RadioActive: On Water - Liquidation

Meira Asher (IL/IRE  2024)

57 min

RadioActive - on Water is a six episode podcast series, exploring the interactions between transmission, sound, activism and water. Each episode is created by a different artist/group of artists who engage with water politics and the politics of listening through the medium of radio. ‘Liquidation’ by Meira Asher interrogates the politically engineered water crisis in the Occupied Palestinian Jordan Valley where Israel deliberately and strategically deprives Palestinian shepherd communities of access to water.

There is currently a structural water crisis in the Palestinian Occupied Jordan Valley. Not a climate or geographical water crisis, a deliberate socially and politically engineered crisis. Israel, since it invaded the West Bank in 1967, controls every public aspect of civilian life in the Jordan Valley. Israel administers two populations, the Israeli settlers and the indigenous Palestinian residents. Israel deliberately and strategically deprives Palestinian farming communities of access to fresh, clean and reliable water supplies, water that is needed for crops and herds, as well as for the Palestinian farmers and herders.

This can mean either not permitting them to be connected to municipal water supplies, despite the Israeli settlers having such access. It also entails not permitting Palestinian people to sink new wells on their own land, and blocking their access to existing wells and springs, either by fencing off the water source or destroying pipes bringing the water to the herders and farmers. The end result is frequently that either the farmers have to pay extortionate prices to purchase water from the Palestinian authority, or if they cannot afford this option they are forced to abandon their land and way of life.

Featuring the water truck driver, co-activists Natasha and Nitsan, shepherds community of Khalet Makhul, shepherd ‘W’, shepherds community of Hirbet Samra and Aref Daragmah.

English Transcript

Producer - Meira Asher
Translation from Arabic: Laila Abd El-Razaq
Introductory text: Liam Evans
Series - Co-curated by Stephen Shiell & Meira Asher, produced by Meira Asher. Episodes by Blanc Sceol (Stephen Shiell & Hannah White), Lisa Blackmore and Leonel Vásquez, RE-PEAT collective, Margarida Mendes, Carlos Monleon and Nathaniel Mann, and Meira Asher

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Two Dreams of Dolores

Patrick McNameeKing (US 2025)

13 min

On the shores of Lake Atitlan, Dolores, a Mayan healer, shares two dreams that shaped her life.

Producer - Patrick McNameeKing
Music - by Patrick McNameeKing

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Life In Progress

Phoebe McIndoe (UK/DE 2025)

6 min

Life in Progress is the story of Nanou Thassinda and her journey for belonging and acceptance in the UK. After Nanou's dad was murdered in The Democratic Republic of the Congo for publicly speaking-out against the government, Nanou lived as an asylum seeker for 11 years in and around London. In that time, Nanou found hope and empowerment, experimenting with english and the specific regional dialects she encountered as she moved from door to door. This piece is about finding voice, hope and the ever-transitory nature of life.

Produced by Phoebe McIndoe
Voice & Story: Nanou Thassinda.
Executive Editor: Ingo Kottkamp

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The Man At The Top Of The Stairs

Hugo Pierre Martin (US 2025)

41 min

The Diaries of Netovicius the Vampire is a fantasy audio series. It’s an investigation of trauma. What is time to an immortal vampire? What is trauma? How does trauma shape someone so isolated and misunderstood, and how does it shape all of us? How do we recover, and who do we need in our lives to do so?

This is the final episode of the 5th season
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Produced, written and performed by Hugo Pierre Martin

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XMTR Radio Hour Ep34: Radio Commons

Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2025)

60 min / Episode 33 of 33

This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour hands the reins over to film maker and sound artist Ian Nesbitt from Radio Commons, on online platform of sonic interventions seeking to practice solidarity by building collective agency. It is an assembly of audio works structured as an online archipelago. The show features a selection of sound pieces from several of these mythical islands, all connected by the watery themes works from a new sonic island « Counterflows » 

This show brings together exempts of the following works: Thread by Komarine Romdenh-Romluc, Dark Sloshing  by Sonia Levy and Lucy A. Sames, Sonic Rituals by Alifiyah Imani, An Ear to River – Counterflows by Blanc Sceol, Solemn Debt by Akka (Shareeka Helaluddin),  Cockles of my Heart by Breakwater (Youngsook Choi and Taey Iohe). 

1. Thread by Komarine Romdenh-Romluc
https://radiocommons.org/transmission/thread/

2. Dark Sloshing – Traffic into Crayfish by Sonia Levy and Lucy A. Sames
https://radiocommons.org/transmission/dark-sloshing/

3. Sonic Rituals by Alifiyah Imani
https://radiocommons.org/transmission/sonic-rituals/

4. An Ear to River – Counterflows by  Blanc Sceol
https://radiocommons.org/transmission/an-ear-to-river-counterflows/

5. Solemn Debt by Akka (Shareeka Helaluddin)
https://radiocommons.org/transmission/solemn-debt/

6. Cockles of my Heart
Breakwater (Youngsook Choi and Taey Iohe)
https://radiocommons.org/transmission/cockels-of-my-heart/

XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
Hosted by Ian Nestbitt

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I Just Needed Something A Little Bit... More

Charlotte Petts (UK 2024)

Charlotte Petts · I just needed something a little bit... more

12 min

An immersive, multi narrative piece about how it feels to walk a really, really long way. Featuring voices from others who have gone before her, Charlotte tries to find some peace and a sense of her own path on the South West Coast Path.

Created as a final piece for In the Dark audio course. With huge thanks to Nina Garthwaite, Laura Mitchison, Lorna Flutter and Verity de Cala for their ears and input.

Produced by Charlotte Petts

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The Third Place

Katie Stokes (UK/HK 2025)

17 min

Floating Space is a six-part anthology for anyone searching for a place where they truly belong. It’s believed that everyone needs three places: home, work, and a space in between. But in a post-Covid, cost-of-living crisis, and online-centred world, how many of us actually have that third place?

This episode explores what a third place is, and asks why we desperately need one? Unpack the decline of third places, how to identify one, and why the absence of one in your life isn’t your fault.

Created, hosted, produced by  Katie Stokes

Powered by Transmission Roundhouse

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The Baron Hotel - Uncovering Roots

Maxim Saakyan (UK 2025)

30 min

Uncovering Roots is a podcast that investigates stories from the SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa) region. The first mini-series was released back in December 2023, about an Armenian Genocide survivor who became a Hollywood star.

Now, Uncovering Roots returns with the first episode of its new season, beginning in Aleppo, at the doors of one of the most iconic hotels in the Middle East.

The Baron Hotel once hosted kings, spies, archaeologists, and refugees. It was a grand hotel at the crossroads of empire, war, and survival. In this episode, we trace the layered history of the Baron through the voice of Mary Momdjian, whose family built and ran the hotel for generations.

From stories of Armenian refugees during the genocide to Agatha Christie writing her book, the Baron’s past is woven into the fabric of Syria’s modern history. Today, it stands abandoned. A fragile, fading symbol of memory and loss.

Produces by Maxim Saakyan
Sound Design by Maxim Saakyan
Intro Music composed by Olivia Melkonian

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An Asshole Walks Into a Group Meditation

Gabriel Berezin (US 2025)

24 min

Ever been to a group meditation? How did you feel - third eye open with a blissful permagrin? Or did you feel awkward and self conscious?

Tune into the psychedelic talk show that measures gullibility and skepticism using a powerful new scale. This trust spectrum is defined by Larry David, Woody Harrelson, Betty White, Bill Murray and cats (not the musical).

Gabriel Berezin and his co-host (his Inner Voice) discuss the neurological and psychological mental phenomena activated during a Brooklyn, NY meditation retreat.

For example, find out what a Burger King Whopper has to do with our experience of time, and why getting picked last on the dodgeball court explains our cultural divide.

This is Part 1 of a 3-part series.

Written, produced and voiced by Gabriel Berezin
Original music by Santiago Arias-Rozo.

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Gigi Riva and I

M. Cristina Marras (IT 2025)

12 min

A story about childhood, wonder, memories and (a bit) about mischievous revenge. Well, the story is about the soccer player Gigi Riva who became an actual god in the mind of all Sardinians, my fellow people, when he "led the very modest soccer team of Cagliari to win the Serie A championship in the 1969-70 season." All I can tell you is to advise you that this is not a story about sport, but I’d rather not spoil the plot as I am certain it will surprise and enchant, if you have 12 minute to spare.

Produced by M. Cristina Marras

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