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XMTR RADIO HOUR #35: Accents, Shame and Substitutes
Social Broadcasts (UK 2025)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2025)
60 min / Episode 35 of 35
This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour features a selection of audio works that have been submitted to xmtr.fm: Nanou Thassinda tells her story of belonging and acceptance in the UK through a study of regional accents in Life in Progress by Phoebe Macindoe, Chloe Turpin has uncomfortable conversations with her family in Brittany about a shameful event concerning her grandmother Emmeline during WW2 in Shorn Women, and Giacomo Bagni has to come to terms with the replacement son that his father has chosen to spend time with in Brothers.
XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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Searching for the Lost Language of Cumbric
Caitlin Kennedy (UK 2024)
Caitlin Kennedy (UK 2024)
36 min
In a quest to uncover the lost Celtic language of Cumbric, I hunt for clues in Cumbria's history, folklore, and dialects. Helped along the way by folk musicians, storytellers and a linguist with a secret, I grapple with the complexities of language evolution and how we mythologise the past.
Produced by Caitlin Kennedy with support from Gareth Mitchell and Paul Chauncy.
Featuring the voices and contributions of Neil Whalley, Gordon Jones, Phillip Gate, Tom Fisher and Sheila Fell. Music credit: Joe Broughton Folk Ensemble; Old Molly Metcalfe by Jake Thackray; Jus a wee deoch an' doris by Sir Harry Lauder & Gerald Grafton
Shorn Women
Chloe Turpin (UK/FR 2025)
Chloe Turpin (UK/FR 2025)
33 min
At the end of WWII, around 20,000 women across France were accused of ‘horizontal collaboration’. Their alleged crime: sleeping with German soldiers. And their punishment was having their heads shaved and facing a public beating. Chloe’s grand-mother’s Émilienne was one of the shorn women of French liberation. Like many others at the time, her story was always shrouded in shame and mystery.
From uncomfortable conversations with family members in Brittany to a trawl through the French National Archives, Shorn Women looks at this controversial and overlooked historical event. Confronting official and personal narratives, it's a story about justice, taboo and the power of speech.
Produced, Written and Music by Chloe Turpin
Voices: James Davey, Naomi Bloomstein and George Roll
Pasolini in Beirut - Uncovering Roots
Maxim Saakyan (UK 2025)
Maxim Saakyan (UK 2025)
40 min
In 1974, three revolutionary elements came together in Beirut: a city at the centre of political and cultural change, a filmmaker who challenged ideas of queerness and power, and a cultural space called Dar el Fan. By 1975, all three were gone.
This episode of Uncovering Roots follows not just a moment in history, but a personal search for meaning. For Filmmaker Raed Rafei, uncovering Pasolini’s visit to Beirut became a way to explore memory, loss, and the traces of a city that no longer exists. Through letters, archives, and conversations, the episode pieces together a story that links the past to questions we’re still asking today, about queerness, solidarity, and what it means to remember.
Produces by Maxim Saakyan
Sound Design by Maxim Saakyan
Intro Music composed by Olivia Melkonian
Life In Progress
Life in Progress (UK/DE 2025)
Phoebe McIndoe (UK/DE 2025)
6 min
Life in Progress is the story of Nanou Thassinda and her journey for belonging and acceptance in the UK. After Nanou's dad was murdered in The Democratic Republic of the Congo for publicly speaking-out against the government, Nanou lived as an asylum seeker for 11 years in and around London. In that time, Nanou found hope and empowerment, experimenting with english and the specific regional dialects she encountered as she moved from door to door. This piece is about finding voice, hope and the ever-transitory nature of life.
Produced by Phoebe McIndoe
Voice & Story: Nanou Thassinda.
Executive Editor: Ingo Kottkamp
I Just Needed Something A Little Bit... More
Charlotte Petts (UK 2024)
Charlotte Petts (UK 2024)
12 min
An immersive, multi narrative piece about how it feels to walk a really, really long way. Featuring voices from others who have gone before her, Charlotte tries to find some peace and a sense of her own path on the South West Coast Path.
Created as a final piece for In the Dark audio course. With huge thanks to Nina Garthwaite, Laura Mitchison, Lorna Flutter and Verity de Cala for their ears and input.
Produced by Charlotte Petts
The Third Place
Katie Stokes (UK/HK 2025)
Katie Stokes (UK/HK 2025)
17 min
Floating Space is a six-part anthology for anyone searching for a place where they truly belong. It’s believed that everyone needs three places: home, work, and a space in between. But in a post-Covid, cost-of-living crisis, and online-centred world, how many of us actually have that third place?
This episode explores what a third place is, and asks why we desperately need one? Unpack the decline of third places, how to identify one, and why the absence of one in your life isn’t your fault.
Created, hosted, produced by Katie Stokes
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The Baron Hotel - Uncovering Roots
Maxim Saakyan (UK 2025)
Maxim Saakyan (UK 2025)
30 min
Uncovering Roots is a podcast that investigates stories from the SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa) region. The first mini-series was released back in December 2023, about an Armenian Genocide survivor who became a Hollywood star.
Now, Uncovering Roots returns with the first episode of its new season, beginning in Aleppo, at the doors of one of the most iconic hotels in the Middle East.
The Baron Hotel once hosted kings, spies, archaeologists, and refugees. It was a grand hotel at the crossroads of empire, war, and survival. In this episode, we trace the layered history of the Baron through the voice of Mary Momdjian, whose family built and ran the hotel for generations.
From stories of Armenian refugees during the genocide to Agatha Christie writing her book, the Baron’s past is woven into the fabric of Syria’s modern history. Today, it stands abandoned. A fragile, fading symbol of memory and loss.
Produces by Maxim Saakyan
Sound Design by Maxim Saakyan
Intro Music composed by Olivia Melkonian
Windows: Jill - The Edge of Things
Ivan d'Avoine and Derick Armah (UK 2025)
Ivan d'Avoine and Derick Armah (UK 2025)
23 min
To watch the world pass by from your home’s window is an intimate experience: at once deeply personal and yet universal, cinematic even, at times. Although we all do it, when was the last time someone asked you, sincerely; what do you see when you look outside your window?
Featuring experimental sound design that reflects the processes of art-making and city-wandering, we journey to Central London’s Brunswick Centre to meet Jill Rock, who sculpts natural found objects and geometric constructions under the light of her living room window.
Produces by Ivan d'Avoine and Derick Armah
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Drops from Heaven
Patrick McNameeKing (US 2025)
Patrick McNameeKing (US 2025)
7 min
Alesia shares how she began communicating with the deceased, and the impact of her career as a medium.
Produced by Patrick McNameeKing
Music by Patrick McNameeKing