Transmissions
Sweet Little Human - Bugs, Bees and Bad Decisions
Orkan Media (DK 2025)
Nikolaj Kirk, Roxanne Batty, Jens Raunkjær and Magnus Møller (DK, 2025)
14 min
Mother Nature, played by punk legend Iggy Pop, has had a tough few thousand years. Tired and traumatized by relentless human expansion, they battle many of the ills that plague humans today: Addiction, anxiety, depression. And, of course, cynical, unpredictable rage.T
heir only solace? A good glass of whisky with their clumsy assistant Mr. Bee.
But all is not lost. Mother Nature decides it's time to make a change. And what better way to tell a tragic story about humans but through yet another podcast?
Enter 'Sweet Little Human' - a podcast all about the mess humans have made on planet Earth and their incredible ability to ignore and sidestep the issue. Even if it means the end for their silly little species.
Written, edited and produced by Nikolaj Kirk, Roxanne Batty, Jens Raunkjær and Magnus Møller.
www.orkanmedia.com
Featuring Iggy Pop as Mother Nature, Anjuli Deo as The Editor, and Maya Tekeli as Freelance Journalist Maya Tekeli.
Festival Selects: Buy Me a Drink and I'll Tell You a Story (S2E1)
Thomas Dudkiewizc - URLAND (NL 2025)
Thomas Dudkiewizc - URLAND (NL, 2026)
29 min
A bar. A piano playing in the background. In the corner, a mysterious man is waiting. If you buy him a drink… he’ll tell you a story.
What follows is a surreal, cinematic tale. Sometimes horrifying, sometimes philosophical, always immersive. Each episode, another drink. Each story, stranger than the last. One man, one bar, infinite stories.
Season 1: From the bottom of the ocean to a storm in the desert, from ancient stones to time loops in Room 304. Thomas weaves a masterful tapestry of reality, myth, horror, and memory.
Season 2: The story continues. The second season promises four new unique immersive stories. Life in the wild west, mindcontrolling government experiments, a film noir detective and a very special kind of cider.
All stories are connected through an overarching storyline. But you can also just listen to the separate stories.
n his neverending pursuit to uncover the Story of all Stories, URLAND’s master storyteller Thomas (known for The Last Chapters, Bedtime Stories, and Bobby Baxter) and sound designer Tomas Loos present Buy Me a Drink and I’ll Tell You a Story, an immersive audio fiction series available online. Thomas, the man of infinite stories, voices all characters and writes all episodes.
Written, performed, directed by Thomas Dudkiewicz (URLAND)
Sound design by Tomas Loos
Festival Selects: nmiigea
Helen Zaltzman (UK 2020)
Helen Zaltzman (UK 2020)
3 mins
Helen Zaltzman reads the lyrics to ‘Imagine’ by John Lennon, with the words arranged in reverse alphabetical order, over music by Martin Austwick, based on the chords of ‘Imagine’ in alphabetical order.
Produced and voiced by Helen Zaltzman
Music by Martin Austwick
Festival Selects: Humare Tumare (Your Way, My Way)
Fin Kennedy (UK 2026)
Fin Kennedy (UK 2026)
1h32 mins
A feature length audio drama about an unlikely love story spanning 1960-70s London, India and Pakistan, with a glorious soundtrack from the period.
London, 1975. A young couple embark on a road trip to India and Pakistan with their 10-year old son, to reconnect with family across a border which never used to exist.
As the miles roll back the years, they are forced to confront the consequences of choosing love over tradition.
An epic new audio drama telling the true story of Surjeet and Iftikhar Husain, commissioned by their son Iqbal for his personal family archive.
After a live launch and listening event at Tara Theatre in London, and being featured on BBC Radio, the full drama is now freely available online.
The project showcases Applied Stories' unique approach to turning lived experience into compelling audio drama with an epic sweep.
Writer - Sharmila Chauhan
Director - Jatinder Verma
Sound design and music - Farokh Soltani
Producer and dramaturg - Fin Kennedy
Production assistant - Shemiza Rashid
Cast - Skanda Arun, Adwitha Arumugam, Bobby Khela, Shri Patel, Parvinder Shergill
A Climate Revolution with Songs
Jess Hamilton (AU 2025)
Ned Hartford (US 2025-6)
19 min
Episode One of the 12-episode, Metra: A Climate Revolution with Songs, available wherever you get your podcasts.
Metra is an original musical fiction podcast about how we change the world. The show weaves myth, magic, and music to tell a story about the power of collective action—and about all we have that’s still worth saving. Featuring a Broadway cast including Tony nominee Jeannette Bayardelle, Fred Inkley, Cherrye J. Davis, Corinna Schulenburg, and many more.
Written and created by The Hartfords.
The year is 2043. The world is hot, water is scarce, the weather is unpredictable…and the fossil fuel industry continues to thrive. The wealthy are comfortable in their air-purified, cooled, humidified, superbly hydrated Bubble cities. But in a roadside bar on the Outside, an unlikely group of revolutionaries is about to demand a new story.
Script co-written by Emily and Ned Hartford
Dialogue directed by Emily Hartford
Music and Lyrics by Ned Hartford
Sound Design and Sound Editing by Ned Hartford
All audio produced, mixed, and mastered by Ned Hartford
Festival Selects: Radio Limbo Live From St Leonards-on-Sea
Pete Hazell/Limbo Tapes (UK,2025)
Pete Hazell / Limbo Tapes (UK, 2025)
47 mins
Radio Limbo returns to St Leonards for another guided audio-trip — an unusual quest through original music, collage, soundscapes, and disembodied voices. The show celebrates radio as a shape-shifting portal to other worlds, a wilderness of its own, and its unique qualities of companionship. Join Pete for this curation and performance of surreal scenes and sonic experiments, using local intrigue and lost histories as the jumping-off point.
Pete Hazell is a music and audio artist based in Bristol. His various projects fall under the ‘Limbo’ umbrella, known for their signature blend of curious music, sound design, storytelling, and collage. His cassette label Limbo Tapes focuses on releasing music, monthly residency on Bristol’s Noods Radio is both a mix of new , and in 2024, Pete self-produced and released the audio series Limbo Calling as a podcast, expanding the Limbo universe through character, voice work, and surreal audio fiction.
His latest focus is performance — bringing Limbo sonics to a live audience.
Limbo Tapes
Written, recorded and produced by Pete Hazell
patreon.com/radiolimbo
limbotapes.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/limbotapes
instagram.com/limbo_tapes/
Many Moons Ago
Bárbara Fonseca (PT 2026)
Bárbara Fonseca (PT 2026)
4 mins
Many Moons Ago is an audio piece that reflects on oral storytelling traditions using a family weredonkey story as a starting point. The story, told many times, was transformed along the way, shapeshifting according to each narrator’s will.
In this piece, the artist weaves the voices of her family members with her own, materialising it into an intergenerational narrative. A new collaborative version of the story, containing pieces of each narrators perspective, is created. Not in order to be a definitive version, but to inspire and evoque the fluidity and magic of oral storytelling.
Produced and Recorded by Bárbara Fonseca
Mastered by Wawrzyniec Wróblewski
Tales From the Endarkenment
Ted Barrow (UK 2026)
Ted Barrow (UK 2026)
8 mins
A podcast exploring adapting to life change using biography, drama, interviews and storytelling. What happens when change removes the purpose of your life? Is there life after work? Originally aimed at men and retirement the subject is expanding to include everyone facing changes in the infrastructure of their lives by choice or otherwise
Produced by Ted Barrow
Voice talents of Claudine Eccleston, Lorna Hamilton Brown, Shreyans Iyer, SGH, Paul Freeman and an interview extract from MsM
The Limbotopia Workshop presents... The Widow
Pete Hazell (UK 2026)
Pete Hazell (UK 2026)
3mins
This was made as a promotional micro-drama for the album "Walk With The Militia" by Damos Room (Limbo Tapes 2026).
Inspired by the artist's world-building lore about a Horse Militia, and the title of the last track "Widows" I made this for their show on Radio Al Hara in celebration of the release.
It features the cloned voices of David McCallum, Georgia Ellis, William Conrad and Dick Bentley. In the debate about voice cloning technologies, I offer this in memory and admiration of those actors no longer with us, and the era of audio that they starred in.
Produced by Pete Hazell
Slaughterhouse Road: Act 1
Jess Hamilton (AU 2025)
Jess Hamilton (AU 2025)
20 min
Slaughterhouse Road is a short and sweet, 3-part tragic alt-country australiana romantic horror musical podcast set in a jaded small town on the East Coast of Australia. If you like open mic night at your local pub, fresh hot snags and sweet young country romance, you might just like this little tale. Featuring original music from Tennessee Ham.
Written/Produced/Sound designed by Jess Hamilton.
Original music by Tennessee Ham