Radio Atlas

Distances, dreams and desires – a daughter seeks to understand her father. By Omara Poppe (2024) ‘May I tell you a story?’  ‘The story may come.’  MOYO is an intimate audio documentary set in a craft brewery on the coast of Togo. The work follows a daughter’s month-long visit to her father, who returned to his … Continue reading "MOYO"

A place where men drink and women dream. By Viktoras Jakovlevas for LRT (2008) After the school was closed, the shop became the most important public space in the village of Varputėnai, Lithuania. There is a public library, and a priest comes on Sundays to hold a church service, but the shop is a place … Continue reading "The Shop"

Meaning emerges from a soundscape of bells By Maria Margaronis (2026) For centuries, great flocks of sheep and goats grazed the mountains of Greece and the Balkans. Some herders were completely nomadic, travelling with their whole household between grazing grounds. Now very few shepherds make the traditional journey to the high pastures each spring and … Continue reading "Everything Has Its...

By Mette Post Riggelsen (2026) A sonic crown of sonnets about that horrible moment, when you mother dies and becomes particles of light without a word. A poetic tribute to mothers, to life and to the Danish poet Inger Christensen. First created for the HearSay festival in 2026 where this feature won the Art prize. … Continue reading "Has He Been Standing There All Along?"

An experimental Scots translation of ‘Catullus 63’ tells the story of a young athlete driven mad by the Mother Goddess, driven to become an orgiastic priestess in the wild mountain woods, in a cacophonous reimagining of the Latin classic as a trans hymn to the Caledonian Forest. By Harry Josephine Giles and Callie Rose Petal … Continue reading "Attis in Caledon"

How do you make a life or death decision? By Luis Trelles for Radio Ambulante (2018) In Puerto Rico in 2012, a jury faces the possibility of sentencing someone to the death penalty – nearly a century after its abolition in 1929. Whilst the constitution of Puerto Rico has expressly banned the death penalty since … Continue reading "Juror No. 10"

Radio Atlas turned ten years old this year! To celebrate, Sheffield DocFest are hosting a special birthday screening this Thursday evening (11th June) at 6pm. Come and join us to listen to subtitled audio! Book a ticket here. This podcast originally aired on Radiotopia’s Selects. It’s a home for inventive, weird, excellent audio from the … Continue reading "10 Years of Radio Atla...

What holds everyday life together after separating? By Stefanie Müller-Frank (2026) Alone at home with her daughters, Stefanie found herself living in a parallel universe made of new rules, long nights and polar bears who never have to cry. Just the Three of Us (Nur wir drei) received the Human Award at this year’s HearSay Festival. Stefanie Müller-Frank is a German journalist living in Base...

Parenting in a burning world By Åsa Secher (2026) It’s surreal becoming a mother when the world is on fire. To have your world become smaller, as you focus on all the little things, like teaching a small child to eat or to talk, knowing that the world outside of this little bubble is falling … Continue reading "Monday"

How should the ones left behind talk to those who have died? By Leo Rehnfeldt (2026) First created for the HearSay festival in 2026, this piece forms part of a larger project on posthumous conversation. Linda is the name of the piece’s protagonist – Linda Körner Fernando. It is also a Swedish verb meaning to … Continue reading "Linda"

“Spaciada sa Bregungia (No More Shame) is in Sardinian, or rather, in the Sardinian I have. Which is not the same thing…”  By M. Cristina Marras (2026) “I didn’t grow up speaking Sardinian. My parents made a choice, a rational one, from where they stood. They believed that Italian was the language of the future, of education, of opportunity. That raising their …...

The body changes the horizon. By Eva De Groote and Ruben Nachtergaele (2026) Eva De Groote explores keeping her balance amidst an unfolding diagnosis. The Issue was the winner of one of the two Overall Audio prizes at HearSay International Sound Arts Festival 2026 Ruben Nachtergaele is a sound artist, Eva De Groote is a … Continue reading "The Issue"

We breathe every second of our lives without thinking about it. And yet it is so difficult to remember. By Judith Geffert for THE ECCO (2025) 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 academia. They … Continue reading "Breathing Exercise"

A tender and complex family portrait, as a sister traces the fractures left by her brother’s experiences with mental illness. By Rislane Hakym (2024) Originally from northern France, Rislane Hakym places social issues at the heart of her practice. She has been a jury member at international festivals. With a background in audiovisual and journalism, … Continue reading "Schizophonies"

Seasons shift, as the songs of distant whales are swallowed by the fog. Henriette Rasmussen explores the brittle and tender edges of masculinity in her community. By Henriette Rasmussen for RANA / Radiophonic Narration (2009) Born in 1950, Henriette Rasmussen lived in Nuuk, Greenland. She worked at KNR (Greenlandic Broadcasting Corporation) in the 1970’s before … Continue reading "A Circle o...

Life and death at the Plitvice Lakes. By Čedo Prica, Zvonimir Bajsić and Maksim Jurjević for Radio Zagreb (1975) “What I do is writing with a microphone. Our lexicon is the sound material we shape. We use speech, not language. All these terms: documentary radio drama, radio feature, acoustic film—are not quite appropriate. It is, … Continue reading "Old Lika Pathetic Symphony"

Memories entangle with the trees as we wander into the forest By Marta Medvešek for Radio Slovenija (2023) Rest, peace and silence, but also sawing, creaking and crying; an elegant spruce and a beech with dense rustling leaves; harsh winters and a deer roaring in the moonlight. In the conflicting juxtaposition of safety and danger, … Continue reading "Forest Is"

Documentary recordings of laughter musically interweave in this imagined scene By Stéphane Borrel (2024) Les Anciens (The Elders) is part of a larger electroacoustic (acousmatic) work by Stéphane Borrel called Laughing Tonalities. The work uses as its essential sound material the laughter from recordings of three hundred invited participants. Stéphane writes, “The musical writing – &#8...

Dreamscapes submerged in rising water By Yevhenii Poliakov (2025) Dreams calm down our worries. We overcome extreme experiences with the flood of feelings that our mind reworks each night. During the first months of the full-scale Russian invasion, water flowed through Ukrainian dreams. Recurring rains, floods and images of the seaside from the audio archive … Continue reading "Worried Water...

A conversation grows from a chance encounter on a train By Mattias Wallenius (2024) “I met Lisa on a train in the summer of 2023. She sat down next to me and introduced herself (which is very uncommon on a public train in Sweden (and probably many places in the world)). I was going to … Continue reading "He Called Me His Typhoon"

A tender love story, lived in private, across five decades. By Rūta Dambravaitė and Inga Janiulytė-Temporin for LRT (2024) Vitalius and Albinas have been together for 52 years. As they grow old and Albinas’ memory slowly fades, Vitalius is tired of hiding and decides to tell their life story publicly for the first time. This … Continue reading "Coming Out"

A child plays in the snow By Joyce de Badts (2025) On a cold January day, Tirza conjures a snow ghost. Joyce de Badts is a teacher and radio producer based in Antwerp, Belgium

Lost loved ones gather at the dinner table By Daniel Semo (2024) Karina Alanís Martínez is a cocinera tradicional (traditional cook) from the state of Michoacán in Mexico. Traditional cooks are respected members of their regional communities entrusted with passing down the culinary heritage of the local cuisine. In this documentary fragment, Karina reflects on cooking … Continue reading "Nig...

A granddaughter and grandmother talk across time. By Qing Hu (2024) ‘Have you eaten?’ is a common Chinese greeting, like asking ‘how are you?’ in English. In this short feature, Qing Hu uses the phrase to redraw a line of connection between her current home in New York and her grandmother. Qing Hu is an audio … Continue reading "Have You Eaten?"

The worlds of a vermin exterminator in Paris, young people living in the city and a disturbing public declaration from a police union blur together. By Ka-Young Park and Dimitris Roidis (2023) Nuisibles (Pests) is a sonic study in the process of dehumanisation. Touching on themes of police violence and systemic racism. Created by Ka-Young … Continue reading "Nuisibles"