BBC Radio 4 Transmission Date Tuesday 13th November 2018, 11.30am – Repeated Monday 18th March 2019 at 4pm on BBC Radio 4 Presented by Peter Shenai Produced by Matthew Teller and Adam Fowler People need stories – but climate change is remote from us. How can we make climate change human? Where’s the story in atmospheric…
Fifty years after the Biafran war, Afua Hirsch scrutinises the explosion of news coverage with its defining images of hungry black children, revealing how messages were manipulated and a particular idea of ‘Africa’ fixed in public imagination. It changed the way aid agencies work and how Britain saw the world. Presented by Afua…
Anglo-Spanish artist Sonia Boué charts an artistic journey that sees her retracing (in reverse) the exile of her father José María Garcia Lora, upon leaving Spain during the Civil War. Partly in response to the current unrest in Catalonia we end up in Barcelona, a seminal place of memory for Sonia and whose fall in…
Afterlives: Zeena and Martin broadcasts on BBC Radio 4 on 30th November, 2021 at 11am. We are proud to announce the latest Overtone broadcast on BBC Radio 4; Afterlives: Zeena and Martin. Afterlives is an intermittent series produced by Overtone Productions for BBC Radio 4, which aims to bring two people together who have a past…
Remember Oluwale broadcasts on BBC Radio 4 on 16th October 2021 at 8pm. Overtone are proud to announce our latest broadcast on BBC Radio 4: Remember Oluwale. Re-examining the death of black man David Oluwale and the ensuing trial of two police officers 50 years ago, assessing the significance then, and the continued relevance today. Tony…
Inventive launches today: a brand-new podcast blending the lines between fact and fiction, as engineers and writers collaborate to create engaging and compelling stories. This ground-breaking intersection of STEM and Art gives a fantastic insight into the similarities between two seemingly disparate fields. Overtone Productions are thrilled to be producing the series. In the…
BBC Radio 4: 13:30pm Transmission Date: 4 August 2019 Produced by Adam Fowler We follow Adam Fowler as he records artists at work in different locations – from the ramparts of a ruined Northumberland castle to a small, echoing chamber – to test how their creativity is affected by the acoustics of a space. There has been plenty…
BBC Radio 4: 1130am Transmission Date: 30 July 2019 Produced by Philippa Geering We use our hands a lot. When we’re making something, we use our hands. When we’re doing something, we’re using our hands. To help us communicate to others through gesture and touch, our hands are in use. What do our hands really reveal…
We are thrilled and honoured to have been nominated for the Audio Production Awards 2018! Adam Fowler has been nominated for the BEST SOUND DESIGNER/ENGINEER award, celebrating the talents of sound designers, mixers, studio managers and others who create startling soundscapes that elevate audio from great to extraordinary. And Anna Scott-Brown for the BEST ARTS PRODUCER award. This…
