Transmissions
New Friend Chapter 4 - 1000 Miles
Bitsy Knox (CA, 2026)
Bitsy Knox (CA, 2026)
56 min
New Friend is a 5-part limited series audio documentary that delves into the fascinating story behind photographs taken by the groundbreaking lesbian artist and filmmaker Barbara Hammer in August 1973, on Hornby Island, Ja-Dai-Aich, British Columbia.
It's a story of art, archives, single motherhood, long-distance love affairs and liberation across 1000 miles.
Chapter 4 - 1000 Miles:
It’s the Summer of 1973. Barbara Hammer has had a busy summer, zigzagging across California on her motorcycle, camping and visiting ex-lovers, lesbian conferences and festivals. Along the way, she meets Terry Anderson, a feverishly intelligent single mother of two, an academic with an artistic mind.
Together, they embark on a 1000-mile adventure that will lead them to Hornby Island Ja-Dai-Aich along with two 19-year olds, Martha Ross and Rosemary Allenbach. On Hornby, Barbara Hammer takes three rolls of film, documenting a brief moment in all of its charged artistic and romantic energy.
In this chapter of New Friend, we delve into the torrid mystery of Barbara and Terry's long-distance love affair across dozens and dozens of letters, and culminating in an unforgettable, calamitous road trip.
Listener discretion: This chapter of New Friend contains references to addiction.
Hosted by Bitsy Knox.
Production, research, script and sound design by Bitsy Knox.
Mixing and mastering by Robert Steenkamer.
New Friend was originally aired on Cashmere Radio Berlin and 96.5 CHFR Hornby Island Community Radio. Cover image courtesy of The Estate of Barbara Hammer. New Friend is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. Thank you to: The Estate of Barbara Hammer Hornby Island Community Archives Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Cashmere Radio, Berlin 96.5 CHFR Hornby Island Community Radio KOW, Berlin Company Gallery, New York City Hornby Arts Centre Florrie Burke Louky Keijsers Koning Martha Ross Derek Anderson Rebecca Dunne Emma Walter Emily Harrison All beings, human and more-than-human, of Hornby Island, Ja-Dai-Aich, and its surrounding waters—where I am a part-time, uninvited guest on the unceded, traditional, and ancestral land of the K'omoks First Nation, the Eitsen, Pentlach, Sasitla and Sahtloot peoples.
Festival Selects: Good Clean Fun
Hayley Clarke (UK, 2026)
Hayley Clarke (UK 2025)
5 min
In the past few years I have become fascinated with sauna culture, and its ability to bring people together. It allows people to connect with new people in a space that can often feel quite intimidating. You may encounter people from different walks of life, and speak to people you might not normally interact with. Yet somehow, you’re all on a level playing field inside this sweat lodge.
A couple of years ago, when I was on a self-imposed writing retreat in Worthing, I booked into a local sauna down the road in Shoreham. This is where I met Dan Lawson - Ultra Marathon Runner, Aufguss Master and one of the co-founders of Nomadic Sauna. This is his story to tell, and it’s all good clean fun.
Produced by Hayley Clarke
Festival Selects: 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
Vi's Marvellous Rhymes
Catherina Rowland for BBS Community Radio (UK, 2025)
Catherina Rowland (UK 2025)
105 min
Violet Charlton was a 95 year old poet, or as she preferred to call herself, a "rhymester". This programme is a collection of her rhymes as read by Vi herself. Some are funny, some are sad but all of them are very entertaining. Also included is a short story and an interview about her life in Dagenham and her rhymes.
Produced by Catherina Rowland for BBS Community Radio
Muine Bheag -- Bagenalstown
Jack O'Driscoll & Mark Buckeridge (IRE 2025)
Jack O'Driscoll & Mark Buckeridge (IRE 2025)
28 min
This episode of Muine Bheag Arts Radio delves into the name of our town -- Muine Bheag/Bagenalstown -- through archival recordings and on-the-street interviews, in order to understand its complex and unique history. We meet with local historian John Murphy, students from two of the local primary schools and members of the community to understand their perspectives on the town’s dual name.
Muine Bheag Arts is an artist-run organisation based in a small town in County Carlow that engages with the local context to present projects in the public realm. Guided by values of collaboration and experimentation, Muine Bheag Arts invites dialogue between artists, audiences, community and place.
The programme includes exhibitions, workshops, events, residencies, publishing and radio broadcasts. These platforms provide opportunities for artists to research, test and make through close collaboration with the organisation and members of the local community.
Produced by Jack O'Driscoll & Mark Buckeridge
Edited by Jack O'Driscoll
XMTR Radio Hour #41: Sounding Colossus
Social Broadcasts (UK 2026)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2026)
67 min / Episode 41 of 41
This XMTR Radio Hour is a little different. Lucia speaks to Garry Hunter the director of arts and heritage organisation Fitzrovia Noir - and composer/violinist Jack Campbell about a new commission from the educational foundation that has grown out of the Tommy Flowers community pub in Poplar, East London. The pub’s namesake Tommy Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic computer, to help decipher the encrypted messages sent by the German High Command during WW2. 23-year-old composer and musician Jack M.Campbell has recently written and extensively performed a piece inspired by Alan Turing’s Bombe. With a bursary from TFF, he has now composed a score responding to Colossus, the computer built by Tommy Flowers to greatly expedite the reading of Lorenz traffic. The code was cracked by mathematician Bill Tutte, who, after the war, went on to teach at two universities in Canada, Jack’s home country. Following the conversation about outsiders, music, algorithms and maths, is an exclusive rendition of this composition: ‘Colossus’ by Jack Campbell.
XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
Follow the series
Living Histories - 'Believed and Understood'
Charlotte Petts & Micheal Umney (UK 2026)
Charlotte Petts & Micheal Umney (UK 2026)
26 min
Living Histories shares the unheard oral histories of people who have used or worked in NHS mental health services in Sussex from the closure of the asylums in the 1980's, up to and including the Covid-19 pandemic. Through a series of podcasts, created using clips from these oral histories, we explored the common themes threaded through these real-life stories.
This episode - For people with mental health problems, the right diagnosis and treatment can be transformative, making sense of life and its challenges and building hope for the future. Believed and Understood explores the power diagnosis can hold and the impact it has on recovery.
Produced by Charlotte Petts and Michael Umney.
Project by Heads On Charity supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, NHS Charities Together and Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
Finding The Extraordinary in the Ordinary
Patrick McNameeKing (US 2025)
Patrick McNameeKing (US 2025)
3 min
Laurie Gordon MacKenzie began teaching social studies in Concord New Hampshire in 1987 --the year after the Challenger Shuttle Disaster when Concord High teacher Christa McAuliffe was lost. One of the courses that Laurie started teaching that year was American Women's History, which was a course developed and taught by McAuliffe. As part of New Hampshire Public Radio's series ""Remembering Christa" Laurie Gordon MacKenzie reflects on teaching that class, and the lessons we can still learn from Christa McAuliffe.
Produced by Patrick McNameeKing
Music from Epidemic Sound
2025 Selects: 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
2025 Selects: 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