Transmissions
Bitter/Sweet Natasha’s Sunday Dinners
Natasha Miller (UK 2023)
Natasha Miller (UK 2023)
11 min
Bitter/Sweet, is a podcast that explores the relationship between food and our deepest memories. In each episode guests share a profound moment in their lives, involving an evocative meal and share why it was so meaningful for them.
Sunday dinners have taken on a new meaning for Natasha Miller, the host of Bitter/Sweet. In this episode we learn why that is and what inspired Natasha to explore the relationship between food and memories. And, why loss has given her quest new purpose.
Hosted and produced by Natasha Miller
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Where are you going?
Catherine Carr (UK 2023)
Catherine Carr (UK 2023)
15 min Episode 1 of 4
Catherine Carr interrupts people as they go about their everyday lives and asks simply: “Where are you going?” The conversations that follow are always unpredictable: sometimes funny, sometimes heart-breaking, silly, romantic or occasionally downright ‘stop-you-in-your-tracks’ surprising.
Recorded and Presented by Catherine Carr
Editor: Jo Rowntree
Sound: Dan King
Produced by Loftus Media
Eggblood
Mouth In Foot (UK 2020)
Mouth In Foot (UK 2020)
39 min
Teetering on a tripwire between the Priest and the Para-Medicinal Urinal, this work of recorded material plundered between 2018/20, composed September(21) during a locked in covid syndrome. Incorporating inter personal archive spanning 25 years of ripped and clipped sounds, real-time recordings, covert mobile conversations and live synth.
This audio work focuses on memory, nostalgia, psychosis, faith and satire, pushing and pulling the process of sampling, collage, cutup techniques and repetition into shattered fragments from some knackered audio pen-womb-man-ship shape shift...
Originally broadcast on Radiophrenia 2020
Produced by Mouth In Foot
Every Voice: The Magic Flute: From Morehouse … to the opera house with Monostatos
David Norville + Terrance McKnight (US 2023)
David Norville + Terrance McKnight (US 2023)
22min Episode 1 of 5
Every Voice spotlights the vibrant stories and perspectives that reflect the whole of the American musical experience. There are many different kinds of classical music, depending on where you are in the world. While this music typically preserves the traditions of a given society, classical music in America remains wedded to its Western European roots. This show explores why — and what America’s classical music really sounds like. Through interviews, historical investigation, and personal storytelling, Terrance McKnight unearths the hidden voices that have been shaping our musical traditions all along. This debut season examines the representation of Blackness in opera. While character flaws are universal, stereotypes often fall along racial lines. We look at the loneliness, jealousy, self-loathing, and cultural appropriation associated with African characters in 18th and 19th century operas by Mozart and Verdi, introducing the African-American personalities found in the operas of Atlanta-based composer Dr. Sharon Willis.
Hosted by Terrance McKnight
Produced by David Norville
Contributing Strategic Advisor Tony Phillips
The Juggler
Bridey Addison-Child (UK 2023)
Bridey Addison-Child (UK 2023)
16 min
A sonic meditation on juggling. There is of course the physical act of throwing balls (and not stones) in the air but of course juggling contains so many other metaphores for how we manage different aspects of our lives.
This piece was originally performed live onstage as part of an event for In The Dark
This piece was originally performed live onstage as part of an event for In The Dark founded by Nina Garthwaite, and run by Talia Augustidus.
Featuring Lucy "Juggles" Eden
Sound designed by Bridey Addison-Child
Violin by Alexander Tay
CoMute 6
Phaune Radio (FR 2023)
Phaune Radio (FR 2023)
18 min
Daydreams are easier than it steams between two stops, letting ideas grow between the lines, keeping track.
Glide happily from station derailing time and then getting back on track.
From platform to platform, we glide through these daydreams following a thread thanks to a cat helping to choose the right path. Have you forgotten anything?
Listening with headphones recommended • Binaural recordings
Produced by Phaune Radio
Featuring: Gaston Bachelard.
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Class Divide
Curtis James (UK 2023)
Curtis James (UK 2023)
30 min Episode 1 of 4
This series follows the lives of a family, one daughter and three sons from Whitehawk, whose stories will highlight what a massive difference a good education can make to life chances. Across the series families, teachers and education experts talk about the roots of the UK's education, segregation and subsequent attainment gap and why it’s so bad in places like Brighton and Hove.
Writer and presenter of the series Curtis James says: “I grew up in East Brighton and this podcast series has been in the making since I made my first radio programme in 1990. The stories I’ll be sharing are rarely told by people like us, and it’s important for people to understand where the issues are, so the city can begin to make things fairer. The ideal outcome from this series is that the good people of Brighton get together, work together, to ensure every child gets the support they need to learn and thrive. It’s going to take the whole city to support the education of all of its children.”
Produced and Hosted by Curtis James
Dwelling: Squats, protest and Olive Morris
Marnie Woodmeade (UK 2023)
Marnie Woodmeade (UK 2023)
30min Episode 1 of 5
As the housing crisis deepens, home is becoming increasingly difficult to find. Join host Marnie Woodmeade as we speak to the people seeking alternatives. From abandoned buildings to lost rivers, they redefine what a home can be. But as restrictions on alternative lifestyles tighten, how can they protect their sanctuaries, sites of resistance and dwelling?
Squats have been demonised by the media, but how have empty buildings supported the feminist, environmental and black power movement?
Hosted and produced by: Marnie Woodmeade
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XMTR Radio Hour Ep22 : Soundworlds with Pat Eakin Young
Social Broadcasts (UK 2023)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2023)
60 min / Episode 22 of 22
This Transmitter Radio Hour explores the sonic theatre of Soundworlds - in conversation with director Patrick Eakin Young. The award winning Soundworlds is an audio stage for diverse stories where musicians, writers, theatre makers and sound artists collaborate to create a unique and immersive series of musical theatre for the ears.
Extracts played are from:
1. Remnants Part 1
A three-part auditory excavation, unearthing the songs and stories of love and loss, buried beneath the soil of post-war Bosnia.
Featuring: Courtney Angela Brkic
Composition: Christian Mason, Shelley Parker
2. Town is by the Sea
An audio picture book conjuring impressions from a childhood spent in the coastal mining communities of Nova Scotia
Music composed and performed by Anna Rheingans
Text by Joanne Schwartz, adapted from her 2017 book with illustrator Sydney Smith
3. A Christmas Party
Living-room concert meets domestic drama in an immersive holiday special
Voice and piano: Douglas Dare
Recorded and Edited by Lucia Scazzocchio
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What's Rangoon To You Is Grafton To Me
Russel Guy (AUS 1978)
Russell Guy (AUS 1978)
45 min
What's Rangoon to you is Grafton to me, a psychedelic road journey from Brisbane to Sydney written by Russell Guy and featuring the voices of James Dibble and Russell Guy. The story is a quintessentially Australian gonzo rant, tracing the narrator's twisted journey down the East coast of Australia. He was the perfect hitch-hiker: entertaining but mute in all the right places.
Back in the 1970s, ABC veered off the beaten path with a new experiment: Double J—a youth-oriented radio channel operating on a derelict AM transmitter in a bomb shelter. One of the channel's more live-wire DJs was a surfer-poet called Russell Guy. His crazed, ad-lib breakfast shows broke all the rules of broadcasting. In 1978, Guy decided to see if he could turn a short story about a summer hitch-hiking adventure from Brisbane to Sydney into a radio play. What's Rangoon to You is Grafton to Me ultimately went on to become a cult classic.
Written by Russell Guy
Narrated by James Dibble
Produced by Graham Wyatt