BBC R4 - Arthur Cares - Episode two - Kash

A spatial audio pilot about the mysterious death of Fred Petrus, who produced  some of the greatest italo disco records of the 1980s

Spatial Audio Pilot For Audible about the death of Fred Petrus

“I am not Nicholas Rossi!” gasps Arthur Knight through an oxygen mask in March 2022. Recently discharged from a Covid ward in Glasgow, he's in a wheelchair. The police say he’s Nicholas Rossi, suspected of faking his death and wanted for rape in Utah. The story makes headlines globally. When journalist Jane MacSorley meets Arthur Knight and his wife Miranda, she thinks the police have made a mistake. She embarks on a yearlong investigation, making a unique discovery which changes everything.

Listen to the full series at Audible UK - shorturl.at/mtWY3

Audible series - I Am Not Nicholas

A short clip from the Audible series the Healing Power of Nature featuring the underwater recordings of Chris Watson and the music of Laraaji. Presented by Dr Alex Smalley you can listen to the full series here - https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/The-Healing-Power-of-Nature/B0CLVVLF7T

Exerpt From The Healing Power Of Nature

Radio 4 - Tom Isaacs on his search for a cure for Parkinson's Disease. He was diagnosed with the disease when he was 27. Made by me. 

Chasing a Cure | Radio 4

Hidden away, beneath old newspapers, books of stamps and expectant sellotape lie the best pieces of work. They are the Darlings. The stories, the ornaments, the gems we are told to cut. It's a rule of writing passed around like an illegal cigarette. You must murder your darlings. Producers, script writers, authors, editors have all had the rule thrown at them. These scenes may be fantastically written, funny, evocative…but they don’t belong, they obscure the plot, blind us from the truth. But what if these anecdotes had a programme to themselves? What if you could bring those Darlings back to life ? 


BBC R4 - Bring Your Darlings Back To Life

In the first of a two-part series, journalist and broadcaster Matt Everitt talks to record executives, industry insiders, artists and fans about the decisions that have transformed the record industry.


The Business Of Music

In Autumn 2016, Reading prison opened to the public for the first time for an Artangel project in which a 30-strong showcase of artists and writers share works in response to De Profundis. 

Oscar Wilde was incarcerated in Reading Prison between 1895 and 1897, enduring the Separate System, a harsh penal regime designed to eliminate any contact between prisoners. During this period he wrote one of his last great works: an extended letter to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas, later published as De Profundis.

The actor Stephen Rea returned to cell C.3.3 in HM Reading Prison to perform De Profundis. The reading was preceded by a feature documentary where writer and director Neil Bartlett examined the conditions under which Wilde was writing.

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Stephen Rea reads Oscar Wilde's De Profundis for BBC Radio 4

Music writer John Doran ventures into the strange world of Richard D James. Over the course of three decades James, known to his legion of hardcore fans as Aphex Twin, has achieved the primary but evasive aim of most serious musicians - the invention, exploration and curation of a truly unique and inimitable sound.

BBC R4 - The Cult Of Aphex Twin

Curator Naomi Beckwith continues the series exploring overlooked artists from the 20th century. Art history has been written from a white, western, male perspective. What if we could revise the canon? 

This episode features Ben Patterson.

An Alternative History of Art Ben Patterson

Episode one of New Ways of Seeing, a four-part radio series written and presented by James Bridle, and produced by Steve Urquhart and Reduced Listening for BBC Radio 4.

New Ways of Seeing

Dark forces gather in the VIP section of a top Miami nightclub. Contemporary drama by Sebastian Baczkiewicz recorded in America’s fastest-growing city for BBC Radio 4

Angel In Miami

Arthur is eleven, likes dinosaurs and plays the cello. Arthur's dad Babak is 40, an artist and a former musician. His most successful artistic endeavour was when he collected twigs and sold them on eBay for £62.

As his self-deprecating social media posts suggest, Babak Ganjei doesn't have the best outlook on life. He makes prints that state, "I'm in the bush and I really love you" and, "I regret the divorce." One exhibition is optimistically titled "Everything is really bad and it’s only going to get worse and this is the most perfect time".

Arthur thinks his Dad should go for more runs, worry less and get a cat. Arthur also thinks it’s time his Dad learned how to ride a bike.

In 2019, the importance of self-care is everywhere. Self-help books, wellness conferences and therapist offices - telling people how to help themselves is a significant business. For three weeks, Arthur’s 11-year-old mind imaginatively tries to fix his Dad’s life.

BBC R4 - Can my eleven year old fix my life?

A signalman on a remote railway line is visited by a traveller.
Written by Ross Sutherland, inspired by a Charles Dickens ghost story, with recordings by Chris Watson.

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