Transmissions
Kitchens Ep6: A Bigger Table
Lecker -Lucy Dearlove (UK 2021)
Lecker - Lucy Dearlove (UK 2021)
42 min / Episode 6 of 6
The final episode of the Lecker six part mini-series about Kitchens
In this episode Lucy meets Betul, a Turkish asylum seeker who recently spent almost six months living in a hotel room with no kitchen, and Jo, co-founder and director of the organisation who explains the importance of people being allowed to cook for themselves and others. As Lucy explains eating together isn’t just about food, it’s a vital part of being human and when this is not possible and we can’t sit around a table and share a meal, so much is lost.
Written and produced by Lucy Dearlove
With contributors Betul Piyade and Joanne MacInnes at West London Welcome, and Marsha Smith.
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I Love You, Odysseus
Cristina Marras (IT 2020)
Produced by Cristina Marras (IT 2020)
5 min
As part of the Cities of Memories project marking the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, over 80 artists from around the world created their vision of Hell as depicted in Dante’s Divine Comedy. Christina Marras takes the character of Odysseus, but describes his heroic story through the eyes of a woman in love, following her hero to hell.
Written and produced by Cristina Marras
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XMTR Radio Hour Ep14 Phonurgia 2021 Selection
Social Broadcasts (UK 2021)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2021)
60 min / Episode 14 of 14
The next hour showcases some winning and shortlisted English language or no language works from the Phonurgia Nova Awards - a celebration of radiophonic creation.
Winner of the Field Recording category Tom Fisher aka Action Pyramid captures the Suffolk countryside with ‘Hoverflies, Reed Pipes, Cockchafers and Bullroearers’, there’s surreal interrogation with 'Daisy Daisy' by Phoebe McIndoe, ‘Loss in Translation’ speech prize winner up by Lucia Scazzocchio and Sasha Edye-Lindner, captures loss and grief during lockdown and ’The Floating Exchange’ by Pierre Costard transports to the troubled waters of Lake Nokoue in Benin.
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Fully Amplified: Ep3 When Two Armenians Meet…
Future Theatre (UK 2021)
Future Theatre and Reduced Listening (UK 2021)
30 min / Episode 3 of 8
Fully Amplified is a seven-part original drama-documentary series exploring the untold stories of over 30 women and non-binary people from all walks of life, brought to you by some of the UK’s most dynamic writers, brought together by Futures Theatre
In this episode we meet two Armenias.
Ojen wakes up in the early hours to find the women of her family taking over her kitchen. The noise, smells, tastes and sounds fill up her small flat with memories: of her past, of her heritage, and of distant horrors that bubble just underneath the surface. Drawing on her own Armenian heritage and celebrating the lives of the Bedrossian women OLD DOUGH is a story by Abi Zakarian about the power of memories, food and resilience in order to preserve a culture and heritage in the face of genocide and denial.
Produced by Reduced Listening
Featuring Old Dough by Abi Zakarian
Directed by Caroline Bryant
Performed by Jessie Bedrossian
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Vanishing Postcards: The Boldness of Black Cowboys
Even Stern (US 2021)
Even Stern (US 2021)
30 min / Episode 12 of 15
Vanishing Postcards is a documentary travelogue in which listeners are invited on a road trip exploring the hidden dives, traditions, and frequently threatened histories that can be discovered by exiting the interstates of the US.
In this episode Even is in Rosenberg, where he meets two cowboys who debunk the Hollywood and comic depictions. in fact alongside the many Mexican vaqueros one out of four cowboys was black in the 1800’s. Larry Callies and Myrtis Dightman Jr are not only working hard to change perspectives surrounding these narratives, but whose stories are epic on their own terms.
Evan’s style is very NPR but he does meet some extraordinary people.
Produced and narrated by Even Stern
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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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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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The Stubborn Light of Things: Ep16 Identity
Melissa Harrison and Peter Rogers (UK 2020)
Produced by Melissa Harrison and Peter Rogers (UK 2020)
25 min / Episode 16 of 28
Nature writer and novelist Melissa Harrison goes out for walks in the Suffolk countryside with her dog Scout. We join her in nature as she muses about the local landscape, the shape of birds eggs and why the birds aren’t singing. She invites Richard Carter to broadcast the sounds of bats from North Yorkshire.
Written, narrated and recorded by Melissa Harrison
Audio production and editing, music, and additional performances by Peter Rogers
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Let’s Stick Together : The Calm Before The Storm
Sarah Cuddon (UK 2021)
Produced by Sarah Cuddon (UK 2021)
14 min / Episode 2 of 2
'Let’s stick together’ explores the process of collage, using found image and sound, and how it reflected our lives during the Covid pandemic.
A beautifully produced collage of sound and interviews with the Bromley By Bow Centre participants. The best way to describe this piece is a patchwork quilt of sound.
A collaboration between visual and participatory artist Emily Tracy and writer Line Langebek & radio producer Sarah Cuddon from ‘Library of Change’, working with The Bromley By Bow Centre and The Rotherhithe Picture Library, plus public sessions with participants from all over the country.
Commissioned by The Library of Change
Magneto Mori Vienna
Mark Vernon (UK 2019)
Produced by Mark Vernon (UK 2019)
47 min
A fragmented sound portrait of the city constructed from found sounds, buried tapes and field recordings. In this de-composition sounds from Vienna’s past and present are conjoined in a stew of semi-degraded audiotape.
Using a portable reel-to-reel tape recorder sounds from around the city were recorded direct to tape over a two-day period. This tape was then cut into fragments and buried in a hole in the ground with a number of tacky souvenir ‘Vienna’ fridge magnets that erase the portions of the tape that they come into contact with. After several days steeped in the muddy earth of a Viennese garden the remaining audio fragments were exhumed, washed, dried and spliced back together in random order.