The ECCO #2: Ní Mise É / It Ain't Me (Gaelic & English)

Brian Byrne (IE/UK, 2025)

6 min

In “Ní Mise É”, a son stitches a prayer from memory and tape. Both archive and offering, it gathers fragments of a father and lingers on what endures after loss.

Brian Byrne is an Irish audio producer based in London. He accidentally fell in love with audio whilst editing voxpops for live gig reviews. He has created work for Irish national broadcasters RTÉ and Newstalk and was a recipient of the Åke Blomström Award in 2021.

Produced by Brian Byrne
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The ECCO #2: Variations in Memory Flat (Italian & English)

M. Cristina Marras (IT, 2025)

7 min

"Variations in Memory Flat" is a quiet reflection on childhood memories, caught in a kitchen in two languages, between big moments of joy and small, unexpected sadness.

M. Cristina Marras is an audio producer with a background in radio journalism. She creates immersive stories about connection and memory, often using unreliable narrators. Working in English, Italian, and German, she is passionate about incorporating multiple languages into stories aimed at monolingual audiences.

Produced by M. Cristina Marras
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The ECCO #2: Art Of Grief

James Trice (UK, 2025)

8 min

The Art of Grief explores how we keep people alive through graffiti. Ten years after the death of my best friend MIGZ/Mike, his name still surfaces in unexpected places, faded but never gone. Blending my own poetry and narration with kind words from friends and family, the voices of artists like Reeps One and Jim Vision, and the sounds of paint and city streets, this documentary looks at how the graffiti community grieves: by writing names, holding jams, and keeping legacies alive. It is about loss, memory, and the fleeting moments when someone feels present again.

James is an audio documentary and radio producer from East London, now based in Brighton. He began his radio career hosting Hip-Hop inspired shows on Whitechapel AM, London Fields Radio, and Itch FM. A Multitrack Fellow, James made his BBC Radio 4 debut with Hip Hop's Laughing Stock, a documentary exploring the crossover between Hip-Hop and Comedy. His work includes Echoes of Cockney, a personal reflection on the decline of the Cockney dialect in East London, contributions to Life on Lockdown, and sound design for the sci-fi podcast The Rez. James’ poetry-infused documentaries, like Asphalt Lullaby and Saltwater Soul, blend personal, environmental, and social narratives through sound design and storytelling.

Produced by James Trice
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The ECCO #2: Atemübung / Breathing Excercise (German)

Judith Geffert (DE, 2025)

6 min

Wir Menschen atmen jede Sekunde unseres Lebens ohne darüber nachzudenken. Und doch ist es so schwer, sich daran zu erinnern.

We humans breathe every second of our lives without thinking about it. And yet it is so difficult to remember

Judith Geffert is a radio documentary maker from Magdeburg, now based in Berlin. In their work, they like to explore the thin lines between journalism, art and academics. Their work experience comprises experimental radio features, narrative storytelling podcasts, radio plays, reportages and short journalistic pieces. Their latest radio play "Kontaktanzeigen" ("Personal Ads for Lonely Hearts") is exploring the possibilities of dialogue across generations of queer people in East Germany.

Produced by Judith Geffert
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The ECCO #2: Zaupnik - The Confidant (Slovenian)

Katja Stoinić (SI, 2025)

12 min

Katja Stojnić is a podcaster, radio host, journalist & voiceover actor. She graduated from Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (Speech Forms), did her thesis from research of community radio station WWOZ 90.7 FM in New Orleans where she volunteered. She currently works on Slovene public media RTV, second programme of radio, Val 202 and on Italian public media RAI Radio Trst A. Her podcast Rožnata dolina (Valley of Flowers) is giving a platform to people who are usually not seen - homeless, addicts, prisoners, people with disabilities. She is interested in taboos, minorities, climate, relationships, jazz. She is also a host of a music show Timeless, where she is presenting afrobeat, blues, rock, jazz, soul, MPB artist.

Produced by Katja Stoinić
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The ECCO #2: For Beirut, For Linda (Czech & Arabic)

Martina Pouchlá (CZ, 2025)

8 min

Linda can´t remember a language, and her mother can't forget a melody.

Martina’s first moment on air came at the age of seven, when she phoned her local radio station to guess the name of a song. She won a pizza — but more importantly, she had just discovered a passion for radio that would stay with her for life.

While at university, she practically lived in the Radio R studio, where she hosted shows and later became program director. Today, she works as a spoken-word editor at Czech Radio. Her audio work have earned recognition at Prix Bohemia and the Åke Blomström Award, and have also been nominated for Prix Europa.

Martina is the founder of AudioCafé, a collective listening project at Masaryk University, and she’s based in Brno, Czech Republic.

Produced by Martina Pouchlá
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The ECCO #2: Behind The Veil

Nina Porzucki US, 2025)

10 min

A story about falling and landing.

Nina Porzucki is an audio producer from Boston, now based in Asturias, Spain. She currently produces the podcast, Face-Off: the US vs. China with Jane Perlez. She created the fiction podcast, Bird Talk, an official selection at the 2024 Tribeca Festival. Previously, she directed podcasting efforts at GBH launching shows such Detours (from Antiques Roadshow) and the Molly of Denali podcast. She’s also worked as a reporter and producer on the radio program, The World and Subtitle (formerly, The World in Words). Early in her career, Nina had a penchant for joining corps; first the Peace Corps in Romania and then traveling around the U.S. recording oral histories for StoryCorps. Her work has aired on the BBC, NPR, PRI/PRX as well as the podcatcher that you love best.

Produced by Nina Porzucki
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The ECCO #2: Kissing

Phoebe McIndoe (UK/DE, 2025)

6 min

Do you remember a special kiss?

Phoebe McIndoe is an award-winning radio journalist and co-producer of the podcast Telling Stories which featured in Bello Collective's top 100 Outstanding Podcasts for 2021 and was nominated for most Inspiring podcast in the The International Women's Podcast Awards.

Her work has been nominated for Prix Marulic, HearSay and 60 Sec Radio. At the ARIAs in 2022, her co-production ‘Lights Out: The Last Taboo’, won the Silver Award for Best Factual documentary and her more recent work County Lines was nominated by DIG's awards for outstanding international journalism.

Phoebe also runs her own audio playground project called Small Audio Art, where she regularly invites people to submit playful audio pieces.

Produced by Phoebe McIndoe
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The ECCO #2: Midtown

Nadia Mehdi UK, 2025)

5 min

A woman walks around Midtown, Manhattan, searching for a lost childhood memory.

Nadia Mehdi is a documentary artist living in Sheffield - audio storytelling is the most prominent string in her bow but she also works with collage and textiles. She is the recipient of a Rising Star award from the British Podcast Awards, and Best New Producer at the Audio Productions Awards, as well as Arts Council Funding. She has produced work for BBC Radio 4 (Intrigue, Sideways, Archive on 4, Short Cuts) as well as Turner Classic Movies, Africell and the Leo Baeck Institute.

Produced by Nadia Mehdi
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The ECCO #2: Der Hochzeitspakt /The Wedding Promise (German)

Gina Steffens (DE, 2025)

10 min

Was passiert, wenn dich ein Versprechen einholt?

What happens when a promise catches up with you?

Regina (Gina) Steffens is an audio and video journalist at DER SPIEGEL. She studied media law in Cologne and Istanbul. She completed her training as an editor at the German School of Journalism in Munich, subsequently working as a freelance reporter for Deutschlandfunk, the ARD Brussels studio, and various podcast projects e.g. for Audible Germany. In 2020, she was named one of the top 30 up-and-coming journalists under 30.

Since February 2021, Regina has been working at SPIEGEL as a reporter for the podcast "SPIEGEL Daily" and as host of the podcasts "Climate Report" and "Crypto Guru,". In 2024 she started as a host of the daily video and audio format "Shortcut" and became a fellow of the George Weidenfeld Fellowship in London.


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