In this week’s Between the Ears, saxophonist Pauli Lyytinen travels to Sápmi, to Ohcejohka (Utsjoki), to visit his friend, writer–musician Niillas Holmberg. The two artists go rowing in the river, improvise under the Sámi bridge, and make music with birds… www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

"My favourite listen last week... strange and funny... The soundwork, by the brilliant @taliaaugustidis.bsky.social, is fantastic..." Wonderful to see this @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social review of Problems with Julia Masli in this weekend's @theobserveruk.bsky.social! observer.co.uk/culture/audi...

Listen to The Last Cowboys on The Documentary podcast from the BBC World Service - a long-haul view of the life of modern truckers in Europe www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

There are so many problems in the world. For the past 3 years, Estonian clown Julia Masli - armed with a microphone taped to a mannequin leg - has been trying to solve them. Listen to Problems with Julia Masli on Radio 4 at 7.15pm or later on the Illuminated podcast www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

FREE PODCASTING EVENT IN NYC NOV 12 I'm looking forward to speaking with @brihreed.bsky.social @yoweishaw.bsky.social and @evrat.bsky.social about what it really takes to run an independent narrative podcast. RSVP here: www.journalism.cuny.edu/events/how-t...

Delighted to see @phoebemcindoe.bsky.social and @redzi.bsky.social’s BBC Radio 4 series County Lines nominated for this year’s British Journalism Awards! Listen to the series here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

We’re so happy to see County Lines, @phoebemcindoe.bsky.social and @redzi.bsky.social getting well-deserved awards recognition this week! Firstly from @savethechildren.org’s Global Media Awards - www.savethechildren.net/news/save-ch...

@katlister.bsky.social Might you be open to taking part in a BBC radio series we make about musical instruments? Can I tell you more? A. [email protected]

Posting one unique, inspiring or experimental sound piece a day Day 25: How to Remember by Axel Kacoutié A poetic, immersive meditation on identity, memory, and belonging 🥇 2022 Third Coast Audio Festival #SonicWonders #audiosky 🔗 www.thirdcoastfestival.org/feature/how-...

Beautiful piece from @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social and more important than ever 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

sound fields, a journal about the art + practice of documentary audio that i make w/ many brilliant folks just launched its second issue. The subject: archives. i wrote something for it about how to save the truth, we must all become archivists for the future: www.soundfields.org/02-letter-fr...

A joy to listen to #WhereTheDistanceShimmers A Eulogy to Route 66, poetic, lyrical, nostalgic @ladymissbarton.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

“Nuanced, layered and poetic…” tomorrow night’s BBC Radio 4 Illuminated ‘Where the Distance Shimmers’ is @radiotimes.bsky.social documentary pick of the week www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Presented by @ladymissbarton.bsky.social Produced by Alan Hall

Friends of MT & regular helper Jesse Lawson and @inthedarkradio.bsky.social are running Interviewing MAGIC A 6-week short course on creative + ethical interviewing for audio. Early/mid-career folks, this is for you 📅 14 Oct – 18 Nov 2025 📍 Online via Zoom www.inthedarkradio.org/interviewing...

Reading this silly quote and thinking of the brilliant @tomhumberstone.com zine I'm a Luddite (and So Can You!) thenib.com/im-a-luddite/ Having a critical approach to the tech you make things with (& its impact on labour rights) doesn't mean you can't understand how to use your iPhone or whatever!

@rdreditor.bsky.social is looking for a new journal Co-Editor. Deadline 30 Sept to start Jan 2026. Opportunity for #documentary #radio, #audio and #podcast academics www.uowoajournals.org/rdr/news/7/

Delighted to see Dust - from our Lights Out podcast - featured in Aesthetica Festival’s first ever official audio selection Drawing on ideas in his book, On Time and Water, @andrimagnason.bsky.social and the artist Katie Paterson explore how our imagination can help us hold the moment we live in

Your weekend listening is all right here: writteninair.substack.com/s/written-in... Or here: writteninair.bandcamp.com/album/issue-...

At about 4.10pm on this day 54 years ago, something weird started happening on Scottish Television. There was no announcement, and no credit was given to the person who had created them, but strange short films suddenly started popping up in the schedules youtu.be/AA9IdHtHk_0?...

🚨 Calling all AIR audio makers! 🚨 From daily news shows to sonic experiments, if you made it—we want to feature it in AIR’s Listening Booth. 🎧 Submit here: ow.ly/4kBF50WOgI0

I'll be in #London next week with @toritsui.bsky.social, @tessakhan.bsky.social, @lucasamin.bsky.social, and more talking about how the fossil fuel industry has harnessed culture vs climate action, and how to wrestle it back. Come join us! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/earth-perc...

“Capitalist goonery aside, what stands out to me now, standing on the other side of a popped bubble, is the distinct lack of creative ambition in the industry…” @alexlaughs.bsky.social is such a thoughtful writer about the many cursed aspects of this industry and the forces driving them

Back in 2023, @rob-rosenthal.bsky.social interviewed Alan Hall of @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social about the idea of abstract, non-narrated audio stories. The two of them dissect their own approaches to making audio. It's a fascinating conversation that questions the very nature of this form.

Touched to see @josielong.bsky.social’s Short Cuts in the top twenty of this list voted by audio creators! Thank you to everyone who voted and for the kind words about the series! www.leftofdialmedia.com/elp-shortcuts

Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign here: tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign

A short clip from Angry and Young, produced by Alan Hall for Radio 4’s Artworks series, airs in Pick of the Week tonight… listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This afternoon on BBC Radio 4, people working in theatre take a cue from Look Back in Anger to consider how anger can be a motivation for art… www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

NPR Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it's shutting down www.npr.org/2025/08/01/n...

A lovely listen. Adore @helenzaltzman.bsky.social 's voice and style.

And still, the bells ... A lovely reader on Substack (@seasider68) alerted me to @ladymissbarton.bsky.social's www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Notes on Music. A whole 28 mins on bellringing, & it is sublime.

“One-off documentaries are at the heart of Radio 4 and this one was gorgeous…” Great to see @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social pick up @helenzaltzman.bsky.social and @martinaustwick.bsky.social’s documentary Souvenirs in this weekend’s @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/audi...

This is a beautiful, rare and briliant bit of radio. Quite unlike anything you’ve heard in an age. Gift yourself an hour in its company. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Great to see both The Brighton Bomb (produced by Walk on Air Films, which our Alan Hall worked on as both story consultant and sound designer) and our Eleanor McDowall's Radio Atlas nominated at this year's British Podcast Awards!

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

This is TODAY and sounds fascinating:

And if you're outside the UK, you can listen via the amazing @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social free archive: soundcloud.com/fallingtreep...

Always read the Structurally Fucked report! Focuses on gallery art but relevant for all of us. Part of the issue is that film & TV high end creatives didn't listen when it was affecting other less monied industries or affecting crew or emerging artists. www.a-n.co.uk/research/str...

Hey! Our piece #souvenirs is being broadcast on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow, 22 July at 4pm UK time (also available on the internet for a while thereafter), I’d love for you to listen! Especially if you enjoy tales of hurt feelings & petty revenge.

Sad to learn about the death of Joanna Macy… her words in this tender, expansive Phil Smith documentary (made with @somethinelse.bsky.social) have lingered for many years - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Joanna Macy radiated with joy and love for this life until the end. What a life. She was teaching until she died. Rest well, teacher. Thank you.

Broken friendship, typefaces, lost words, self-destruction and the legacies we didn’t intend to leave… Listen to Souvenirs (produced by @allusionistshow.bsky.social’s @helenzaltzman.bsky.social and @martinaustwick.bsky.social) in tomorrow’s Artworks on BBC Radio 4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Some stories take a long, long time - to unfold, to be told, and to find a home. This was one of them.  Time, Paper, Bone, made with the brilliant @bonganikona.bsky.social, is now out in its full and final form, on BBC Radio 4 💫 🎧 Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002g2nf

My dear friend, Catherine Boulle, and I have travelled a long journey with this piece and we are glad that it’s finally out in the world. Please feel free to give it a listen here: ❤️

Last night public radio lost federal funding. I encourage podcast producers to pull for public radio now. Reach out to your listeners. Encourage them to give. Shows like mine would not exist without public radio. www.rumblestripvermont.com/campaigns/vi...

This won’t fix the gutting of federal funding, but: Go ahead and shoutout a smaller public radio station that has meant something to you & include a donation link. I’ll start: WUOT Knoxville, which reaches up into mountains and was a lifeline for me for a couple years give.utk.edu/campaigns/42...

This programme, from @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social for BBC Radio 4 sounds both extraordinary and unmissable

Nombulelo Booi last saw her father – anti-apartheid activist James Booi – in 1963. He was dragged into an armoured police vehicle in the early hours of the morning and never seen again. Decades later, Nombulelo works with South Africa’s Missing Persons Task Team to find the remains of her father

This is back on Sounds. A beautiful and timely reminder of how many of us fell in love with radio.