Jay Sykes 🎙📻🎨📖🎓🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺

Audiomaker Ariana Martinez and Radio Atlas founder Eleanor McDowall sit side by side on stage at the Lucia festival in Italy in 2019. A screen behind them and a laptop between them. Both of them have short hair and wear big boots.

A crowd sit in a cosy room as a subtitled audio documentary plays on the screen in the background. The text reads “the lady smelled like my grandma’s garden. Really. She had this floral scent… and then I just relaxed and fell into her arms”

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

BBC Sounds - Artworks - Available Episodes Listen to the latest episodes of Artworks on BBC Sounds.

Cultural recommendation for UK folk: Artworks art docs on BBC Sounds. Enjoying one about recorders by Susan Calman (expires tomorrow). Also beautiful Souvenirs by @helenzaltzman.bsky.social and @martinaustwick.bsky.social, and a doc about Leigh Bowery by Nick Grimshaw www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Love the glee in Trainline’s notification voice when it says: “Your connecting train will leave on time.” Thanks, love, but my initial one didn’t so…… 😅🤷‍♂️

How exceptional was Austria though? I’m still weeping 🥹

All Hear Newsletter, May 2025 - Transom All Hear Newsletter, May 2025 - Transom

The latest "All Hear" from @taliaaugustidis.bsky.social is out with 140+ opportunities for audio makers everywhere. Feat. @observeruk.bsky.social, The Bell, Levels Up Academy, The Moth, EarBuds Podcast Collective & the Berlin School of Podcasting:
transom.org/2025/all-hea...

Frozen South Marine Park pleasure pond. Ducks congregate near edge where ice is broken. Seagull captured flying in centre of picture. More gulls in the distance standing on the ice.

Walking through path in South Marine Park South Tyneside. Trees and shrubbery silhouetted with orange glowing sun peeking through branches.

Been editing a #CultureStart commission, preparing for an exhibition & continuing work behind the scenes on the #TyneDerwentWay Riverside Routes projects.

Also ❤️ thursdays catch-up with Helix Arts chatting about #SouthTyneside adventures. Getting outside is so good for you & sparks creativity.

‘So immoral’: gig economy workers forced to pay fee to receive their wages Retail assistants on low pay using YoungOnes platform docked cash or told to wait up to 30 days for earnings

I see the dystopia decided to ramp things up a bit

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

i think it’s safe to say a lot of us will be keeping the audio adventure flame alive thanks to Short Cuts 🌱

“This is a moment in radio history and not a good one, as the final episode of Short Cuts on Radio 4 airs. After 40 series of extraordinary, groundbreaking audio…” - @radiotimes.bsky.social Pick of the Week

🌙 Listen to ‘Midnight’ - the last edition of @josielong.bsky.social's Short Cuts on Radio 4

New doctor who episode joins the "episodes I have cried at" club

it was very very good

wasn't expecting partygate to be part of it lmao

Joyous 🎉

Relatable 🙌
But thinking positively…. something concrete to aim towards..? 🥰

San Martín Railway at night in Vedia, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina in November 2024 – by Joaquín Conde fieldrecordings.xyz/2024/12/01/s...

A new episode of the #ArtyParti #podcast is now available 🎨🎉🎙️

Six more #artist & #creative folks “step up to the microphone” at our first ‘Show & Tell’ event at @portindependent.bsky.social in #Sunderland

#Embroidery, #AudioDrama, #Illustrations, #Watercolour, #FoundObjects, and more 🙌

I'm finally realising how Ai has completely killed the status of the written assignment academia - I knew it before but seeing it in play is something else. I guess vivas, exams and in-person presentations are the only way forward.

Vessels of Memory: Glass Ships of Sunderland - BBC Sounds Now an endangered craft, discover the lost legacy of Sunderland’s glass ships in bottles.

In a storytelling workshop, I tasked MA Radio students with cutting my #AudioDoc ‘Vessels of Memory’ from 28 to 10 mins

Cue reading reviews and reminiscing…

“What a perfectly told story this is for our times.” - @daisydunn.bsky.social in the Spectator

I’m so proud of Ayako Tani and our production

I love my job of getting to curate radio but the downside is the ugly crying it makes me do sometimes

ArtyParti - Show & Tell #2 Join us for our second 'Show and Tell' - a live podcast recording where artists & creatives are invited to share their work & projects.

Join us for our second 'Show and Tell' at @portindependent.bsky.social in #Sunderland

A live #podcast recording where #artist & #creative types are invited to share their projects 🎨🎉🎙️

2:30pm-5:30pm, Sunday 8th December 2024

Please help us share 🥰🙌

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/artyparti-...

40 Sunderland uni jpurnallsm students at Northern Echo HQ today for real world newsroom insights. Thank you @gavfostereditor.bsky.social

In an era where there are fewer and fewer cultivated platforms for emerging and early-career producers to broadcast imaginatively crafted and beautifully audiophonic work, the waves made by the discontinuation of Short Cuts will ripple for years to come. Please support @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social

Official selection: Inno Vision Film Festival 2024

1,000 downloads for I Need A Miracle

I Need A Miracle zapped past 1,000 downloads and got its first awards circuit laurel this week – not bad going just a few days after the season 1 finale! Thank you post-season binge listeners, thank you Inno Vision judges

Similar experience; most work has been through X or Facebook recommendations or conversations. That’s why I’m thrilled Bluesky seems to be opening up as a new avenue, but for now it’s a case of this space building up over time. Keep talking, keep sharing, keep learning, keep networking 🙌

I have a brochure for my editing business, it’s gone through several edits to get it looking right.
It has given me zero clients.

Everyone I’ve edited has been through networking.

Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD The police tell us they are here to protect us. But what if their original purpose was something else altogether? Peabody Award-winning host Chenjerai Kumanyika takes listeners on a journey to uncover...

wondery.com/shows/empire...
I see massive group of politics- obsessed ppl here, and I'd like you all to hear this stunning piece of journalism by @chenjerai.bsky.social
#empirecity's depth + scope of the origins of 🇺🇸's police force is mind-blowing. Please tune in here & turn off the MSM.

I will always champion student radio for being so pivotal for launching so many careers in audio, and what the organisation does year after year entirely ran by the passion of volunteers is truly remarkable!

Great to have Ger from Veterans In Crisis Sunderland visit parliament today.

We met with the Veterans Minister to discuss how to strengthen veteran voices in parliament and the vital work Ger's team does to support service personnel and their families in the city.

Yay James 🥰🎉
Welcome to Bluesky, friend 🙌
(It’s pretty chill and nice here)

BBC Radio 4 - Pick of the Week, Romy Gill Romy Gill chooses audio highlights from the past week.

Making my first post what I do best - promoting the best audio across the BBC this week 🎉 and you can listen at 1815 this eve when Romy Gill MBE chooses the highlights, including the Plymouth fish finger and a coal mine rescue - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #POTW #radio #audio