Transmissions
Uncovering Roots: Palestinians in Paraguay
Maxim Saakyan (UK 2026)
Maxim Saakyan (UK 2026)
26 min, Part 1 of 4
Palestinians in Paraguay is a four-part investigative audio documentary uncovering Israel's secret 1969 Cabinet decision to transfer 60,000 Palestinians from Gaza to Paraguay.
Drawing on declassified government records, sworn testimonies buried in Paraguay's Archive of Terror, and the exclusive account of the only living deportee willing to speak publicly, the series pieces together a story that was never meant to be told. It follows the paper trail from Gaza to Asunción. Through a covert travel agency, a shooting at the Israeli embassy, and a cover-up that lasted decades, and asks what it means that history is repeating itself today.
Produced by Produced by Maxim Saakyan, Nada El Kouny and Nadeen Shaker
Dreaming in Orange
Ashrita Achar (IN, 2025)
Ashrita Achar (IN, 2025)
3 min
“Dreaming on antidepressants are... weird. The line between dreaming and memory is blurred, and before I can make sense of which is which, I’m waking up. This piece is one such dream I had recently. Actually, no. It did happen for real. … I think.”
Produced by Ashrita Achar
Poets on the Radio
Dennis Gaens (NL 2026)
Dennis Gaens (NL 2026)
27 min
Poets on the radio is an audio-essay exploring the conncections between poetry and radio - historical, contemporary and speculative. It draws on various historical works and on interviews with radio producers (and poets) Sean Cole, Ross Sutherland and Pejk Malinovski to map where radio becomes poetry. In times where celebrity chatcasts and AI generated shows are crowding the podcast charts, it is also a plea for more sound forward, experimental and borderless radio storytelling. It ends on the belief that radio can be a meeting place for all kinds of imagination, a door to an expanded consciousness.
Produced by Dennis Gaens
Edited by Femke Zwiep & Ka(a)te Dejonckheere
Fly Safe, Mom
Milena Soci (IT/US, 2026)
Milena Soci (IT/US, 2026)
5 min
A journey through the personal growth of a daughter as a young woman and the echoes of a mother’s past lives, once young herself, between the constraints of the Castro dictatorship and the longing for a better future.
Produced and Edited by Milena Soci
Low Vines - Pulled Down In Peru
Petra Barran, Lucia Scazzocchio, Lina Prestwood (UK 2024)
Petra Barran, Lucia Scazzocchio, Lina Prestwood (UK 2024)
45 min
Lowlines is a sonic scrapbook and a passport to roam. Following one woman’s pull to tune into the pulse of place - befriending strangers along the way. Feeling pranged out by the London business hustle, food entrepreneur Petra Barran brought an audio recorder and set off with no itinerary, guided simply by a hunger to get lower and closer to the ground. The series is a holiday for the ears, taking us to the heartbeat of New Orleans, the low-slTw
Two weeks at a plant medicine centre in the Peruvian Amazon - Petra thought this would be a good thorough deep dive and that I might get wiser and closer to the plants, but she soon discovers that two weeks is nothing and that she knows nothing. Everything at Aya Madre is a challenge to what you think you understand and who you think you are. An assault on the senses, a take-down of the ego, an all-out reckoning with not even the release of a firm conclusion.
This final episode of the first season of Lowlines is the anti-conclusion episode. Give it up to the twisting, knotted vines and the soaring, deafening jungle chorus. Just go with it. Petra tried to…!ung wetlands of South Louisiana, the slow gyrations of the Amtrak to Tucson. Down to the brittle rasp of the Sonoran desert, the rich, volcanic soil of Mexico City’s Aztec allotments and further, to the soaring jungle chorus of the Peruvian Amazon.
Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio of Social Broadcasts,
Executive-Produced by Lina Prestwood of Scenery Studios
Mixing & Mastering: Jobina Tinnemans
Music by Hannah Marshall and icoros sung by Maestra Estela, Maestra Yaca, Maestro Nestor and Maestro Daniel
Instrumental Romance
Kim David Bots (NL 2025)
Kim David Bots (NL 2025)
45 min
In 2023, while walking with his dog friend Miemel, Kim found a CD in the river Maas near Maastricht. The CD was clearly unplayable, but its title still readable; Instrumental Romance. It felt like a question from a not so distant past. What is romance as an instrument? Romance instrumentalized? At the same time he was experimenting with text to speech voices and recognized something that you could call an instrumentalized form of romance. These voices 'work' because they use pauses, timbres and intonation your ear recognizes as human. At the same time they can’t convince completely. In them exists a sort of auditory uncanny valley. From the idea of the uncanny and romantic in sound/music/story he started experimenting and writing and out of it came 'Instrumental Romance’. It consists of a chain of 11 narrative, musical vignettes (some more narrative then others).
Produced and composed by Kim David Bots
XMTR Radio Hour #40: Shorts 2025
Social Broadcasts (UK 2026)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 202)
60 min / Episode 40 of 40
This XMTR Radio Hour is a compilation of short audio works that have been submitted to xmtr.fm over the past year. XMTR is an online portal championing and showcasing sonic storytelling in its many forms and genres. These short audio works represent the variety and scope of audio craft from both new and more seasoned audio makers from all over the world. No theme, just interesting uses of sound.
Works featured:
The Box by Oliver Morris
Slag Speaks by Emily Candela
Echo Charmer by Xelis Del Toro
Live or Dye by MariaConterno
Offleash by Terry Halbert
Are We Only Dreaming by Lily Sloan and Zara Zimbardo
1001 Stabs by Fari Al Meghari and Lina Prestwood
The Well, The Bay, The Sea by Suzi Lamb
The Graves in the Ocean Are Burning by Per Wilhelm Wahlroos.
XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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Finding The Extraordinary in the Ordinary
Patrick McNameeKing (US 2025)
Patrick McNameeKing (US 2025)
3 min
Laurie Gordon MacKenzie began teaching social studies in Concord New Hampshire in 1987 --the year after the Challenger Shuttle Disaster when Concord High teacher Christa McAuliffe was lost. One of the courses that Laurie started teaching that year was American Women's History, which was a course developed and taught by McAuliffe. As part of New Hampshire Public Radio's series ""Remembering Christa" Laurie Gordon MacKenzie reflects on teaching that class, and the lessons we can still learn from Christa McAuliffe.
Produced by Patrick McNameeKing
Music from Epidemic Sound
39 Alpha, 39 Bravo - The Sound Of Detention’s Economies
Earrational Measures (IT 2025)
Earrational Measures (IT 2025)
10 min
9 Alpha, 39 Bravo tells the story of profit and exploitation within a specific immigration removal centre throughout 1 day, through data sonification.
It is an uncanny journey through the 24 hours of Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre (near Oxford, UK) in 2016, from the perspective of Pilo Moreno, the co-producer of this track and expert by experience. Pilo guides the listeners through a whole day in Campsfield House, retracing a generic day, a recurring and repeating sequence throughout the 5 months he spent there.
In the background, and as part of the track’s rhythmical backbone, you will hear how much three different characters earned in one day back in 2016: the director of the private corporation managing the removal Centre, the custody officer working in the facility, and a detainee who is employed by the centre for menial duties. All the sounds associated with the incomes of these three social actors were chosen by Pilo.
Through the juxtaposition of data-sonification, haunting sounds and first account narration, the listeners delve into the brutal economies of detention - characterised by extreme exploitation built on processes of dehumanisation which are woven into the daily practices and restrictions of UK Immigration Removal Centres.
The title - "39 Alpha, 39 Bravo"- is an explicit reference to the numbers of the bed Pilo and his cell mate were called by during their time in detention.
Produced by Anna De Mutiis
Music by Pilo Moreno,, Arturo Moreno and Anna De Mutiis:
What Would Sophie Calle Do?
Marcia Sandee (NL 2026)
Marcia Sandee (NL 2025)
2 min
Marcia got a letter and made it her own. Inspired by the work 'take care of yourself' by artist Sophie Calle
Produced by Marcia Sandee
Music by Camiel Jansen,
Sundd design by Marcia Sandee