According to the most recent Home Office statistics, the largest national grouping held in slavery here in the UK is British. Sangita Myska uncovers the hidden story of these victims, revealing who they are and how their enslavement can happen within the UK’s borders. Speaking to Emilie Martin of the Salvation Army, the Independent Anti-Slavery…
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We are delighted to announce that our very own Philippa has been nominated as one of the 2019 finalists of the DARA (Documentary Audio Recognition Award). The winner and runner-up of the DARA will be announced on the evening of Thursday 5th September at the Regent’s Street Cinema as part of Open City Documentary Festival.…
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…
Andrey Levitskiy’s up for an award recognising his research which formed the basis of the programme he made with Overtone: New Church for the Red State broadcast on the BBC World Service. Andrey was shortlisted for the Vice-Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research Awards at Oxford University. One hundred years ago, the Russian Revolution of 1917 brought a radical…
Migraine is a new Overtone documentary part of BBC Radio 4 series Art of Now, where sound artist Alice Trueman writes a specially commissioned musical score to explore migraine attacks and their possible link to creativity. Attempts to describe migraine have been made in visual arts and literature but here, for the first time, Alice Trueman creates…
