Transmissions
Radio Ballad: Song of a Road (1959)
Ewan McColl, Peggy Seeger, Charles Parker (1959)
Ewan McColl, Peggy Seeger, Charles Parker (UK 1959)
59 min
This new revolutionary format - radio ballad (BBC) conceived by folk musicians Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, and the brilliant radio documentary maker Charles Parker in 1958, combining sound: songs, instrumental music, sound effects, and, most importantly, the recorded voices of those who are the subjects of the documentary. This had never been done before, and still sounds incredibly fresh today.
This Radio Ballad is a musical journey along the M1 as it was being built in the late 50’s.
Producer: Charles Parker
Music: Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger
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Everything, Nothing, Harvey Keitel
Pejk Malinovski (DK/US 2014)
Pejk Malinovski (DK/US 2014)
20 min
Finding inner peace is difficult... especially when you're sitting next to Harvey Keitel. This story was produced by Pejk Malinovski as a Falling Tree production, and originally aired on BBC Radio 3. Featured on the Truth Podcast.
Narrated and Produced by Pejk Malinovski
Selected by guest curator Cristana Marras
This amazing piece by Pejk Malinovski. “Everything, nothing, Harvey Keitel” is a crazy ride inside the head of the author. I love the apparent spontaneity of it all, the understated way of tell the story so that you feel you might as well be in the same room in which Harvey Keitel appears, completely unexpected and out of place. Amusing, compelling, beautifully written. It’s the kind of storytelling that makes me feel like dropping everything I’m doing to go producing something beautiful. :-)
In The Dark: The Everything Is Fine Forecast
Ewan Cameron (UK 2022)
Ewan Cameron (UK 2022)
7 min
The Shipping Forecast but it's you having a panic attack.
Produced and performed by Ewan Cameron as part of an ongoing podcast called Randomly Generated Thought.
Selected as part of a new producers listening event be In The Dark
In The Dark: The Covid Happiness Project
Shrikant Joshi (IN 2021)
Shrikant Joshi (IN 2021)
5 min
The first episode from “The Covid Happiness Project”, a podcast Shrikant made during lockdown. It was an honest attempt to shine a small light in the darkness that was threatening to envelop all of us during the early days of the pandemic.
Written and Produced by: Shrikant Joshi
Music: “Acoustic Breeze” from bensound.com
Selected as part of a new producers listening event be In The Dark
In The Dark: Love is _____ - Love is a Reality Check
Makee Ogbon (UK 2021)
Makee Ogbon (UK 2021)
5 min
This is an episode from the podcast “Love is _____”, an illustrative audio journal detailing a writer’s thoughts and feelings on the experience of love.
Hosted and Produced by Makee Ogbon
Powered by Transmission Roundhouse
Selected as part of a new producers listening event be In The Dark
In The Dark: Surveillance
Derick Armah and Ivan d'Avoine (UK 2021)
Derick Armah + Ivan d'Avoine (UK 2021)
9 min
This audio essay is a young Black man’s observations on hyper-visibility in one of the most surveilled cities in the world.
Produced and written by Derick Armah and Ivan d'Avoine for 'The Hidden Part' on Short Cuts BBC Radio 4.
Selected as part of a new producers listening event be In The Dark
In The Dark - Di Major
D Peterschmidt (US 2022)
D Peterschmidt (US 2020)
5 min
An abstract take on the traditional public radio two-way format, D explores the relevance of names.
Produced by D Peterschmidt as part of Union Doc’s “Augmented Audio Realities”
Selected as part of a new producers listening event be In The Dark
In The Dark: So Good So Milo
Ben James (US 2022)
Ben James (US 2022)
10min
Mac and Claudia lived with their parrot Milo for 25 years. The bird talked and whistled to them all day. Then, one day last spring…
Produced by Ben James.
Original music composed and performed by Evan Arntzen.
Selected as part of a new producers listening event be In The Dark
In The Dark: The Brown Student’s Fear
Salman Ahad Khan (US 2021)
Salman Ahad Khan (US 2021)
4 min
This was a story produced in 24 hours for the 2021 KCRW Radio Race and features three delightful perspectives on bidets.
Produced and narrated by Salman Ahad Khan
Selected as part of a new producers listening event be In The Dark
In The Dark: Static Winter - 83 and The Visitation
Pete Hazell (UK 2021)
Pete Hazell (UK 2021)
10 min
Somewhere in a remote outpost, amongst foul weather and radio static, a lone operator scans the bleak signals and reports his findings to HQ.
But why isn't HQ responding?
Is something trying to visit the outpost?
And Who's Leonard?