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XMTR Radio Hour Ep20 : Sounds Of The Underline
Social Broadcasts (UK 2022)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2022)
60 min / Episode 20 of 20
An hour dedicated to a single project recorded and produced by Lucia Scazzocchio in collaboration with the Tower Hamlets Regeneration team.
Docklands and the Isle of Dogs has changed dramatically since being established as a busy industrial hub centred around the docks to an industrial wasteland in the 1980's and then an ambitious redevelopment with the arrival of Canary Wharf.
The DLR and the infrastructure around this overground railway line has been key to the development of the area.
Talking to local people who live and work on the Isle of Dogs across four generations we will hear about the unique history of the island, how things have changed and how the DLR Underline could be used in the future.
Commissioned by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets as part of the ‘DLR Underline Activation’ project, this audio series recorded from Sept 21-May 22 aims to celebrate the area’s heritage to collectively reimagine the future of the Underline as a public active space.
Recorded and Edited by Lucia Scazzocchio
Recording support Dhevia Sharma
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Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet’s Street-Corner Oasis
Samuel Robinson (UK/US 2017)
Samuel Robinson (UK/US 2017)
9min
On a street-corner, amidst the pigeons, San Francisco’s invisible stars shine.
Around 10pm to midnight each Thursday, at the nondescript intersection of 16th & Mission in San Francisco, regulars, newcomers, and intrigued passers-by gather around an intricate chalk circle drawn on a concrete plaza; a long-running freeform street happening welcoming poets, musicians, comedians, and all forms of creative expression is about to start.
The Corner' as it's known to the numerous regular patrons is an empathetic and accessible-by-design space to exercise San Francisco's best tradition of free expression. Offering community, solidarity, and a public voice for all it resonates with — it is an opportunity for those in the shadows to shine; creatively sharing the inner workings of their mind and experiences living in city witnessing rapid societal change and greater economic inequality.
This beautifully crafted non-narrated montage piece takes the listener right to the heart of this spot in San Francisco - it has a real Kitchen Sisters feel to it.
Produced by Samual Robinson
Recording support: Bayley McMillan.
A Seat in Soho - Sandra Taboda
Talia Augustidis (UK 2022)
Talia Augustidis (UK 2022)
11min
A Seat in Soho was a multimedia exhibition celebrating the voices, history and diversity of Soho’s lesser-known but two and half thousand-strong residential community.
Created and Produced by former Soho Resident Stella Cecil and Creative Producer Tiphaine Tailleux, in collaboration with 8 long term Soho residents.
This is one of the 8 audio portraits from the exhibition, all recorded from each resident’s home and from the comfort of their favourite seat. The stories touch on the pressing issues of our times, including social housing, loneliness, nature and the post-pandemic world.
Produced by Talia Augustidis
Exhibition Created and Produced by Stella Cecil and Tiphaine Tailleux
Ministry Of Ideas: Forbidden Fruit
Zachary Davis (US 2018)
Zachary Davis (US 2018)
30 min Episode 11 of 24
Contemporary diet culture is only the latest manifestation of a long history of religious fervor about food. This fasinating essay makes the links between religious cults and diet culture. Guilt, shame, virtousity, sin, emancipation it's all in there.
Ministry of Ideas is a podcast about the ideas that shape our lives. Hosted by Zachary Davis and produced at Harvard Divinity School.
Produced and Hosted by Zachary Davis
Audio Producer: Maria Devlin McNair
In The Dark Bristol: Creatures of the Rave
Eve Piper (UK 2021)
Eve Piper (UK 2021)
10 min
In The Dark Bristol - New Producers
Creatures of the Rave is a poem about the temptation, atmosphere and thrill of underground raves. It is a first-person narrative account following the arc of one night’s raving, the anticipation beforehand, the rush at its peak and the come down of its closure. The poem aims to uncover what happens at an illegal rave, an unregulated intervention into often discarded public space that can somehow simultaneously be a thing of stigma and status. Eva worked with producers and sound designers to create an immersive drum & bass soundscape to accompany my poem.
Produced by Eva Piper
In The Dark Bristol: The Radio Limbo Creation Story
Pete Hazell (UK 2022)
Pete Hazell (UK 2022)
5 min
In The Dark Bristol - New Producers
A collage piece playing with the contrast between the idea of Godly creation and the often overbearing presence of commercial materialism.
As well as highlighting the absurdity of radio advertising and outdated children’s records, the purpose is simply to promote the radio show's identity and its sense of humour. It concludes with an example of the 7th day being intended for rest, with a reimagined old time radio drama about listening to a broken radio on a Sunday, which in itself contains subversive messages and frustration.
Pete Hazell is a music and radio producer from Bristol, founder of the cassette label Limbo Tapes and host of Radio Limbo.
Producer: Pete Hazel
In The Dark Bristol: Life Partners
Christina Hardinge (UK 2022)
Christina Hardinge (UK 2022)
10 min
In The Dark Bristol - New Producers
What happens when we reframe the relationship to our body as a life partnership?
Life Partners is an immersive unscripted story that brings this question to life, as Hania Fares recounts the highs and lows of her 32-year relationship to 'Bea'.
The piece is inspired by counselling/psychotherapy techniques that ‘bring to life’ trauma through characterisation, adapted by the producer into a device for documentary storytelling after her own experiences of working with this therapeutic process.
Christina Hardinge is an award-winning audio producer, filmmaker and artist working creatively in the field of documentary.
Her work has won the Charles Parker Prize and been broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
Produced by Christina Hardings
In The Dark Bristol: Hidden In The Hills
Chris Baker (UK 2020)
Chris Baker (UK 2020)
5 min
The physical distance between Cornish houses can stretch out for many miles, and public transport between them is typically infrequent and overpriced. In many parts of Cornwall, internet access is still slow, and in some places, un-obtainable. Whilst this can be a nuisance for many adults, it can be incredibly detrimental to the lives of young people. Without the proximity of support and services, the future of this country is quickly becoming hidden in the hills.
Young people selected from different communities across Cornwall were interviewed about their experiences of isolation. These interviews have been brought together to form one shared story. Recordings from the Cornish countryside were also embedded alongside other sounds to try and create a more immersive experience.
Created by British composer and sound designer Chris Baker, this audio work is a combination of sound and speaking. ‘Hidden in the Hills’ is a sonic painting that aims to be both creative and inventive, whilst also relevant to modern Britain.
Produced by Chris Baker
In The Dark Bristol: Rewinding Time - Connecting Through Cassette
Alfie Skinner (UK 2022)
Alfie Skinner (UK 2021)
11 min
In The Dark Bristol - New Producers
A social history documentary bringing the 19-year-old Producer closer to finding out what his parents were like when they were his own age.
Going through their boxes of old records and cassettes, Alfie discovers long-treasured taped voice recordings, made by his Mum and Dad for each other in 1996.
Alfie’s parents met when his Dad was 19 and his Mum was 18. Just months after getting together, they were geographically separated, when his Mum went to teach at a school in the rural areas of Zimbabwe on her Gap Year, leaving his Dad back in Bristol.
The village where Alfie’s Mum was staying was really cut off - with no electricity, running water or phone-lines. Without being able to call or email, to stay connected, his parents’ recorded spoken letters for each other on cassette tapes and sent them by post, never imagining that anyone else would be listening to them 25 years later!
Curious about the technology that Alfie’s parents used to keep in touch, he and his girlfriend use isolation in lockdown to experiment with making their own tapes to communicate with each other.
Despite his excruciating embarrassment at having to listen to his parent’s recorded love letters to make the programme, Alfie comes to realise the important role that the tapes played in their relationship and, in a way, if they didn’t exist, then he might not either!
Produced by Alfie Skinner
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’