Transmissions
Radio Armed Response
Claudia Wegener (ZA 2007)
Produced by Claudia Wegener (ZA 2007)
60 min
London based artist Claudia Wegener from Radio Continental Drift walks the streets of two suburban communities in Johannesburg S.A. In door to door interviews, at times through intercom systems and across gates, she asks questions related to public safety and a privatised security system. The result is a radio artwork mixed from what the artist likes to call dramatic field recordings. In surprisingly intimate, often humorous conversations, narratives of a complex urban patchwork of communities unfold before your ‘very eyes’. Yet what unravels, far beyond ‘issues of security’, social and urban divisions are shared concerns, questions, stories and visions about living together.
Producer: Claudia Wegener
The original half hour audio piece from 2005 is reframed in recent footage for London’s art radio station Resonance104.4fm
Recommended by Paris based sound artist Dinahbird
Here There Dragons: Paris: Mixité (Diversity)
Jess Myers (FR 2017)
Jess Myers (FR 2017)
21 min / Episode 1 of 5 (Season 2)
Jess Myers, urbanist and editor focusing on urban planning and architecture explores the cultures and the urban condition of cities. After exploring gentrification in New York, the second season of Here There Dragons takes her to Paris to try and understand how the city works from a social and cultural perspective.
In this episode she explore the concept of ‘Mixité’. Does a good social mix create greater security for urban residents? This episode we're talking mixité or diversity. How does it affect public space socially and politically in the Parisian region.
Produced by: Jess Myers
Guardians Of The River : Ep 1 Power To Protect
Guardians of the River (US 2021)
House of pod / Wild Bird Trust (ZA/US 2021)
43 min Episode 1 of 8
This is the story of the guardians of the Okavango water system. These guardians have a monumental task: safeguard a remote, near pristine environment facing threats from all sides. Join the adventure as the National Geographic Okavango Wilderness scientists and tribe members embark on an epic four-month expedition to follow a trickle of water 1,500-kilometers across Southern Africa. As their journey unfolds, they realise their real quest will take trust, a team, and an alliance with a legendary snake-like demon named Mukisi.
It brings to life the sights and sounds of the Okavango, its animals and people and gives local tribes the chance to finally be heard and participate in one of the world’s most important conservation initiatives.
Directed and narrated by Kerllen Costa
Produced by House of Pod and the Wild Life Bird Trust (South Africa)
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Ear Of The Edgeland: Breydonsound
Eastern Ear (UK 2019)
Produced by Eastern Ear (UK 2019)
38 min, Episode 2 of 4
Ear of the Edgeland’ is a series of podcasts that takes an explorative and alternative look at Norfolk. Author and curator, Sarah Lowndes is in conversation with Yarmouth-based painter, Bruer Tidman. The conversation is punctuated with music from artist and musician, Jason Parr with field recordings of Breydon Water, Burgh Castle and from under Breydon bridge.
Producer: Richard Fair and Oliver Payne
Eastern Ear
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We Were Always Here: They Weren’t Us
Hana Walker Brown - Broccoli (UK 2021)
Produced by Hana Walker-Bown at Broccoli (UK 2021)
28 min Episode 1 of 6
During the 1980's, Marc Thompson found his feet and his people as a young Black gay man in Brixton, South East London, enjoying everything that life and his community had to offer; family, parties and a safe space to express himself. At the same time, reports of a strange cancer that had been affecting young white gay men begun to emerge from America. It was like a mist, slowly creeping into the consciousness of Marc and his friends. But it was over there and these were white men, so there wasn't anything to worry about it, was there?
Producer and Sound Design: Hana Walker-Brown
Broccoli Productions
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Soundwalk In The Morning Rain
Lina Chang (US 2020)
Produced by Lina Chang (US 2020)
2 min
An audio collage of field recordings from NYC, made in response to Cities and Memory's collection 'Smithsonian Treasures'. Inspired by a letter addressed to Miss Wheaton, by the artist Elizabeth W. Capron as part of the Smithsonian Treasures online exhibition of recordings submitted in response to the Smithsonian collection.
Producer: Lina Chang
The Nami Podcast : Of Those In The Darkness
The Nami Project (GHAN 2020)
The Nami Project (GHAN 2020)
9 min Episode 5 of 8
The Nami Podcast is an anthology podcast of lightly dramatised stories and poetry by West African writers bridging the cultural gap between oral narration of stories and writing.
In this tale Sierra Leonian writer Victor Forna gathers elements of a world that existed long before ours, telling a tale of forgotten beings, deceit and betrayal.
Written by Victor Forna
Narrated by Tsidi
Produced by The Residence Studio
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Tender: Ep1 Something Burning
Broadwave (AUS 2021)
Produced by Broadwave (AUS 2021)
19 min / Episode 1 of 6
Tender takes listeners on a personal journey through what happens when women leave abusive relationships. Each season follows one woman’s story as she pieces herself back together.
In this season we meet Roia Atmar and the crucial moment of deciding to leave her abusive husband begins in a burns unit hospital bed. Not an easy listen but Roia’s bravery and poetic wisdom shines through as we follow her journey to freedom.
Co-producers: Madison Griffiths and Beth Atkinson-Quinton
Lead Storyteller: Roia Atmar
Sensitivity Editor: Shakira Hussein
Assistant Producer: Danae Gibson
Sound Designer and Engineer: Jon Tjhia
Mother In The Fridge
Felix Kubin (DE 2012)
Produced by Felix Kubin (DE 2012)
30 min
What does your own mother sound like in the refrigerator? Felix Kubin tried it. And not only that. His mother also speaks from the cooking pot, the waste bin and a box. And in English, too, because the son not only does acoustic experiments, but also has to practice for a trip abroad. The mother is doing well. From the various containers she gives little lessons in English grammar by phone. An Oedipal burlesque without a script.
Producer: Felix Kubin
Produced for Vicki Bennett’s extensive “Radio Boredcast” project at AV Festival Newcastle, UK.
Recommended by Paris based sound artist Dinahbird
Don’t Think About The White Polar Bear: Season 3, Ep 1 of The Family Tree
Dave Pickering (2019)
Produced by David Pickering & Adam Thwaite (UK 2019)
54 min
When podcast producer Dave Pickering is approached by his dad with a mystery from the life of a long-forgotten friend, he decides to investigate it in the only way he knows how: by having conversations. Mark Sullivan, who went missing 15 years ago, has been found dead. His body still has the arm he should have lost in a car accident and seems to have died eight years before he disappeared.
Here we are deep into the series but it’s a good place to suspend disbelief and get a taste for this bizarre story and to meet some of the characters. This should peak your curiosity to go back to the beginning where Dave speaks to his dad and brother and decides to investigate this mystery.