Transmissions
Festival Selects: Star Map
Nanna Hauge Kristensen (DK, 2024)
Nanna Hauge Kristensen (DK 2024)
6 min
A personal piece about human navigation, star maps and star sounds.
Produced by Nanna Hauge Kristensen
Produced for Falling Tree. Featured on Short Cuts, “Constellations”, BBC4. With Ferdinand Hauge Leth.
Music by Kirstine Lindemann, captured by Trawl Hz.
Festival Selects: Bower
Phil Smith (UK, 2022)
Phil Smith (UK 2022)
6 min
A radio song of summer's ending
Produced by Phil Smith for Short Cuts (BBC Radio 4) exec: Eleanor MacDowall).
1001 Stabs
Lina Prestwood (UK, 2025)
Lina Prestwood (UK 2025)
8 min
To be born in Gaza is to be born already bleeding.
Before you take your first step, a blade is pressed gently, precisely, against your soul, the first of 1001 stabs
Fadi Almeghari was killed on Tuesday 26th May 2026 by Israeli forces. He was 25, the main breadwinner of his community and the primary carer for several children orphaned by IOF attacks. His writing and photography were internationally celebrated for their emotionally nuanced and evocative portrayal of life under occupation and more recently, genocide. His work can be seen on his Instagram page @fadimghari and his dependents can be supported at gofund.me
Produced by Lina Prestwood
Written in August 2025 by F. (Gaza)
Read by F. and Lyana Mansour (USA)
With thanks to Fatima Zahra Gahzli (Turkey)
Poets on the Radio
Dennis Gaens (NL 2026)
Dennis Gaens (NL 2026)
27 min
Poets on the radio is an audio-essay exploring the conncections between poetry and radio - historical, contemporary and speculative. It draws on various historical works and on interviews with radio producers (and poets) Sean Cole, Ross Sutherland and Pejk Malinovski to map where radio becomes poetry. In times where celebrity chatcasts and AI generated shows are crowding the podcast charts, it is also a plea for more sound forward, experimental and borderless radio storytelling. It ends on the belief that radio can be a meeting place for all kinds of imagination, a door to an expanded consciousness.
Produced by Dennis Gaens
Edited by Femke Zwiep & Ka(a)te Dejonckheere
XMTR Festival Selects: 1001 Stabs
Lina Prestwood (UK, 2025)
Lina Prestwood (UK 2025)
8 min
To be born in Gaza is to be born already bleeding.
Before you take your first step, a blade is pressed gently, precisely, against your soul, the first of 1001 stabs
Produced by Lina Prestwood
Written in August 2025 by F. (Gaza)
Read by F. and Lyana Mansour (USA)
With thanks to Fatima Zahra Gahzli (Turkey)
The Stone Men of Newcastle
Daniel Hinds (UK 2022)
Daniel Hinds (UK 2022)
14 min
The Stone Men of Newcastle is a sequence of poems told through the eyes of The Commuter, the speaker and poet-figure, as he encounters the statues of Newcastle as part of his daily life working in the city. The sequence takes in Sir Antony Gormley’s vandalised Clasp sculpture, the St George and the Dragon war memorial at Eldon Square, another monument for the First World War, The Response 1914, and the Mercutio statue in Newcastle’s Theatre Royal. The Stone Men of Newcastle concludes with a consideration of the future figures we will immortalise in bronze and stone. The sequence enters into the current debate, typified by the Rhodes Must Fall movement and the toppling of the Edward Colston statue in Bristol, on how we engage with art and history in the form of statues. The statues sometimes co-exist uneasily with their setting: they are surrounded by the distractions of modern life, represent a past impossible to compete with or at odds with our values, and are vulnerable to defacement. Yet, they can also be sources of inspiration, beauty, and connection to the past, sites of contemplation as well as conflict.
Writer Daniel Hinds
Cast: Dan Pyre and Stacey Ghent
Lead Audio Production Partner: Naked Productions
Partners: BBC New Creatives, Tyneside Cinema, Arts Council England, BBC Arts.
The Ecco: Red of Visibility
Phoebe McIndoe (DE 2024)
Phoebe McIndoe (DE 2024)
7 min
Growing up I went to a catholic primary school where the school emblem and colour was red. We had a visiting doctor who would see us in the head mistress' study without our red uniforms on. In this red space I had my first experience of bad touch. Or as I now call it, sexual assault. This piece is an attempt, years later, to explore and reclaim the colour red.
THE ECCO is an international non-commercial initiative designed to tug at the boundaries of the world of audio storytelling, journalism, and documentary work. We bring together talents in different parts of the world — journalists, sound designers, audio producers, sound artists, & writers— all united by a common goal: to push themselves and each other out of their work-related comfort zones and explore the different shapes audio documentaries can take, where they may intersect with art and what the impact of such playful exploration can have.
This was made during an immersive retreat where a curated group of talents collaborate, experiment, and support each other in crafting audio projects that are as diverse as they are profound
Produced by Phoebe McIndoe
The Ecco: Space
Lena von Holt (De 2024)
Lena von Holt (DE 2024)
7 min
Lena von Holt usually doesn’t sing. But since she started hearing people sing everywhere, she felt challenged to sing, too. So she tried, again.
THE ECCO is an international non-commercial initiative designed to tug at the boundaries of the world of audio storytelling, journalism, and documentary work. They bring together talents in different parts of the world — journalists, sound designers, audio producers, sound artists, & writers— all united by a common goal: to push themselves and each other out of their work-related comfort zones and explore the different shapes audio documentaries can take, where they may intersect with art and what the impact of such playful exploration can have.
This was made during an immersive retreat where a curated group of talents collaborate, experiment, and support each other in crafting audio projects that are as diverse as they are profound
Produced by Lena von Holt
Empty Clouds: The Waking
Patrick McNameeKing (US 2024)
Patrick McNameeKing (US 2024)
8 min
Nancy, 77, shares the words she lives by, and the story of her enduring love of poetry.
Produced by Patrick McNameeKing
Music by Patrick McNameeKing
The Nut Owl: 1. The Nut Owl and the Tree of Origin
Stuart Russell (UK 2024)
Stuart Russell (UK 2024)
5 min Episode 1 of 18
Adventure awaits the curious Nut Owl who must travel the multiverse to make a very special delivery... This series of narrative poems explores life and meaning in the cosmos, allowing for a brief yet beautiful escape.
Before being thrown into chaos the Nut Owl grows peacefully in space...
Writer, Narrator & Producer: Stuart Russell
Music, Mixing & Sound Design: Peter Baumann
Original poetry, concept & characters created by Stuart Russell
An Eyebrow Media Production