Transmissions
The Trees of Saunders Park
Claire Sabel and Alex Lewis (US, 2025)
Claire Sabel and Alex Lewis (US, 2025)
34 min
The Trees of Saunders Park presents stories about trees and why people feel connected to them. It is centered on profiles of residents who have planted individual trees in Saunders Park, the main public green space in the West Powelton neighborhood of Philadelphia, a part of the city that has experienced considerable displacement and gentrification for decades. Though each tree story is unique, the piece explores connecting threads between them: the ethos of DIY planting, neighbors confronting gentrification, connecting to the earth in urban environments, communal joy in spite of neighborhood change and loss..
Written & hosted by Claire Sabel
Produced by Alex Lewis
There Was There Was Not: The Women of Artsakh - Uncovering Roots
Maxim Saakyan (UK 2025)
Maxim Saakyan (UK 2025)
32 min
Linum e, chi linum. There Was There Was Not. This is how Armenians begin their myths and stories, the same saying as "Once Upon a Time."
Filmmaker Emily Mkrtichian spent several years in Artsakh documenting four women building their lives and fighting for their place in society. In this episode we follow two of them in Artsakh. Sose, a judo champion dreaming of the Olympics. Siranush, a politician determined to prove women could lead differently.
Then September 27, 2020 arrived, and the question became: What do you do when your world suddenly disappears?
Produced by Maxim Saakyan
GROW
Cristina Catania Flores (UK, 2024)
Cristina Catania Flores (UK, 2024)
46 min
This audio-documentary wanders through the soundscapes of Sadhana Forest, a reforestation and zero-waste project in Tamil Nadu, India. Weaving interviews with over 20 community members, ‘Grow’ explores compassion, conservation and community living
Produced by Cristina Catania Flores
Music by Cristina Catania Flores
Sound Design by Cristina Catania Flores
Mastered by Ahmed Rezaie
The ECCO #2: Ní Mise É / It Ain't Me (Gaelic & English)
Brian Byrne (IE/ UK, 2025)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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, (CK 2025)
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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