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Audio journalism and documentaries. Series 2 Past Sounds podcast http://bit.ly/3f1bKyE Co-Editor RadioDoc Review https://ro.uow.edu.au/rdr/

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RadioDoc Review has a vacancy for a new journal Editor RadioDoc Review is looking for a new Co-Editor, to start January 2026 for a period of three years. RadioDoc Review is an open access, peer reviewed scholarly journal that recently โ€ฆ

@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/

05.09.2025 13:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What if podcasting isnโ€™t just a way to share researchโ€”but a way to do it? Benjamin Ball reflects on making #City#Life for ABC and shows how audio can be its own scholarly method.

Read now: doi.org/10.14453/rdr...

#audio #methodology #research

09.06.2025 08:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
1001 โ€ข A podcast on Spotify for Creators Welcome to 1001, with me your host and executive producer Scheherazade. 1001 stories, conversations, words, ideas. Weโ€™ll just have to see but itโ€™s the perfect podcast name โ€“ that just goes perfectly w...

Who gets recognised and rewarded in #podcasting
who doesn't, and why? That's the subject of one of our Falmouth Journalism PhDs Schez Safla, and her podcast '1001' features interviews with black women podcasters in South Africa on career and success. creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

04.09.2025 10:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
RadioDoc Review has a vacancy for a new journal Editor RadioDoc Review is looking for a new Co-Editor, to start January 2026 for a period of three years. RadioDoc Review is an open access, peer reviewed scholarly journal that recently โ€ฆ

By the way, RadioDoc Review is looking for a new Co-Editor. Open-access journal for good quality reviews and research articles on audio documentary. Read more here www.uowoajournals.org/rdr/news/7/ #radio #podcasts @rdreditor.bsky.social

11.08.2025 13:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Make an Audio Story with All The Best ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€ All The Best is seeking pitches for short audio documentaries and narrative journalism. Weโ€™re looking for story pitches around 12 - 15 minutes in length. DEADLINE EXTENDED! Applications close at 6pm...

This sounds like a great #radio #podcast documentary opportunity for someone starting out - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... All The Best is seeking pitches for short audio documentaries and narrative journalism.
Deadline 6pm AEST 18 Aug.
Mentoring, support and a $200 honorarium

08.08.2025 09:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
distorted waveforms as cover art for the journal

distorted waveforms as cover art for the journal

RadioDoc Review is open for submissions for the autumn 2025 issue - reviews of #radio and #Podcasts, essays, academic articles and short pieces. See the website for more uowoajournals.org/rdr/
If you're not sure whether your work is suitable, use the contact form to get in touch.

08.08.2025 08:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
RadioDoc Review | Issue: Issue: 1(10) (2025)

The new RadioDoc Review is outโ€”Volume 10, Issue 1 (2025). Some truly great pieces in this one. Check it out ๐Ÿ‘‰ www.uowoajournals.org/rdr/issue/15...

02.06.2025 09:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What happens when a podcast becomes the last chance for justice? In this conversational review, Caroline Graham & Kylie Stevenson unpack Dear Rachelleโ€”and the ethics of true crime reporting when the case is still open.

Read it: doi.org/10.14453/rdr...

#truecrime #podcast

11.06.2025 13:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Developing new teaching materials from research on the craft of audio storytelling My project to learn more about the craft of making factual audio programmes, as understood by programme-makers themselves, is coming to the end of its first (but I hope not last) phase. Benoรฎt Letiโ€ฆ

Coming to the end of the first phase of research into the craft of audio journalism and documentary making - working out what to do with all of it! #radio #audio #Podcasts abigailwincott.wordpress.com/2025/07/18/d...

18.07.2025 10:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What does it mean to oppose a war your brother is fighting in? In her review of the Russian podcast Sisters, Iana Nikitenko listens to women caught in that impossible spaceโ€”between loyalty, grief, and protest.

Read now: doi.org/10.14453/rdr...

10.06.2025 08:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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BBC Radio 4 - The History Podcast, Half-Life Reading his great-grandfather's memoir, Joe Dunthorne discovers a disturbing confession.

Was gripped by BBC History Podcast serial Half-Life. Sometimes found music a bit much, but cool music nonetheless and all beautifully made by @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social . Fascinating interviews, subtle treatment of complicated story by โ€ช@joedunthorne.bsky.socialโ€ฌ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

02.06.2025 09:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

The Sonic Histories of Cork City Project (SHOCC)(2018โ€“2021) explored the connections between sound, space, and history in Cork City, recreating historical soundscapes through archival research.

19.02.2025 11:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A sepia tinted image of UCC Quad from the late 19th / early 20th century.
Beneath the image are the words Sonic Histories of Cork City. 
Beneath this a UCC Logo (UCC, University College Cork, Colaiste na hOilscoile, Corcaigh, Library, Leabharlann) Beside this - to the right is a line drawing of UCC Library exterior

A sepia tinted image of UCC Quad from the late 19th / early 20th century. Beneath the image are the words Sonic Histories of Cork City. Beneath this a UCC Logo (UCC, University College Cork, Colaiste na hOilscoile, Corcaigh, Library, Leabharlann) Beside this - to the right is a line drawing of UCC Library exterior

New podcast episode now available
Our colleague @walkerabroad.bsky.social and John Hough (Dept. of Music, UCC) speak with @abigailwincott.bsky.social about The Sonic Histories of Cork City Project.

๐ŸŽง linktr.ee/UCCLibrary
Full show notes: abigailwincott.wordpress.com/2023/09/14/e...

19.02.2025 11:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Whoop whoop!!! Just found out Iโ€™ve won funding from #BAFTSS to hold a symposium on โ€˜ #Bonkbusters and #SoapOperas: Representing Sex, #Glamour, and #Melodrama on Screenโ€™ at Falmouth Uni!!!

17.01.2025 11:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 12 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Katie Hims and Kate Atkinson in one production- a must-listen

16.01.2025 12:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
On Air Fest

Excited to announce I'll be presenting some weird and wonderful vintage audio works from the vaults for this listening event at On Air Fest next month alongside Julia Barton and Sonja D. Williams.
Come steal some tricks from your audio ancestors!
www.onairfest.com/2025-session...

15.01.2025 20:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 17 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

This looks so good- wish I could come!

16.01.2025 12:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Awkward moments: reflecting embarrassment in documentary In the first few minutes of Rayka Zehtabchiโ€™s documentary short each interviewee in turn completely fails to speak on the subject (can they even be called interviewees?), before the film cuts to thโ€ฆ

Some exquisitely awkward examples of embarrassment in #audio and film #documentary. abigailwincott.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/a...

13.01.2025 20:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Piano lessons, Sliding Scales A story that follows a number of girls who are taking piano lessons, some who want to learn and some who don't.

This has historical context - Information with capital i - and still lets you make your own story. Also has more than one interview playing at once yet still intelligible, which is a trick Iโ€™ve not heard before ๐Ÿ˜ www.rte.ie/radio/docono...

20.12.2024 17:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Listening to a few of Kaye Mortleyโ€™s docs and liking them but wishing for a little more story structure. But then listening to heavily explained ones and wishing to be left alone a bit to listen after my ears were used to free rein.

20.12.2024 17:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™ve been listening to and watching a lot of documentaries this week for research and planning teaching. Itโ€™s inspiring and also emotionally draining. And now I have to go Christmas food shopping, which is quite the wake up call.

20.12.2024 17:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Consuming arts and culture is good for health and wellbeing, research finds Engaging with arts improves quality of life, increases productivity and creates financial โ€˜dividendโ€™

www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

17.12.2024 08:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Feedback - The Archers scam week. The End of Short Cuts. The Naked Week - BBC Sounds Andrea Catherwood hears views on The Archers scam week, and the end of Short Cuts.

โ€œItโ€™s made me challenge how you can tell a storyโ€ฆ weโ€™re in danger of having a really beige audio landscapeโ€

โ€œI found Short Cuts to be one of the most beautiful, creative and diverse podcasts availableโ€

Moved hearing listeners & makers on @BBCR4Feedback www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

09.12.2024 07:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The skipping was recorded with binaural mics in the boxer's ears. That places the listener inside the bubble and maybe in some sense inside the interior world of the thoughtful boxer.

06.12.2024 16:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

XG says a skipping rope forms a bubble around the person skipping. And within this bubble the skipper retreats, interiorises.

06.12.2024 16:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In the opening monologue a boxer lists all the domestic duties that preoccupy her. Her thoughts go round and round while the sound of a skipping rope is relentless.

06.12.2024 16:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Femmes de ring Lโ€™histoire de Tlana Eliezer raconte celle de beaucoup de femmes. Banlieusarde, boxeuse et jeune maman, son parcours est jonchรฉ de combats et guidรฉ par un farouche dรฉsir de rรฉussite. Prise de passionโ€ฆ

This series on women who box is put together with meticulous consideration for each element by director Xavier Gibert of RFILabo @rfi.bsky.social #radio #podcast rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/...

06.12.2024 16:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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13 Cornish Ghost Stories | Clemo Books Join creators of the spooky short story anthology in Clemo Books.

Fancy a spooky #Christmas? #13CornishGhostStories is coming to #ClemoBooks in #Newquay on the 19th December! Come and hear me, Derek Hayes, Nicola K Smith, and Roz Watkins getting ghostly!

www.clemobooks.co.uk/events-1/13-...

02.12.2024 19:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Friends of Tribeca Audio!
With twitter xโ€™d, I need your help spreading the word abt TA and sharing the news that submissions are open!

Itโ€™s just 20 bucks to submit but if youโ€™re an indie creator deterred by the fee, DM me! ๐Ÿค™

Qโ€™s? See the website or email entries (at) tribecafilm (dot) com!

25.11.2024 22:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 21 ๐Ÿ” 16 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I also find it a bit frustrating how fast it all rattles past. But I listened to two US docs I won't name on the same evening that explained everything.very.slowly and to be honest that drives me completely mad. Give me a stream of consciousness in movements any day.

02.12.2024 15:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0