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.
“We have life in our imaginations…”
Exploring three alternative visions, ‘A Voice from Utopia’ attempts to deconstruct the concept of the nation state. From virtual communities like Bitnation to micronations like Liberland.
It comes from Blank Maps – an Arabic podcast that seeks to address the problem of statelessness in the Arab world. By doing that, the show tries to understand concepts of belonging and citizenship at a time where immigration and refuge are most relevant.
Tala Elissa is a writer and podcast producer from Jordan. Her work can be found at www.talaelissa.com
Blank Maps was produced for the podcast network Sowt. You can learn more about Sowt here.
“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 landscape. She walked out on towards the sea, to the edge of the ice. Here the story ends with her footprints…”
Deep beneath the Greenlandic ice, lies a hidden history. The Danish feature-maker Rikke Houd travels in the footsteps of Karen Roos, who disappeared on the ice outside the small East Greenlandic town of Tasiilaq in 1933.
Winner of the 2015 In The Dark award for audio documentary presented at Sheffield Doc/fest. Produced with support from the Danish Arts Council.
Silvestro has worked in the mine since he was 23 years old – now he’s 67. Manlio, at 40, left teaching to go and work in the mine, but to know himself and this new world, had to take on its most infamous job – the time-keeper. He’s now 88.
The paths of these two men, different but parallel, meet in 1992 when they barricade themselves into the San Giovanni mine for months – laying explosives across the opening, preventing its closure and the slow desertification of the territory at that time. Years later, after the mines are closed and the desertification advances, Manlio and Silvestro revisit the ghosts of their past.
Best Radio Documentary at the Prix Italia and Prix Europa 2018.
Directed by Gianluca Stazi and Giuseppe Casu
Script by Gianluca Stazi and Giuseppe Casu
Sound by Gianluca Stazi
Editing by Gianluca Stazi
Producing organisation: Tratti Documentari
Co-producing organisation: Rai Radio3
Commissioning editors: Daria Corrias and Fabiana Carobolante for Tre Soldi – Radio3 Rai
A message from the makers –
Dear listener,
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Keep fighting!
Gianluca and Giuseppe
Karen Mørk is a radio documentary-maker who won the Danish Short Dox final in 2018 with ‘When We Got To Know Grief’, she was also the recipient of the Åke Blomström Award in 2017.
A longer version of this documentary will be available on Radio24syv in Spring 2019.
Executive producer: Kim Fox
English translation and editing: Nour Ibrahim, Nadeen Shaker, Calvin Harrison and Safaa Magdy
The Ehky Ya Masr (Tell Your Story Egypt) Podcast launched in 2017 as a platform to tell narrative non-fiction audio stories about life in Egypt. The podcast has been recognized with three awards from the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) for several of its audio features.
Kanzy Mahmoud is currently pursuing an MA in Digital Journalism at Goldsmiths in London. Previously she was a Technical Advisor for the Egyptian German Joint Committee for Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency and Environmental Protection (JCEE) and for the GIZ, the German Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation. She earned a BA from The American University in Cairo (AUC) specialising in both political science and multimedia journalism, the latter of which has prompted her to work as a freelance TV reporter for Egypt’s CBC TV channel. She received the first place award at the Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media and Arts in 2016 for an audio documentary she produced on the experiences of AUCians studying abroad.
Executive producer: Kim Fox
English translation and editing: Nadeen Shaker and Nour Ibrahim
The Ehky Ya Masr (Tell Your Story Egypt) Podcast launched in 2017 as a platform to tell narrative non-fiction audio stories about life in Egypt. The podcast has been recognized with three awards from the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) for several of its audio features.
Nadeen Shaker is an associate editor at the Cairo Review of Global Affairs and a freelance multimedia producer. Her work has appeared in Vice News, Quartz, Muftah, Salon, Bedford and Bowery, The Middle East Report, The Postcolonialist, The BRICS Post, AlterNet, WNYU, PRI’s America Abroad Media, CNN and Ahram Online, among others. She was awarded the David Teeuwen Student Journalism Award from the Online News Association for a VR interactive website called New York Values. She holds an MA from New York University and a BA from The American University in Cairo.
A feature which weaves together audio compositions created by inmates serving long-term sentences interwoven with their reflections on sound and listening.
Winner of the Prix Futura in 1993.
René Farabet (1934 – 2017) was one of the key figures in the Atelier de Creation Radiophonique at France Culture from its creation in 1969 until 2000. A master of the creative audio feature, his work was profoundly influential on radio-makers around the world.
The interviews in this program were recorded in the ‘Studio of Time’ at St Maur prison.
The Studio of Time was created in 1991 by the composer Nicolas Frize and his associates (Les Musiques de la Boulangère). Composed of twelve digitising studios, two radio and music studios and two workshops, this is a space where art and culture join forces to offer high-level training programs in sound skills and a profession to fifteen long term detainees. The Studio of Time continues to exist, functioning as a service of public utility in collaboration with institutions such as the National Sound Archive, the National Archives, various museums and other bodies.