SOIL: Rewilding the Underground | Part 1: The Story of Soil
Jess Hamilton (AU 2025)
40 min,
SOIL: Rewilding the Underground is a narrative audio documentary that gives a voice to the hidden life beneath our feet. It follows First Nations custodians, farmers, scientists and communities as they connect with the underground to turn degraded dirt back into living soils, in order to safeguard our climate, health, food security and biodiversity.
In Part 1: The Story of Soil, we follow the movement of organisms below ground as they interact to build the foundations for life. We hear how this ecosystem - and the way we have treated it - has driven the movement of human populations over millennia: from mass migrations, colonial expansion, displacement during the Dust Bowl era, and even systems of slavery.
Written/Created by: Freya Mulvey & Jess Hamilton
Produced by: Jess Hamilton
Sound design: Adam Connelly
Theme music: 'Daisies' by Cooee