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Cesilie’s family have wrapped their secrets in a brown parcel. Her father gave her the parcel ten years ago – asking her not to open it until two years after her mother dies. Ten years later, and almost two years after her mother has passed away, Cesilie is ready to see what’s inside.

The Brown Parcel (Den Brune Pakken) was made by Kari Hesthamar. The technical direction was by Kåre Johan Lund and the coach was Berit Hedemann. It won the Prix Europa in 2004.

Kari Hesthamar began working at NRK in 1996 and in the Radio Documentary department at NRK P2 from 1999 where she produced work that won awards at the Prix Italia, Prix Europa and Prix Radio. In 2008, she released the book So Long Marianne. A love story about Marianne Ihlen’s relationship with Leonard Cohen and Axel Jensen. Since 2016 she has been employed as a project manager for podcasts in NRK.

Music by Barbara Okma

Aired in the VPRO Radio 1 series ‘One Minute‘

Bert Kommerij (1964) writer, radiomaker, voice-over, host.

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.

Bert Kommerij (1964) writer, radiomaker, voice-over, host.

A fleeting scene from a remote village in Polesia, south east Belarus. After lunch and liquor on the Saturday before Orthodox Easter at babka Maria’s house. No meat is allowed on the table. The only one exempt from this rule is Maria’s ginger cat…

Recorded as part of a documentary on the Belarusian photographer Siarhiej Leskiec, whilst he was capturing material for his project ‘Whisper’  in which he tries to capture the lives of the last whisperers – women who believe they are healing illnesses with incantations.

Inga Janiulytė is a journalist for Lithuanian National Radio.

Colette Bertin has recorded hundreds of radio programs on audio cassettes. Today, at 82, Colette plunges into her archive and evokes a whole life spent listening, from tapes to podcasts.

Special Commendation at the Prix Europa and Prix Italia in 2014.

“If we didn’t look after ourselves, we were done for…”

Three former inmates of the Brens women’s concentration camp, who were detained from 1942-44, recall their experiences

The concentration camp for women in Brens, southwest France, existed from 1942 to 1944. Three women from different backgrounds – Arlette, Nuria and Angelita – recount the time they spent in the camp. Arlette was picked up at random by the Vichy police. Angelita was arrested for conspiracy against Marshal Pétain, while Nuria fell victim to her status as a Spanish refugee. The three women were sent to Brens, where they co-habited with women from all over Europe separated into wooden huts by nationality.

A tribute to the solidarity and moments of friendship that are essential to surviving such an ordeal.

Camp Sisterhood (Soeurs de Camp) received special commendations at the Prix Europa and the Prix Italia and won the Prix Bohemia in 2013.

Benoît Bories is a radio documentary maker and a sound composer. He produces radio documentaries for France Culture, ARTE radio and RTBF as well as other non-French speaking radio stations. With Charlotte Rouault, he founded Faïdos Sonore, a sound production collective who makes radio documentaries. For the last three years, he has also been making sound creations for live performances, installations and theater.

Charlotte Rouault is a French freelance radio documentary-maker. She has worked with France Culture, ARTE radio, RTBF and RTS. In 2009, with Benoît Bories, she created Faïdos Sonore, where she developed her documentary approach in parallel with a will to transmit and share, through workshops and training.

 

“A little girl is playing with her shadow. It follows her, doing everything she does. The girl is fascinated – she is totally in control, deciding exactly what the next step will be. But suddenly, something happens. As she turns a corner, she runs right into a bigger shadow and no matter where she turns, how she runs or waves, her little follower has disappeared, swallowed up by a bigger darkness. The girl stands still for a while, not understanding…”

Susanne Björkman’s Prix Italia-winning documentary, In the Shadow of the Phantom, tells the story of 25-year-old Aziza, a woman who works in a Stockholm metro station close to a local group of skinheads’ stomping ground. Her mother is German, her father is Tunisian and Aziza herself was brought up in Sweden, but people have let her know in no uncertain terms that she does not fit in.

Susanne Björkman was born in 1946, beginning her radio career at the Swedish Radio Company in 1971 and working exclusively in documentary form from 1976. She’s a garlanded feature-maker winning awards such as the Prix Italia, the Jörgen Ericsson Award and the Ikaros. In 1990 she became Sweden’s first professor in radio production at the Drama Institute in Stockholm. Susanne’s programmes are often portraits of people she has spent extensive time with, recording what happens in their lives. What is recorded is both an external and an internal process. The conflicts or themes that crystallise during the recording are often quite separate from the genesis of the documentary.

Matěj has perfect pitch and a phenomenal memory – often speaking in remembered fragments of fairytales and television shows. He also suffers from extensive autism with signs of Asperger syndrome.

Winner of the Prix Bohemia, AudioREPORT and Government Board Award (2017), nominated for the Prix Europa.

Dramaturgy by Lenka Svobodová

Sound and technical editing by Roman Špála

Freddie Bagron, a retired opera singer, is preparing for an important performance – an act of love for his terminally ill wife, Turid. The doctors tell him Turid’s cancer is incurable but in Freddie’s mind, Turid is recovering.

Sindre Leganger (b. 1987) is an independent producer from Norway. He makes documentaries both for national and international audiences, such as ‘Still Glowing Strong‘ (NRK, 2014) and ‘Wood Fighting With Steel‘ (Love + Radio, 2016).

Technical direction – Kjetil Hansen

Coach – Kjetil Saugestad

Recorded at a summer camp on the edge of the North Sea, Leaps and Dunes captures children in the process of growing up.

Leaping across the sands, swimming too far out in the water, investigating the mysteries held by the girl’s bathroom… this documentary places the listener amidst the swirls of cigarette smoke, on mischievous midnight expeditions and in the middle of awkwardly slow dancing young adults. A poetic portrait of a summer spent away from parents.

This documentary received a special commendation at the Prix Italia in 2001.

Rikke Houd has produced work for NRK, SR, Third Ear, BBC, Radio24syv, DR, RÚV, KNR, CBC, ABC and more. Her work has been broadcast internationally and screened widely – at Sheffield Doc Fest, In The Dark, CPH:DOX, Tempo Documentary Festival and Reykjavik International Film Festival and more. She was a Prix Italia Finalist and Special Mention in 2001, 2014 and 2015; was featured on the Prix Europa shortlist (2005, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2013) and won the In The Dark Award at Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2015.

Sabine Hviid now works as a production designer for films and television. Together with Rikke Houd she founded Polar Radio in 2004, a non-profit project that aims to help youth in remote communities or youth belonging to minority groups articulate important issues through radio features and creative radio pieces. She won the Robert (2015) and the Kodak Commercial (2003) Awards for Best Production Design.