Transmissions
The Fifth Siren: Water
Fill Productions (IT / UK 2021)
FILL Productions (IT/UK 2021)
22 min Episode 1 of 6
When the high tide reaches Venice, four sirens are sounded to warn the population of the incoming danger. Each one of them represents a growing level of emergency, the level of the rising water. Yet there is no sound after the last siren. In 2019, when the storm hit the city, nothing could have prepared Venetians for the level of destruction it was going to bring.
On the 13th of November 2019 an exceptionally high tide hits Venice, creating damage the city has not seen before. People’s homes and shops are destroyed, the power cuts off and the city plunges into a dark, desperate night, trying to rescue what it can. Could this have been foreseen? Are weather anomalies really an exception, or perhaps just something that’s going to happen more and more often? As the world stands watching, we wonder: is this only a cautionary tale for Venice, or for the world?
Written and Produced by Marco Magini, Paolo Nelli, Giorgia Tolfo, Maddalena Vatti
Sound design by Alex Robertson
Narrator: Emily Naylor
Support by Italian Cultural Institute London
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Trade Winds: Ayurveda to Big Pharma: the Wonder of Healing Plants
Scrolls and Leaves (IN 2021)
Scrolls and Leaves (IN 2021)
33 min Episode 6 of 8 of Trade Winds
Trade Winds explores how movement and migration across the Indian Ocean changed us.
In a windswept mountain pass, more than a hundred years ago, a towering Afghan man hacks a Scottish trader to death. Then the killer disappears. A British officer is determined to track him down and rides along the old Silk Route into western China. No sign of the killer but he does encounter a book of Ayurveda unearthed in the nearby desert. The Sanskrit lettering details the power of Healing Plants.
Produced by Mary-Rose Abraham and Gayathri Vaidyanathan
Sound design by Nikhil Nagaraj
For Scrolls and Leaves
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The Unfiltered History Tour - Hoa Hakananai'a
Vice World News (UK 2021)
Produced by Jesse Lawson For Vice World News (UK 2021)
15 min Episode 2 of 10
In school you learn about museums but you’re never taught to question how their collections ended up in their hands. According to many people, the British Museum is the world’s largest receiver of stolen goods. VICE World News brings you the stories of ten of these objects, told to you by people from the countries they were taken from.
The people of Rapa Nui – also known as Easter Island – carved Hoa Hakananai’a centuries ago. This living ancestor was taken by British sailors and given to Queen Victoria.