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Falling Tree Productions

@fallingtreeprod.bsky.social

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We make documentaries and audio art for radio, podcasts and public spaces. Our free archive of more than 900 documentaries is available at - www.fallingtree.co.uk

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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · Jun 16

At the heart of what we do remains a belief in radio's imaginative possibilities - audio that can reconfigure the world around us & sink into our dreams.

Dip into our archive of nearly 900 audio docs here www.fallingtree.co.uk/our-archive/

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Maj Duckworth | Trice @majduckworth.bsky.social · May 28

Posting one unique, inspiring or experimental sound piece a day
Day 25: How to Remember by Axel Kacoutié

A poetic, immersive meditation on identity, memory, and belonging

🥇 2022 Third Coast Audio Festival
#SonicWonders #audiosky

🔗 www.thirdcoastfestival.org/feature/how-...

How to Remember

Sound-rich audio stories from around the world, galore!

www.thirdcoastfestival.org

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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you for sharing this! Saw Angie Zelter was arrested again recently… novaramedia.com/2025/09/07/p...

“Several elderly women ranging in age from 66 to 78 told Novara Media that they felt a “duty” as the older generation to put themselves on the line in Saturday’s action. Veteran peace activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Angie Zelter, 74, told Novara Media that she thought the police were “just hoping we all go away – but most of us are quite old and we’re determined to stay… to put pressure on this government to stop aiding and abetting genocide”.

Zelter said footage of elderly people being dragged away shows the public that “there’s something very broken about our society”.”

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Maj Duckworth | Trice @majduckworth.bsky.social · 8d

Beautiful piece from @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social and more important than ever

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Maj Duckworth | Trice @majduckworth.bsky.social · 8d

Posting one unique, inspiring or experimental sound piece when I can

The Night Sky from Lights Out

Elder activists reflect on protest, purpose and perseverance. A moving piece about ageing, hope, and the fight for change

Produced by Eleanor McDowall

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Lights Out - Series 5 - The Night Sky - BBC Sounds

Three activists in their 70s reflect on keeping going, hope and despair.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · 17d

sound fields, a journal about the art + practice of documentary audio that i make w/ many brilliant folks just launched its second issue. The subject: archives. i wrote something for it about how to save the truth, we must all become archivists for the future: www.soundfields.org/02-letter-fr...

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I tell you this story because I think so often we encounter archives when we are liminal, when we are in between. When we are moving or searching for ourselves or for the truth in the past, sometimes in our own past. When we are looking for a way home. It turns out teetering towards fascism is beyond liminal. If a liminal space is a train station, we seem to all be collectively in limbo, unending uncertainty on the lip of hell. In a haze of epistemological dissonance we witness the shredding of the past through a looking glass so cracked that even the history repeating itself is unrecognizable.

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Melanie Henwood @melanie-henwood.bsky.social · 24d

A joy to listen to #WhereTheDistanceShimmers A
Eulogy to Route 66, poetic, lyrical, nostalgic
@ladymissbarton.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Illuminated, Where the Distance Shimmers

Laura Barton reflects on the shifting identity of Route 66.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 26d

“Nuanced, layered and poetic…” tomorrow night’s BBC Radio 4 Illuminated ‘Where the Distance Shimmers’ is @radiotimes.bsky.social documentary pick of the week www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Presented by @ladymissbarton.bsky.social
Produced by Alan Hall

A photo of the Radio Times magazine pick of the week for Where the Distance Shimmers on BBC Radio 4. The text reads “Route 66, the 2,448-mile highway from Chicago to Santa Monica in the United States was decommissioned 40 years ago, killing off many of the towns along the ‘mother road’ with it. This documentary from Laura Barton (the woman behind Radio 4’s Notes on Music) is a nuanced, layered and poetic take on the route and the nostalgia surrounding the idea of the American West. Interviewees include 98-year-old Angel Delgadillo, who helped secure the road’s historic status back in 1987. He does still get his kicks from Route 66 - even if that’s by talking to tourists and journalists.”

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Multitrack @multitrack.bsky.social · 28d

Friends of MT & regular helper Jesse Lawson and @inthedarkradio.bsky.social are running Interviewing MAGIC

A 6-week short course on creative + ethical interviewing for audio. Early/mid-career folks, this is for you

📅 14 Oct – 18 Nov 2025
📍 Online via Zoom

www.inthedarkradio.org/interviewing...

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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 29d

Would simply love to read perspectives on the audio industry in 2025 that don't emerge from an utterly loveless relationship with the medium.

Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 29d

Reading this silly quote and thinking of the brilliant @tomhumberstone.com zine I'm a Luddite (and So Can You!) thenib.com/im-a-luddite/

Having a critical approach to the tech you make things with (& its impact on labour rights) doesn't mean you can't understand how to use your iPhone or whatever!

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Abigail Wincott @abigailwincott.bsky.social · Sep 5

@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/

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 …

www.uowoajournals.org

Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · Sep 4

You can listen to Dust on the Lights Out podcast - podfollow.com/1659058879

Lights Out

Documentary adventures that encourage you to take a closer listen.

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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · Sep 4

Delighted to see Dust - from our Lights Out podcast - featured in Aesthetica Festival’s first ever official audio selection

Drawing on ideas in his book, On Time and Water, @andrimagnason.bsky.social and the artist Katie Paterson explore how our imagination can help us hold the moment we live in

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Written In Air @writteninair.bsky.social · Aug 30

Your weekend listening is all right here:

writteninair.substack.com/s/written-in...

Or here:

writteninair.bandcamp.com/album/issue-...

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · Aug 26

At about 4.10pm on this day 54 years ago, something weird started happening on Scottish Television. There was no announcement, and no credit was given to the person who had created them, but strange short films suddenly started popping up in the schedules youtu.be/AA9IdHtHk_0?...

A TV screen showing a tap gushing water in such a way that it appears to be filling up the TV set

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AIR (Association of Independents in Radio) @airmedia.bsky.social · Aug 29

🚨 Calling all AIR audio makers! 🚨 From daily news shows to sonic experiments, if you made it—we want to feature it in AIR’s Listening Booth.

🎧 Submit here: ow.ly/4kBF50WOgI0

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · Aug 29

I'll be in #London next week with @toritsui.bsky.social, @tessakhan.bsky.social, @lucasamin.bsky.social, and more talking about how the fossil fuel industry has harnessed culture vs climate action, and how to wrestle it back. Come join us!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/earth-perc...

Earth Percent & Climate Spring present: The Real Story Behind Big Oil

An exclusive opportunity to hear award-winning investigative journalist Amy Westervelt expose the tactics and propaganda of Big Oil.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · Aug 21

“The chat shows are entertaining. They fill up my bathroom with agreeable noise when I’m showering, but often I wonder if I’ve turned myself into a grown-up iPad toddler, unable to cope with the silence of being alone, or to train my attention span on something…” defector.com/the-future-o...

The Future Of Podcasting Is Here, And It Sucks | Defector

This week, Left of Dial published its Essential Listening Poll, a compilation of the 100 best podcasts of all time, according to industry creators, writers, and scholars. (Disclosure: I was invited to...

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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · Aug 21

“Capitalist goonery aside, what stands out to me now, standing on the other side of a popped bubble, is the distinct lack of creative ambition in the industry…”

@alexlaughs.bsky.social is such a thoughtful writer about the many cursed aspects of this industry and the forces driving them

Alex Sujong Laughlin @alexlaughs.bsky.social · Aug 21

There have been a ton of 20th anniversary "best of" podcast lists lately, and it has started to feel a bit like an obituary for an industry.

[gift link] defector.com/the-future-o...

The Future Of Podcasting Is Here, And It Sucks | Defector

This week, Left Of Dial published its Essential Listening Poll, a compilation of the 100 best podcasts of all time, according to industry creators, writers, and scholars (Disclosure: I was invited to ...

defector.com

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Transom @transom.bsky.social · Aug 20

Back in 2023, @rob-rosenthal.bsky.social interviewed Alan Hall of @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social about the idea of abstract, non-narrated audio stories.

The two of them dissect their own approaches to making audio. It's a fascinating conversation that questions the very nature of this form.

Lean In and Listen Like It’s Music

Lean In and Listen Like It’s Music - Transom

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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · Aug 19

You can see the full list here: www.leftofdialmedia.com/essential-li...

Essential Listening Poll - The 100 Greatest Podcasts of All Time — Left of Dial Media

The 100 Greatest Podcasts of All Time

www.leftofdialmedia.com

Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · Aug 19

Touched to see @josielong.bsky.social’s Short Cuts in the top twenty of this list voted by audio creators!

Thank you to everyone who voted and for the kind words about the series!

www.leftofdialmedia.com/elp-shortcuts

Voted number 17, the text reads “BBC Short Cuts is a quietly dazzling mosaic of miniature documentaries—curated with elegance and curiosity, it celebrates the art of the short form, where fleeting moments and eccentric voices are stitched together into something unexpectedly profound.”

The text reads, “"Short Cuts is a gem of a show. The beauty and delight of this show was in discovering the power of storytelling sound, in short form. The pieces on this variety show ranged in style and format -- but were always transporting. Podcasting could use more shows like this, especially in this age of video takeover. This show proves the merit of audio as its own art form."

- Leital Molad, WaitWhat”

The text reads “Short Cuts is a jewel box of audio storytelling—curated with elegance and emotional precision by Josie Long, it brings together miniature documentaries, sound art, and personal reflections into thematic meditations that feel both expansive and intimate. Each episode is a carefully assembled collage, where form is as important as content, and where the boundaries of nonfiction are gently, creatively blurred. With its lyrical sensibility and global scope, Short Cuts stands as a testament to the expressive possibilities of radio—an anthology that celebrates the fragment, the fleeting, and the deeply felt, all in under thirty minutes.”

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · Aug 18

Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign here:

tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign

Open letter BBC Written Archives - August 2025

Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre The following text is an open letter expressing the concern of historians and researchers about chan...

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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · Aug 11

You after Pick of the Week or the full doc? Angry and Young can be heard here in our free archive - m.soundcloud.com/fallingtreep...

Angry and Young

Stream Angry and Young by Falling Tree Productions on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · Aug 10

A short clip from Angry and Young, produced by Alan Hall for Radio 4’s Artworks series, airs in Pick of the Week tonight… listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · Aug 5

With playwrights Dawn King and Georgia Bruce, director Atri Banerjee and Cress Brown of Cutting the Tightrope.

Produced by Alan Hall
Mixed by @mikemixes.bsky.social

Listen at 4pm today - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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