Transmissions
At The Edge Of The Platform
Dominique Petitgand (FR 2011)
Dominique Petitgand (FR 2011)
6 min
Standing, outside, on the edge of the platform, and the feeling that your head is being cut off. "They're asking for, they're asking for, they're asking for, they're asking for, they're asking for the impossible"
Producer: Dominique Petitgand
Voice: Marta Dansie
Featured on Radiola (Belgium)
Down To A Sunless Sea: Waves
Down To A Sunless Sea: Waves (UK 2020)
Dave Pickering (UK 2020)
38 min Episode 16 of 18
This very personal podcast is about Dave Pickering and his dad and their relationship. It's also about death, old age, care, love, history, change, mental health, science, medicine, art, dementia and friendship. It brings together memoir, clips from over 10 years of recordings of his father and interviews with experts. It takes you on a journey down to a sunless sea.
episode is about movement, memory, change, time, distance, tears, connection, therapy, sadness, love, grief and everything else that can come in waves.
Dave has to come to terms with his father’s memory loss and the fact that no matter what he forgets, it can’t take away the love they have shared, that existed, and will always have existed, even when he has forgotten it; even when he is no longer alive to remember it; even when Dave’s forgotten it; even when Dave is no longer alive to remember it. It happened. And that has to be enough.
General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issues Additional content note: euthanasia/suicide
Produced by Dave Pickering
With funding from the British Podcast Awards Fund and the Wellcome Trust
You Only Guide Me By Surprise: Tape S-1-12
Landry Ayres US 2022)
Landry Ayres (US 2022)
20 min
Described as a suite of sonic somnambulism for those interested in poetry, peripety, magic or mystery. A guided meditation through committee or a dive into hypnosis through a clever plunderphonic escapade of 10 self help tapes from the 70's and 80's.
Producer: Landry Ayres
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No Big Deal
Charlie Billingham (UK 2022)
Charlie Billingham (UK 2021)
17 min Episode 1 of 1
A bit of light relief with this new true-crime comedy thriller. Join acclaimed journalist Emily Stephenson as she delves into the murky waters of a 2004 undercover police operation gone horribly wrong.
True Crime podcasts are ripe for comedy and we’re keen to hear more from Emily and these incompetent undercover cops - you can donate a coffee here ko-fi.com/charliebillingham to get more made.
Written by Charlie Billingham
Starring : Gayaneh Vlieghe, Mungo Russell, Calum Maclean, Lydia Cook, Henry Whaley, Chesney Fawkes-Porter, Cait Mahoney & Charlie Billingham.
Kabul Falling - The Fall: Escape from Afghanistan Begins
Project Brazen (US 2022)
Project Brazen (US 2022)
32min Episode 1 of 8
In August 2021, the Taliban regained control of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. The takeover sent shockwaves throughout the country. It forced thousands of Afghans to leave their old lives behind and embark on a hellish journey for survival. In this gripping, eight-episode podcast, Afghans themselves will tell you how it happened. You’ll hear stories about big risks, close calls, and unexpected moments of kindness — or luck — that changed everything. You’ll meet Afghan women and men from different walks of life, and even a young man who chose to fight with the Taliban — in his eyes, to protect the country he loves. This is the story of a home ripped apart — and of a courageous new beginning.
Hosted by Nelufar Hedayat Executive Producers: Tom Wright + Bradley Hope
Producer: Ireland Meacham
Sound Design, Musical Scoring & Mixing: Brad Stratton
A Project Brazen Production
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Awful Grace: The Treachery Of Sounds
Champagne’s Electric US 2017)
The Champagne's Electric (US 2017)
32 min Episode 4 of 13
You’re never told what you’re hearing but through the sounds you have to piece together what it is that is happening. But is it correct? Have we been mislead? The haunting audio work still has me leaning in at the horror of what I’m hearing, a reality in real-time.
Awful Grace remains a mysterious and understated series of sound art, proving that a podcast can be whatever you want it to be.
Produced by The Champagne's Electric. Originally published for the podcast Awful Grace, or The Tolling of the Void Bell.
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The Root Of The Matter: Woodland
Mae-Li Evens for Reduced Listening (UK 2022)
Mae-Li Evans for Reduced Listening (UK 2022)
32min Episode 4 of 5
Our lives are intrinsically entangled with the plant world: through the food we eat, the medicines we use, and the spaces we inhabit. In this five-part series, writer and maker JC Niala explores what the plant world has to teach us about being human. Join JC in conversation with growers, scientists, writers and activists on a journey through five different landscapes, from the familiarity of the garden to the seemingly hostile wasteland. We’ll take a closer look at the entanglements and stories underpinning the plant world to understand how plants can provide a lens on human health, history and belonging.
We think of forests and woodlands as wild spaces where we can lose ourselves in nature. They also provide us with a wealth of resources such as food, building materials and medicines. But they are also globally under threat of destruction. In this episode, JC Niala delves into the contradictions in our relationship with woodlands, and explores different ways we can think about them, if we are to use and protect them more wisely.
Lead Producer Alannah Chance
Produced by Mae-Li Evans
Music and sound design by Alice Boyd
The Root of the Matter’ is a Reduced Listening production for Wellcome Collection.
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CBS Mystery Theatre: Ep 14 The Girl Who Found Things
Created by Himan Brown for CBS (US 1977)
Created by Himan Brown for CBS (US 1974)
41 min / Episode 14 of 1399
Forget true crime, these mystery dramas were reintroduced in 1974 on CBS Radio as a nostalgic hark back to old time radio. These dramas proved so popular that the series kept going for a decade.
IA young girl with criminal tendencies is taken by a couple who discover her peculiar talent for retrieving lost things - including corpses
Written by Henry Slesar
Featuring Norman Rose, Martha Greenhouse, Bryna Raeburn, Robert Dryden, Barbara Caruso, Anna Costello
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Voicing The Archive
Hannah Kemp-Welch (UK 2021)
Hannah Kemp-Welch (UK 2021)
29 min
During the pandemic, artist Hannah Kemp-Welch was in-residence at the Women’s Art Library, based at Goldsmiths. Reaching out to community groups in New Cross, Hannah photocopied and collated packs of ephemera from artists' projects documented in the library and posted these to local residents. Seven women selected an artist from the archive and responded to their work, recording personal reflections as they looked through materials. This audio essay considers access to archives, and how voices can bring the Women’s Art Library to life.
Produced by Hannah Kemp-Welch
Miss Time
Dinabird (FR/UK 2011)
Dinahbird (UK/FR 2011)
4 min
Miss Time, pays homage to the first speaking clocks born in the early 1930s, who were in fact telephone switchboard ladies, chosen for their fine elocution and stamina, who every 15 seconds, 240 times an hour, mechanically told the time to an invisible audience, regardless if anyone called or not. Each country had it's telephone diva, known for her golden voice and accurate timekeeping. Sadly these marathon performances fizzled out in the sixties when technology made these Time Ladies redundant.