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Ten Years of Radio Atlas (Video Podcast Collection)

Society EN ↓ 5 episodes

Note: this collection is all video podcast because it is a celebration of audio subtitles. You'll need to experience it on a platform that supports video files. Radio Atlas is an incredible curatorial force. The works that Radio Atlas has featured over the past ten years represent some of the most ambitious, creative, and sonically singular productions from around the world. None are in English, and they rarely feature linear narratives, or span eight episodes, or include signposting. These are sophisticated works that trust their listeners to take a conceptual leap. Limiting our ears to...

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Everyday Something Disappears by Luc Haekens and Edwin Brys for VRT (1993) Video 11.03.2026 37:22

What remains when we start to disappear? Produced by Luc Haekens and Edwin Brys for VRT (1993) Resounding with music, humour and humanity this feature blends the story of a pianist documenting his own decline and the residents of a care home near the Dutch border of Essen. Musically interweaving reality and fiction we dive into the internal world of people who feel that they are beginning to lose...

The Woman on the Ice by Rikke Houd for Third Ear Video 11.03.2026 55:03

A young woman walks out onto the ice, under a full moon, and disappears. Produced by Rikke Houd for Third Ear (11th March 2014) “In 1932 a young, Danish woman went as the first Danish nurse to the sparsely populated Greenlandic east coast. She trained as a nurse with the sole purpose of going to Greenland, but she didn’t get to live there for a year. One night she went out into the frozen landscap...

The Mechanical Voice by Bert Kommerij for NPO Radio 5 (1998) Video 11.03.2026 6:49

An erotic radio work exploring the mechanics of lust. By Bert Kommerij for NPO Radio 5 (1998) Anonymous voices on a telephone sex line interweave with an audio letter addressed to an ever-changing ‘you’. In a work of intimate audio art from the pre-internet era, Kommerij builds a feature around a text he wrote about a contact ad. First broadcast in the series Radiostories: Human on NPO Radio 5 . B...

The Double by Thomas Andersen Arent and Third Ear Video 11.03.2026 43:28

On a dark night, in a small Danish town, Thomas Andersen has a violent encounter with his double. Produced by Thomas Arent Andersen for Third Ear x Politiken (9th November 2015) The story of two young men who lived in Viborg, a small town in Denmark, both with the same name – Thomas Andersen. They had never met until one night in October, thirteen years ago, when one Thomas Andersen ended up tryi...

Old Lika Pathetic Symphony by Čedo Prica, Zvonimir Bajsić and Maksim Jurjević for Radio Zagreb (1975) Video 11.03.2026 38:21

Original Radio Atlas credits: “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, in fact, radio itself… Documentary radio drama uses the means of the medium itself.” (Zvonimir Bajsić in an interview) Created in collaboration with dr...