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Radio Atlas @radioatlas.bsky.social · Aug 14

Primary school students interviewed local elders on how the soundscape had changed over their lifetimes. One recurring theme in these conversations was life in and with the forest — and from these stories, Forest is emerged…

www.radioatlas.org/forest-is/

Radio Atlas

Radio Atlas is an English-language home for subtitled audio from around the world.

www.radioatlas.org

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Radio Atlas @radioatlas.bsky.social · Aug 14

It was created as part of the larger project Whispers of Memory, which focused on researching and archiving the cultural heritage of the Lož Valley in rural Slovenia. Over the course of a week, the team collected around one hundred hours of sound recordings in collaboration with the local community

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Radio Atlas @radioatlas.bsky.social · Aug 14

Memories entangle with the trees as we wander into the forest in today’s Radio Atlas podcast 🌳

Produced by @martatlon.bsky.social for Radio Slovenija (2023)

Listen: www.radioatlas.org/forest-is/

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Radio Atlas @radioatlas.bsky.social · Jul 30

“…recreating “plausible” scenes or portraits that highlight the different laughter types. Les Anciens (The Elders) brings together two people who, in reality, have never met… I probably won’t choose… but if I could choose, I would like to end up like them…” www.radioatlas.org/the-elders/

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Radio Atlas @radioatlas.bsky.social · Jul 30

Laughing Tonalities (Anthologie du rire) uses as its material the laughter from recordings of 300 invited participants. Stéphane says, “The musical writing – based on very precise sound selection, manipulation and editing – brings into focus the timbres, the rhythms and the pitches of this material”

Photograph of Stéphane Borrel staring down the lens of a camera

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Radio Atlas @radioatlas.bsky.social · Jul 30

Documentary recordings of laughter musically interweave in this imagined scene by Stéphane Borrel

The Elders, from Laughing Tonalities, is today’s Radio Atlas podcast www.radioatlas.org/the-elders/

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Radio Atlas @radioatlas.bsky.social · Jul 25

…Dimitris Roidis, Daniel Semo and Joyce de Badts

Subtitles by Eleanor McDowall, web angel Charlie Shackleton www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

British Podcast Awards 2025: Full list of nominees from David Tennant to Lily Allen - BBC News

David Tennant, Louis Theroux, Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver are all up for prizes at the event in October.

www.bbc.co.uk

Radio Atlas @radioatlas.bsky.social · Jul 25

Delighted to see Radio Atlas nominated in the British Podcast Awards inaugural Video Innovation category!

Feat. work from the past year by Rūta Dambravaitė, Inga Janiulytė-Temporin, Qing Hu, Kato Vanackere, Hrvoje Korbar, Marija Pečnik Kvesić, Ka-Young Park… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Radio Atlas @radioatlas.bsky.social · Jul 23

“We learned to live against the current…The word ‘victory’ sounds too noisy. The silence that falls after is deafening since we are afraid of what comes next.”

Yevhenii Poliakov is an independent artist and researcher from Lviv, Ukraine. Listen on the Radio Atlas podcast

Radio Atlas

Radio Atlas is an English-language home for subtitled audio from around the world.

www.radioatlas.org

Radio Atlas @radioatlas.bsky.social · Jul 23

During the first months of the full-scale Russian invasion, water flowed through Ukrainian dreams. Recurring rains, floods and images of the seaside from the audio archive at the Center for Urban History inspired Yevhenii Poliakov to make a collage... www.radioatlas.org/worried-wate...

Radio Atlas

Radio Atlas is an English-language home for subtitled audio from around the world.

www.radioatlas.org

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Radio Atlas @radioatlas.bsky.social · Jul 23

Worried Waters of the War: Ukrainian Dreamscapes of 2022 by Yevhenii Poliakov is today’s Radio Atlas podcast

Listen: www.radioatlas.org/worried-wate...

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Radio Atlas @radioatlas.bsky.social · Jun 4

A conversation grows from a chance encounter on a train… He Called Me His Typhoon by Mattias Wallenius is today’s Radio Atlas podcast www.radioatlas.org/he-called-me...

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Maj Duckworth | Trice @majduckworth.bsky.social · Mar 31

For fun, posting one unique, inspiring or experimental sound piece a day

Day 3: Coming Out via Radio Atlas

A tender, powerful love story between two men in Lithuania, told as memory fades and truth emerges
Winner of Prix Europa 2024

#SonicWonders #audiosky #audiodoc
www.radioatlas.org/coming-out

Radio Atlas

Radio Atlas is an English-language home for subtitled audio from around the world.

www.radioatlas.org

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Radio Atlas @radioatlas.bsky.social · Mar 6

A screenshot of a meme from the Instagram account ‘audio industry gossip’. A person is messaging their friend, the speech bubble reads “I’m not in a good place right now” her friend replies “are you in the audio industry?”

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Radio Atlas @radioatlas.bsky.social · Mar 6

Although the opening few paragraphs give me many, many audio industry in 2025 feelings… 💀

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Radio Atlas @radioatlas.bsky.social · Mar 6

Delighted to see LRT’s Coming Out featured in @vulture.com’s Best Podcasts of 2025 (So Far) list! www.vulture.com/article/new-...

The Best Podcasts of 2025 (So Far)

Including a series that is as gorgeous as it is painful.

www.vulture.com

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Radio Atlas @radioatlas.bsky.social · Feb 22

"This has to be one of the most beautiful, tender and heartbreaking love stories ever..."

www.irishnews.com/entertainmen...

Great to see this Irish News review of Radijo dokumentika's 'Coming Out'.

Listen on the Radio Atlas podcast or on the LRT website www.radioatlas.org/coming-out/

Radio review: A beautiful, heartbreaking story of forbidden love

Make time for this gem about a love story in Lithuania

www.irishnews.com

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Radio Atlas @radioatlas.bsky.social · Feb 16

Listen to the documentary here (or download it on the podcast) www.radioatlas.org/coming-out/

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Radio Atlas @radioatlas.bsky.social · Feb 16

“By far the most moving and absorbing piece of audio I heard last week was on Radio Atlas…”

Such a joy to see this @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social Observer review of Rūta Dambravaitė and Inga Janiulytė-Temporin’s ‘Coming Out’!

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

The week in audio: Coming Out; The Great Post Office Trial; The Teen Commandments – review

A Lithuanian gay romance that will move you to tears; Nick Wallis continues his dogged coverage of the Post Office inquiry; and it’s early days for Sara Cox and Clare Hamilton’s new parenting podcast

www.theguardian.com

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Radio Atlas @radioatlas.bsky.social · Feb 14

It was the first time Vitalius held Albinas’ hand in public. Twenty-one thousand people signed the certificate as witnesses – a document which Vitalius has now handed over to the national museum. www.radioatlas.org/coming-out/

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Radio Atlas @radioatlas.bsky.social · Feb 14

Lithuania currently does not recognise same sex marriages or civil unions. After ‘Coming Out‘ aired on radio, its online version quickly became the most shared and streamed episode in the show’s history. It led to activists organising a symbolic humanist wedding ceremony for Vitalius and Albinas…

A photo of Vitalius and Albinas’ symbolic wedding ceremony, taken by Justinas Stacevičius for LRT

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Radio Atlas @radioatlas.bsky.social · Feb 14

A tender love story, lived in private, across five decades… listen to Coming Out, made by Rūta Dambravaitė and Inga Janiulytė-Temporin for LRT, on the Radio Atlas podcast… www.radioatlas.org/coming-out/

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Radio Atlas @radioatlas.bsky.social · Feb 10

…and led to activists organising a symbolic humanist wedding ceremony for Vitalius and Albinas. It was the first time Vitalius held Albinas’ hand in public. Twenty-one thousand people signed the certificate as witnesses – a document which Vitalius has now handed over to the national museum.

A picture of Vitalius and Albinas on the day of the ceremony, one wears a black suit, the other a white one, they are tenderly touching each others hands.

Photo by Justinas Stacevičius/LRT

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Radio Atlas @radioatlas.bsky.social · Feb 10

Lithuania currently does not recognise either same sex marriages or civil unions. After Coming Out aired on Lithuanian radio, its online version quickly became the most shared and streamed episode in the show’s history. It reopened a public debate on human rights… www.radioatlas.org/coming-out/

Radio Atlas

Radio Atlas is an English-language home for subtitled audio from around the world.

www.radioatlas.org

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Radio Atlas @radioatlas.bsky.social · Feb 10

Vitalius and Albinas have been together for 52 years. As they grow old and Albinas’ memory slowly fades, Vitalius is tired of hiding and decides to tell their life story publicly for the first time. This documentary, created for LRT’s Radijo dokumentika, unspools the years they’ve spent together…

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