“Intensely powerful [and] sensitively handled by producer Jodie Taylor…” - @radiotimes.bsky.social Pick of the Day Listen to ‘Functioning’ this Sunday in BBC Radio 4’s Illuminated www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

"Now that you’re old, and now that the world is ending, try to be useful..." There's so much wisdom and generosity in these @rumblestrip.bsky.social Rules for Radio on @transom.bsky.social transom.org/2026/my-rule...

Delighted to see this! Congratulations @catherineboulle.bsky.social!

This month Radio Atlas turns ten! 🎈 An ongoing labour of love, Radio Atlas has been kept afloat by 100s of tiny acts of kindness. By makers who shared their work, helped make the work of others accessible, worked on translations or wrote to me about the radio they love… Www.radioatlas.org

I was delighted to be featured in this charming podcast hosted by the brilliant poet Jack Underwood

"A very different listen..." Great to hear a listener write in to BBC Radio 4's Pick of the Week about our recent Illuminated 'The Metaphor Consultant' Catch up on the Illuminated podcast www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

"It's such a beautiful image of how looking back can actually help you stand more firmly in the present..." Moved to hear Emma Freud's introduction to a clip of Mum in a Box on BBC Radio 4's Pick of the Week, speaking just a few weeks after the death of her own mother www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

This is good www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Listen to The Metaphor Consultant on BBC Radio 4 now: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Or catch up later with the Illuminated podcast

Profound sadness but an undiminished yearning for justice 45 years on from the New Cross Fire at the Memorial Service to remember those who were killed...

Tonight in BBC Radio 4’s Illuminated, the poet Jack Underwood offers his services as a metaphor consultant, for a very reasonable fee. Listen to The Metaphor Consultant in the Illuminated podcast Produced by Eleanor McDowall www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

"It’s that sense of easy conversation – a connection between Hall and the musicians that is free and friendly... an enchanting listen..." Great to see this Nuala McCann @irishnews.com review of the latest series of Instrumental! www.irishnews.com/entertainmen...

"Podcasting isn’t a genre; it’s an industry. Mashing together news, interview shows, celebrity-driven conversations and self-help monologues doesn’t make much sense. More striking still is what the nominations are missing entirely..."

Excited to see a new listening cinema popping up in Edinburgh... 📻 ✨ Sounds for the Dark is having its first event in a couple of weeks - more details here: soundsforthedark.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/o...

“Johnny Flynn gets the second series of Instrumental off to a delightful start..." - @radiotimes.bsky.social Pick of the Week Instrumental, our series of intimate musical conversations, returns to BBC Radio 3. Listen every night at 9.45pm or catch up on BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Great to hear Sarah Walker preview the return of our series Instrumental to BBC Radio 3! Starting tomorrow night at 9.45pm, in the first episode listen to Alan Hall in conversation with Johnny Flynn about his relationship with the violin www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Wonderful to see Problems with Julia Masli (produced by @taliaaugustidis.bsky.social and Julia Masli) in @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social's audio top ten of 2025 for @theobserveruk.bsky.social! Listen on the BBC Radio 4 Illuminated podcast: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Great piece from Fiona on the general enshittification of podcasts, thanks to a paradigm shift towards video. Very good insights as well from @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social and Eleanor McDowall of @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social.

Struggling to make sense of a complicated world? You need a metaphor!

“Head over to Falling Tree productions for the best of creative radio… Dip into their archives and you’ll find treasures aplenty. Imaginative, enchanting, strange, enthralling… it’s all there.” Lovely to see this in Nuala McCann’s @irishnews.com radio column! www.irishnews.com/opinion/radi...

Spot on article 👏 👏 This happens to be the topic of my keynote for @meccsa.bsky.social on 13 Feb (World Radio Day!): "Viva the Narrative Podcast: The Case Against Video". Audio's demise has been (wrongly) predicted before 😀 We are not giving up!

A podcast that is only, or primarily, on YouTube isn’t a podcast if you can’t watch that video without being on YouTube. The word “podcast” specifically *means* not being beholden to any tech giants like YouTube/Google/Alphabet. anildash.com/2024/02/05/w...

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I personally think the podcast medium is overstimulated for interviews and underutilised for beautiful atmospheric dramatic storytelling. But that’s probably just me.

Anyway, a great show for beautiful atmospheric pieces of storytelling via audio was BBC shortcuts. I wrote and read out a story about being a woman on the internet and being stalked here and they turned it into a terrifyingly beautiful work of art. open.spotify.com/episode/0sb4...

“The absence of images isn’t some failure of technology. These mediums have grown from a deep love of sound and its imaginative possibilities. When I hear people say the future of audio is essentially television, it makes me feel they never knew what was exciting about sound in the first place…”

As this year draws to a close here are a few glimpses of the last 12 months at Falling Tree. We’re looking forward to the sounds of 2026! 📻 ✨

this whole list is magic (and i'm not just saying that cause i'm on it)

Welp, laryngitis has compelled me to postpone the last episode of the year (and also AMT) to 2026. But now is a fine time to listen to some Festivelusionists, which are gathered in a playlist at theallusionist.org/festivelusionist

Merry Christmas from Falling Tree 🎄 If you’re looking for listening on a long festive journey, here are 12 of the things that caught our ears in the past year…

…and our Alan Hall playing Christmas carols on the street with Crystal Palace Brass Band! 🎺 Listen here: fieldrecordings.xyz/2025/12/21/t...

The Sound of 2025 A slow weave of some of the past year’s Field Recordings, from a child playing in the snow to a brass band playing Christmas carols in the street… fieldrecordings.xyz/2025/12/21/t...

More Christmas ghost story fun on Radio 4🎄👻

Sounds like a must-listen in the midst of ghost story season... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

An hour of radio devoted to the history of the midwinter/Christmas ghost story www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

However & whenever you hear it this #Christmas2025 season, this is a BBCRadio4 #Christmas treat, from the superb BBCArchive strand & Katherine Rundell, that is not to be missed www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A Christmas haunting on BBC Radio 4 tonight… 🎄 @katherinerundell.bsky.social presents A Ghost Story for Christmas Featuring Jeanette Winterson, Professor John Mullan and Sarah Waters Produced by Sarah Cuddon Music by Cabinet of Living Cinema www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Thanks to everyone who bought a copy yesterday! 75% of these have now been sold - snap one up at the link below if you’re in the market for incredibly niche Christmas gifts… 🎁 Posting this Thursday! 💌 weirdnoisezine.bigcartel.com/product/into...

Into the Ether is an essay and archival project, exploring the spirits of radio's imaginative past and how our memories of the radio might shape the sound of its future. weirdnoisezine.bigcartel.com/product/into... Written by Eleanor McDowall Weird Noise Logo by @resonance-archive.bsky.social

What happens to a medium that disappears into thin air? Into the Ether - the first in a new series of miniature Weird Noise editions launches today weirdnoisezine.bigcartel.com/product/into...

This is a fabulous programme. Most interesting are the exact percentage figures given of cuts to specific arts over the last 10 years. So where has all the money taken from this public good gone? Who got the money? Public money for public good, taken.

"[Art Class] is, itself, a small piece of art..." - @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/audi...

Love the look of this Phonurgia Nova project - "the first bookstore of listening in Paris"... seems like it'll be back in the Spring! phonurgia.fr/2025/12/08/p...

This plaque was written by @andrimagnason.bsky.social - you can hear him talk about it here - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

On the radio now 📻 🎨 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The value of art 'has become mysterious', said the critic John Berger. Tonight’s Illuminated on Radio 4 weaves together voices from the archive to consider 'where does this value come from?' Listen to Art Class www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Prod Alan Hall Archive prod @phoebemcindoe.bsky.social

Scott Carrier, radio legend, takes us inside a remote town in Utah. It’s a quiet story about landscape and longing. About the people who make up this complicated and beautiful place. Listen to “Old La Sal”, the inaugural story for our new project and callout, “The Listeners.” bit.ly/44NfSwU

“Half-Life had me hooked from its first line…” Great to see our BBC Radio 4 podcast Half-Life in the mix for this @newyorker.com round up of the year! 🥂

Always a sonic highlight of the year - Sean writes about music with so much care and imagination!