Chavez, and vocalist and musician Christina Carter of The Charalambides on May 11, 2018. Maria and Christina's site specific works took place in the atrium of the Crosstown Concourse building, an old Sears Roebuck building retrofitted for art galleries, residential and commercial spaces. The result is echoing vocals and scratchy, vinyl sounds that swirl up a red staircase to the entrance of the stage.
Produced by Sonosphere
Selected by guest curator, sound artist Labrador Basin
“María Chavez’s work to me feels so savvy yet subtle. Incredibly developmental yet effortless. As a listener this piece in collaboration with artist Christina Carter facilitates my view of new angles.”
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Changing Tracks: Abbey Wood
Lucia Scazzocchio (UK 2019)
Lucia Scazzocchio (UK 2019)
18 min
Here comes the Elizabeth Line, finally. This won’t mean much to anyone outside London, but for many Londoners this has been a long time coming and for some places this means big changes as they join the London Transport map.
Originally commissioned by London Transport Museum to explore the life, community and sense of place around 2 areas soon to be drastically changed by the arrival of Cross Rail or the Elizabeth Line. This is a moment in time captured through voices of people who live and work in Thamesmead and Abbey Wood in South East London around what will soon become a destination station: Abbey Wood.
Recorded and produced by: Lucia Scazzocchio at Social Broadcasts
City Of Women - Dicks
Vaaka (IN 2019)
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.