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.
Between two rivers - a journey into the mind of the land/Rhwng dwy afon - Taith i feddwl y tir
Ed Baxter (UK 2026)
Ed Baxter (UK 2026)
56 min
Between two rivers: a journey into the mind of the land/Rhwng dwy afon: Taith i feddwl y tir” is a radio artwork in English and Welsh, realised close to the sources of the rivers Severn and Wye, in Ceredigion, Wales.
Created by Ed Baxter (BASCA Composer of the Year 2013 etc), Steffan Cennydd (Theatr Cymru’s “Romeo a Juliet” 2025 etc); Richard James (Evolution of Beauty; Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci etc); and Michael Umney (Gold Award Winner, New York Festivals Radio Awards 2025; Winner, URTI Radio Grand Prix 2024 etc). With contributions from Dan Craig, Sandy Craig, Neil Haymer, Dewi Roberts and members of Tai Haf Heb Drigolyn. Thanks to all at The Hanging Garden, Llanidloes, Amanda Thesiger and Tim Meacham. Supported by The Colwinston Foundation, Hinrichsen Foundation, The Leche Trust and Unity Theatre Trust.
Produced by Ed Baxter
Narration Steffan Cennydd
Music, field recordings by Richard James
Interviews, field recordings by Michael Umney
Beneath the City is Soil
Robyn Moffat (UK, 2026)
Robyn Moffat (UK 2026)
34 min
A new narrative documentary podcast uncovering how communities are building climate resilience as heatwaves and wildfires sweep Europe.
The recent UK heatwave - alongside devastating wildfires across the UK, France and Spain - has made one thing clearer than ever: we urgently need new ways to live with a rapidly changing climate. Beneath the City is Soil, a new six-part narrative documentary podcast from Transmission Roundhouse, responds directly to this moment. Launching 25 August, the series traces how London’s communities are reimagining public space, community and collective action in the face of deepening inequality and environmental breakdown.
Hosted by Robyn Moffat, the series follows organisers, horticulturalists, environmental social scientists and educators who are building alternative futures from the ground up. Through field interviews, narrative storytelling, folk tales and immersive sound design, Beneath the City is Soil explores how climate change is inseparable from housing, land ownership, public space and the politics of who gets to shape the city.
Part 1 explores land and ownership - the roots of England’s housing crisis, access to land, and the history of the Right to Roam movement, featuring campaigner and social scientist Lewis Winks.
Produced by Robyn Moffat
Powered by Transmission Roundhouse.
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SOIL: Rewilding the Underground | Part 1: The Story of Soil
Jess Hamilton (AU 2025)
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
Landed - The Family Farm
Farmerama (UK 2021)
Farmerama / Col Gordon and Katie Revell (UK 2021)
30 min
What if we’ve been getting this wrong?” Col Gordon is a farmer’s son from the Scottish Highlands. After a decade away, he’s finally returned to the place that he loves: his family farm. Now, he’s eager to start realising his vision for an agroecological future: a future in which rural areas are alive with culture, many more people work on the land, farms operate in sympathy with nature, and nutritious food is available to everyone in society. But now that he’s back, Col’s starting to wonder whether this vision can be achieved within the existing family farm model. Increasingly, it seems the odds are stacked against farms like his.
Many are struggling to survive, let alone to employ people and deliver good food affordably to local communities. As older farmers retire without succession plans, and their land is amalgamated into large industrial operations, the future of the small family farm looks pretty bleak. As he wrangles with all of this, Col stumbles across something that throws his vision – and his very understanding of farming – into doubt. What does it mean to say that “The family farm is a colonial concept”? And might this jarring idea be the key to understanding the problem – as well as its potential solutions?
Produced by Col Gordon and Katie Revell
Executive Producer Abby Rose
Music by Dagger Gordon and Col Gordon