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XMTR Radio Hour #41: Sounding Colossus
Social Broadcasts (UK 2026)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2026)
67 min / Episode 41 of 41
This XMTR Radio Hour is a little different. Lucia speaks to Garry Hunter the director of arts and heritage organisation Fitzrovia Noir - and composer/violinist Jack Campbell about a new commission from the educational foundation that has grown out of the Tommy Flowers community pub in Poplar, East London. The pub’s namesake Tommy Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic computer, to help decipher the encrypted messages sent by the German High Command during WW2. 23-year-old composer and musician Jack M.Campbell has recently written and extensively performed a piece inspired by Alan Turing’s Bombe. With a bursary from TFF, he has now composed a score responding to Colossus, the computer built by Tommy Flowers to greatly expedite the reading of Lorenz traffic. The code was cracked by mathematician Bill Tutte, who, after the war, went on to teach at two universities in Canada, Jack’s home country. Following the conversation about outsiders, music, algorithms and maths, is an exclusive rendition of this composition: ‘Colossus’ by Jack Campbell.
XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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Living Histories - 'Believed and Understood'
Charlotte Petts & Micheal Umney (UK 2026)
Charlotte Petts & Micheal Umney (UK 2026)
26 min
Living Histories shares the unheard oral histories of people who have used or worked in NHS mental health services in Sussex from the closure of the asylums in the 1980's, up to and including the Covid-19 pandemic. Through a series of podcasts, created using clips from these oral histories, we explored the common themes threaded through these real-life stories.
This episode - For people with mental health problems, the right diagnosis and treatment can be transformative, making sense of life and its challenges and building hope for the future. Believed and Understood explores the power diagnosis can hold and the impact it has on recovery.
Produced by Charlotte Petts and Michael Umney.
Project by Heads On Charity supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, NHS Charities Together and Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
Riley In The Closet
Hannah Frances Johansson (US 2025)
Hannah Johansson (US 2026)
11 min
This is a story about the time Hannah’s friend Riley, who is trans, lived in their closet for two weeks. Outside, it was 70 degrees and sunny, a true California endless summer. But in the closet, it was fall. They played jazz, sipped tea, and left only at night to eat a loaf of bread. Listen like you are in the closet with Riley, as they describe their fall-themed teenage breakdown, inspired by Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. Sometimes, identity can only be formed in isolation.
Produced by Hannah Frances Johansson
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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