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Lisa Hack @hackista.bsky.social · Mar 27

You can listen to it on BBC Sounds if you missed it.

Goldsmiths, University of London @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social · Mar 25

Friends of The Wall, a documentary by @mediacomgold.bsky.social Evan Green, profiles the volunteers who maintain the Covid Memorial Wall in Westminster.

Broadcast again for BBC Radio 4's New Storytellers, marking 5 years since the start of the Covid lockdowns www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - New Storytellers, Friends of the Wall

They’ve painted over 200,000 red hearts on a huge wall in the heart of Westminster. Why?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Media, Communications & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths @mediacomgold.bsky.social · Jan 31

Adam Curtis masterclass: 11 Feb 5-7pm

The BAFTA-award winning filmaker's (Century of the Self, Hypernormalisation) favourite theme is "power and how it works in society"

Clips and conversation with MCCS lecturer Leah Borromeo.

Free, details here: www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

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Media, Communications & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths @mediacomgold.bsky.social · Jan 31

🔥 🏁 12 Feb, 5:30pm: Free screening of new doc on Pauline Black's life history: on the 2-Tone music movement, working-class life in Thatcher's Britain racism, gender, adoption and cities.

With Q+A w Pauline Black, Prof Julian Henriques & Prof Nirmal Puwar!

www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · Jan 20

It is already 45 minutes longer than the shortest day and by the end of January it will be 1 hour 15 minutes longer than the shortest day.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · Jan 21

The TfL Go app just got smarter 📲

Londoners will soon be able to check for real-time travel info, view their account journey history, and apply for refunds on the go—all in one app.

With over 8M downloads and 1M monthly users, it’s set to make travelling in London easier than ever.

TfL Go app upgrade will help commuters get refunds for dreaded Tube 'card clash'

Improved TfL Go app will allow TfL to phase out Oyster and Contactless app

www.standard.co.uk

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R Freeman @iamrobf.bsky.social · Jan 16

Applications for BBC Sounds Audio Lab 2025 are open.

If you're an #audio creator with a great podcast idea that needs to be heard you should apply.

The best of them study at Goldsmiths in London!
@mediacomgold.bsky.social @goldsmithsaudio.bsky.social

More details: bbc.co.uk/audiolab

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Sounddelivery Media @sounddeliverymedia.bsky.social · Jan 19

🎙️What’s on our radar? BBC Sounds Audio Lab is back for its fourth year, taking on a new cohort of audio creators who want to tell the untold stories that deserve to be heard. Find out more and apply by 11th February. That & more in our Jan newsletter:

Jude's Big Swim Challenge & more in our January Update

buff.ly

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Media, Communications & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths @mediacomgold.bsky.social · Jan 17

Congratulations to our MCCS students who are graduating today! We are so proud of you all 🎉

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Lisa Hack @hackista.bsky.social · Jan 18

Tomorrow night work by @goldsmithsaudio.bsky.social Alum Sam Stone on BBC Radio 4 @mediacomgold.bsky.social

Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · Jan 18

Tomorrow night at 7.15pm, listen out for 'Anger and Us' produced by Sam Stone.

Radio choice in the @radiotimes.bsky.social and this weekend's @financialtimes.com www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A photograph of the Radio Times choice for Anger and Us

A photograph of the Financial Times preview for Anger and Us

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Cat Blackard 🌈🌴✨ @catblackard.bsky.social · Jan 16

SAVE AUDIO DRAMA ON THE BBC (a 🧵) "The BBC [is] completely eradicating audio drama from Radio 3. This change will see not only essential jobs and employment opportunities for creative workers slashed, but programming of new material and new performers totally gone." chng.it/qpZHKDxHZD 1/4

Sign the Petition

Save Audio Drama at the BBC

chng.it

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Marta Medvešek @martatlon.bsky.social · Dec 16

As someone who really, really enjoyed retreat #1, I strongly encourage Europe-based audio people to apply and treat themselves with an inspiring & uplifting time - especially if you're a freelancer like me. 👋

the-ecco.bsky.social @the-ecco.bsky.social · Dec 15

CALLING ON AUDIO STORY CREATORS ACROSS EUROPE!! The time has come. We’re putting together Round 02 of THE ECCO. For more info check out www.theecco.org/round2-sprin...

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Radio Boot Camp @radiobootcamp.bsky.social · Dec 16

Happy Monday! Check out this list of shows & production companies that accept freelance pitches for segments and episodes from @willcoley.bsky.social!

PITCHING to English-language radio/podcast shows & production companies

docs.google.com

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Julie Shapiro @jatomic.bsky.social · Dec 16

Here we go! Hope you'll consider supporting this little audio engine that can. And has. And will! Especially with your help.

Audio Flux @audioflux.bsky.social · Dec 16

HELP US FLUX MORE IN 2025! Love hearing short audio gems from all over? Your support will help us run Circuits 05 & 06, launch the Audio Flux Podcast, and build AF into a permanent home for innovative storytelling. We have big plans! Donate here, big thanks:
www.documentaries.org/films/audio-...

Green square with Audio Flux mascot in right corner and QR code in left corner reads: AUDIO FLUX WINTER FUNDRAISER! (FLUXRAISER) SMALL AUDIO. BIG IMPACT. HELP US POWER ANOTHER YEAR OF SHORT-FORM, INNOVATIVE AUDIO!!

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · Dec 13

Are you a composer? #BeachOfDreams are commissioning a 40-minute piece for their artwork.

Apply by 13 January.

Call-out: Beach of Dreams Composer

We’re looking for a freelance composer to create an electro-acoustic score to be used at a number of Beach of Dreams events next year, forming an evocative backdrop for a site-specific promenade dance...

beachofdreams.org

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Mariana J López @marianajlopez.bsky.social · Dec 9

My book 'Sonic Pasts: acoustical heritage and historical soundscapes' is now available to pre-order 😊 www.routledge.com/Sonic-Pasts-...

Book cover design that says 'Sonic Pasts: acoustical heritage and historical soundscapes' At the centre we see a circle formed by swirly colour bands and different outlines of people, objects and places, such as a desert landscape, a diver, Stonehenge and Notre Dame. At the bottom it says Mariana J López. The book cover is yellow with dark purple font.

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Lisa Hack @hackista.bsky.social · Dec 10

How can the documentary process be a helping one - rather than harmful?

Christina is an award-winning freelance audio producer & artist working creatively in the field of documentary.

An online masterclass from multitrack.uk
Friday 13th Dec 4pm-5.30pm.
Pay what you can

shorturl.at/osjCf

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Dec 9

Rupert Murdoch loses battle to control succession to his media empire

Media mogul’s three adult children will retain control despite his bid to give his son Lachlan complete control Rupert Murdoch’s three adult children will retain control over their father’s media empire upon his death, despite Murdoch launching a…

www.theguardian.com

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Lisa Hack @hackista.bsky.social · Dec 8

An imperfect photo capturing the moment perfectly.

I brought the multitrack fellows into @goldsmithsaudio.bsky.social main studio along with Alumni for a taster in live radio skills.

Over 80% of the UK population still listen to radio, having the productions skills for it is still valuable.

6 people in the control room of an audio studio. Person in fron is laughing. They are in an orange tee shirt. To their left a woman with long pink hair is looking focused at the mixing desk which is unseen. On the far right a person is clicking their fingers with delight and 3 other people in the background are celebrating the end of a successful ‘as live’ radio show.

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · Dec 5

Today's #LentoAdvent theme is...

🐝 small 🍃

Sunsets and forests are all very well but noticing the small things brings us the most joy. What did you notice in nature this year? What small joys filled you? Maybe a colourful leaf or a single bird singing?

Please add alt text so everyone can join in.

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Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · Dec 4

“As some of the companies still making money in podcasting work to convince audiences that what they really want is just “audio content,” we are asserting ourselves as audio documentarians.”

@audiosand.bsky.social and I getting polemical in @transom.bsky.social today!
transom.org/2024/sound-f...

A Sound Fields Manifesto - Transom

transom.org

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Lisa Hack @hackista.bsky.social · Nov 25

I wonder if that happened to me too. I had a flourish of new followers.

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Lisa Hack @hackista.bsky.social · Nov 25

I follow you on the other place!

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Lisa Hack @hackista.bsky.social · Nov 20

This is exactly why Shortcuts is needed. Ben is an alum of @mediacomgold.bsky.social

Ben Tulloh @bentulloh.bsky.social · Nov 20

Terrible news - my first radio commissions were two docs made for Shortcuts. They were patient, encouraging and let us make two really weird mini docs, they also paid us decent money to make them.

Here's one about Charles 'Tuna' Chapman the first black person to swim the channel 👇

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Ben Tulloh @bentulloh.bsky.social · Nov 20

Terrible news - my first radio commissions were two docs made for Shortcuts. They were patient, encouraging and let us make two really weird mini docs, they also paid us decent money to make them.

Here's one about Charles 'Tuna' Chapman the first black person to swim the channel 👇

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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · Nov 20

After 12 years on the radio, @josielong.bsky.social's Short Cuts will have its last series on BBC Radio 4 this winter.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Against a backdrop of a forest carpeted with bluebells, a block of text reads, “After 12 years on the radio, we’re sad to share the news that BBC Radio 4 has chosen to end Short Cuts.

The episode on 7th January 2025 will be our last on their airwaves.

We are proud of this audio garden, and what has grown here over the years.”

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