XMTR Radio Hour

The Devil Museum is a one man radio play, the audio diary of a man photographing all three-thousand of the museum’s devil sculptures. (And yes the museum exists, we looked it up)  For a number of reasons, however, the project cannot be completed. As the diary tracks these failings, the peice moves subtly into less tangible subjects such as boredom, isolation and loneliness. Produced by Jacob Dywer...

The Transmitter radio hour showcases the kind of works you will find on xmtr.fm , a sonic storytelling platform dedicated to independent and archive audio. The next hour is dedicated to sounds from the North Yorkshire Coast and more specifically the Wild Eye Project by Invisible Dust. If you miss the sea or just want to enjoy a moment near the water, the next hour features audio postcards from Sca...

This episode has a distinctly European flavour and will be showcasing work from the Italian radio platform Radio Papesse, the Belgian space for sonic creations RadioLa as well something from the prolific Italian multi-media artist Cristina Marras and a short from the Social Broadcast archive. 1. Me My English and all the languages of my life by Anna Raimondo From Radiola.be 2. The Smell of Naptha...

The next hour will be showcasing some audio works featured on xmtr.fm as well as some works produced by Social Broadcasts over the past year. The first piece you’ll hear is from a series of Audio Postcards commissioned for the Wild Eye Project by Invisible Dust in Scarborough who work with artists to explore the environment and climate change. Here are some sounds sent from the North Sea. Produced...

The next hour showcases some winning and shortlisted English language or no language works from the Phonurgia Nova Awards - a celebration of radiophonic creation.  Winner of the Field Recording category Tom Fisher aka Action Pyramid captures the Suffolk countryside with ‘Hoverflies, Reed Pipes, Cockchafers and Bullroearers’, there’s surreal interrogation with 'Daisy Daisy' by Phoebe McIndoe, ‘ Los...

We continue our exploration of the art of conversation with Joy Kahumbu who spent several years coordinating the ‘Compassionate Neighbours’ initiative at St Josephs Hospice in Hackney;  essentially a match-making service connecting mobile with more isolated house-bound members of the community to create regular social interaction. Conversation is at the heart of this initiative, which has since be...

Telling Stories is hosted and produced by Phoebe McIndoe and Redzi Bernard. Listen and subscribe to Telling Stories here The audio storytellers featured where: Arlie Adlington Axel Kacoutié Bea Duncan from ELAN James T Green Ariana Martinez Sarah Geis (Audio Playground)  Transmitter is hosted and produced by Lucia Scazzocchio from Social Broadcasts. 

In this episode we explore what it means to escape; From the  separation caused by Covid with a A Lockdown Love Letter from a daughter to her mother, read by poet and author Julieann Campbell in Derry. Produced by Peter Curran at The Foghorn Company as an Audio Content Fund commission for community radio stations across Northern Ireland.  From one country to another with an episode from ' Foreign...

This episode takes a break from the conversation theme and introduces a new audio experiment: LEvitAtion. An immersive radiophonic mix of music, found sounds, field recordings and original recordings. The theme is ‘Blackout’ as we’ve all been grappling around in the dark somewhat recently and hopefully there is a glimmer of light on the horizon.  This programme is the result of two alter egos coll...

In the next few episodes Lucia Scazzocchio from Social Broadcasts explores 'the art of conversation'. As we become more connected and paradoxically more isolated, face to face conversation is increasingly rare and coveted. Especially now. This episode explores the role of conversation in faith leadership and practice with Claire MacDonald; artist, writer and Unitarian Minister at Lewisham Unity ....

Cathy Fitzgerald has been making audio documentaries, installations and audio tours for a decade now and she has a knack of turning the everyday into moments of wonder. This is what happens when you get two fiercely independent slightly misfit radio makers in a room. Cathy runs workshops in audio magic at her school Strange & Charmed This episode includes audio clips from: Life on Lockdown (Ca...

In the next few episodes Lucia Scazzocchio from Social Broadcasts explores 'the art of conversation'. As we become more connected and paradoxically more isolated, face to face conversation is increasingly rare and coveted. Especially now! Radio and increasingly podcasting provide the perfect medium for more exploratory long-form conversations to occur, providing the space and the context often mis...

The next few episodes will be dedicated to the art of conversation. As we become more connected and paradoxically more isolated, face to face conversation is increasingly rare and coveted. Radio and increasingly podcasting provide the perfect medium for more exploratory long-form conversations to occur, providing the space and the context often missing in the everyday. We begin this season with an...

Radio has been, since its introduction into the family home, or as an accompaniment on long car journeys and now through the ear buds of a smart phone, the perfect medium for the spinning of yarns. We begin with a folktale adapted and narrated by Sarah-Lisa Willkinson for The Embers podcast. The Embers collective are a group of story-tellers and musicians who bring stories into a live setting. The...

An hour dedicated to the wonderful world of the Goodwin Sands Radiogram. A part ethnographic, part sound art,  podcast series written and produced by Ben Horner with the announcer performed by Peter Kelly.  Goodwin Sands Radiogram is broadcast from an imaginary shipwreck off the South East coast in Kent where we meet some of the people who inhabit this part of the world. This magical radio experim...

Part 1: An extract from The Art of The Heist from the podcast Undiscovered produced by London based team Message Heard. This investigative piece narrated by Jake Warren and produced by Sandra Ferrari, uncovers why Chinese artefacts have been been disappearing from cultural institutions and museums around the works and are being bought by Chinese billionaire collectors and how the Chinese governmen...

We begin with an extract from Master of The Vessel, episode 2 of The London Compass podcast produced by Joel Cox and Theo Johnson where Nigel Pickford, shipwreck explorer and Mike Catcher, deeps sea diver take us into the murky waters of treasure hunting below the waves. We then surface above water to the coastal town of Withernsea, where writer and Leed’s based artist Samra Mayanja reflects on ch...

In this hour we hear clips from writer and poet Ross Sutherland's podcast Imaginary Advice podcast ( Episode 54: One More Song ) where Ross uses poetry to deal with anxiety and prepares a DJ set for bears. We witness a teenage shooting in the first half of The treachery of sounds from Robert Anderson's podcast Awful Grace or The Tolling of the void bell and we go to Thamesmead in South East London...