Author: Radio Atlas

Price of Secrecy is a fictionalised podcast series that addresses some of the legal, social, cultural and familial constraints that contribute to the silence around the issue of child sexual abuse in Iran. At the heart of the series is the question – ‘why, as members of society, are we failing to listen to the victims of child sexual abuse?’. A question that takes the responsibility of breaking the silence away from the victim and introduces it as a social responsibility.

It’s normally available via the messaging app Telegram – a popular home for podcasts in Iran: https://t.me/hazinehrazdaripodcast

Zoha Zokaei is an Anglo-Iranian artist, academic and PhD researcher currently living and working in London. She holds an MFA from Goldsmiths College, University of London and is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Sussex where she was awarded a CHASE scholarship. Her research interests include the following areas: ethics of representation (particularly representing the pain of the other), decentring and problematizing voice, practice as research, storytelling for social change and tactical media.

Price of Secrecy was supported by CHASE (Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England). You can find further episodes and information at the project website.

Recorded in the pre-internet dating days, Lotta Erikson searches for a partner through telephone contact agencies.

Lotta Erikson has been a freelance for the Swedish radio (SR) and Swedish national television (SVT) in various forms since 1992, making around 15 radio documentaries and several TV-documentaries. Her productions have been presented at festivals and have won awards. In recent years she has written scripts for both feature films and TV-series, including the TV series The Hunt for a Killer, for SVT-drama with director Mikael Marcimain. Lotta Erikson has also made several sound art installations, written stage plays, radio dramas and a book about the human voice “The Alphabet of the Voice”.

Translation by Klara Erikson

According to numerous statistics, Czechs are a nation of dog-lovers. On average, there is a dog in every second household in the Czech Republic, resulting in the most hounds per capita in all of Europe.

In Eva’s house there’s Tonča. Tonča is Eva’s French Bulldog who lives with her and her husband in Prague’s Vinohrady district. She wants to sleep with them in their bedroom so badly that she stakes her claim by barking at their bedroom door and leaving little puddles of protest. Eva’s husband, however, is strongly against it. What do you when you have a dog at home with separation anxiety?

‘Man: A Dog’s Best Friend’ was a runner up for Best Documentary at the Prix Bohemia (2019)

Editor: Brit Jensen

Sound: Jiří Slavičínský

Director, screenwriter, and producer Eva Lammelová (1986) studied sociology and andragogy at Palacký University in Olomouc, as well as film and theater science. She filmed an episode of the series Nedej se! for Czech Television entitled Free Food For All (Ji.hlava IDFF 2015) and the documentary AsexuaLOVE (2018).

Sometimes immigrants want to stay super connected to their home countries because they feel that connection slipping away. And well, they can go overboard. At least, that’s what Eduardo Bolioli noticed.

This story was produced by Martina Castro as part of an audio documentary series she made with her class at the University of Montevideo for her 2015 Fulbright grant. The series, called ‘Los Retornados’, features first-person stories from Uruguayans who had left their country to seek better opportunities and who ended up returning – many as part of a wave of reverse migration triggered by the worldwide financial crisis in 2009. The series was also turned into an audio exhibit at the Museum of Migration in Montevideo, Uruguay where it is currently being integrated into the museum’s permanent collection.

Martina Castro is the founder and CEO of Adonde Media, a globally-minded podcast production company based in Brooklyn, New York.

Over the past fifteen years, Martina has produced and edited award-winning audio content in both the U.S. and Latin America. She has worked at NPR, KALW-FM in San Francisco, CA, and NPR’s Radio Ambulante, a Spanish-language narrative journalism podcast she co-founded in 2011. She is a frequent speaker and workshop leader on the art of narrative radio storytelling. Martina launched Adonde Media in 2017 and has worked with clients such as TED, Duolingo, NPR, and Vice News to create podcasts that aim to bring new audiences to the medium.

Mie Tast always knew she wanted a baby. Finding herself at age 34 and still not a mother, there is one question she can’t get off her mind – how long does she dare to wait?

Mie Tast is a Danish journalist. With experience in news reporting and live-tv production, she is now teaching tv and radio at a Folk High School.

Two Lines is the winner of the 2019 Danish Shortdox competition.

‘A Salad Spinner’s Song’ won the ‘Create’ and ‘Create GanBéarla’ awards at the 2019 HearSay International Audio Arts Festival.

Beginning the project in 2016, this is the first chapter of an ‘audio-album’ for Frederik capturing sonic pictures from his childhood.

Johanna Fricke is an audio documentary maker, oral historian and social-anthropologist. Based in Leipzig, she works for the German public radio as a freelance author/producer.

The Box (A Caixa) was shortlisted for both the ‘Create’ and ‘Create GanBéarla’ awards at the 2019 HearSay International Audio Arts Festival.

Sofia Saldanha is an award winning audio producer. She started her radio adventure in Portugal at Rádio Universitária do Minho, has a masters degree in Radio and is a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Sofia is part of In The Dark, a non-profit organization based in London, that presents audio documentaries from around the world to live audiences. In 2018 she started In The Dark Lisboa. Sofia is the author of a documentary series that tells the story of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa.

Helene talks about growing up with a mother that never really grew up herself.

Originally produced for the Plantrekkers podcast, this shortened version was made for the HearSay International Audio Arts Festival where it won the 2019 ‘Celebrate GanBéarla’ award.

Interview by Joyce de Badts, sound design by Wederik de Backer, music by Tim Liebaert.

A tragic accident tears a mother and wife from her family. Twenty years later, two sisters speak for the first time about the loss of their mother.

Time to Talk was shortlisted for the HearSay International Audio Arts Festival ‘Create’ and ‘GanBéarla’ awards in 2019.

Music: ‘Rosenkind’ by Favne

Miriam Arndts is a German-Danish journalist. She lives in Copenhagen where she writes and produces reports, in-depth background stories, radio documentaries and features. She loves to meet quirky people and tell intimate stories.

Aaji (Grandma) is in her 90s, proficient in English but more comfortable in Marathi, and hard-of-hearing. Mithu is in her 30s, okay at Marathi (but speaks in a stilted, error-filled, and somewhat childlike way common to many second-generation immigrants), and heartbroken. The piece explores how bearing witness to each other in a family context can be hard and fraught, even when it might be worth it.

ROW-cub won the Fiction Award at the 2019 HearSay International Audio Arts Festival.

Neena Pathak is an audio producer based in NYC. She currently produces the Still Processing podcast at The New York Times.