This mini-feature is a scripted piece made for BBC Radio 3's Between the Ears.

The Phonophobe13.09

Organs are very public instruments, huge examples found in churches and theatres. But once Hammond invented their electronic version in the thirties, the organ found a place in the home.

Electronic organs became enormously popular; as affordable as pianos, featured on TV game
shows, and often bought by people with no musical experience. By the 1970s there were dozens of
manufacturers, organ societies in most UK towns, and thousands of models hidden away in average homes. The technology advanced to provide easy-to-play features and a whole palette of tones. Fashion designer Wayne Hemingway is fascinated by this secret world of exotic sounds swirling around British living rooms of the 60s, 70s and 80s.

The easy-play electronic keyboard or organ has often been ridiculed (memorably by Not the Nine O'Clock News). Comedian Graham Fellows, aka John Shuttleworth, explains why he finds it so funny.

The scene largely died in the 1980s, leaving countless organs behind - now nearly free on
Ebay. But a few organ societies still exist and we meet Brett Wales, a young superstar of the scene whose instrument sounds like a full orchestra. And then there's 79 year old Tom Baker who finds near-daily solace in his Technics 5000.

They are easy to dismiss as kitsch, naff and only for ironic enjoyment, but the home organ was, for many, home entertainment which brought people together in a way TV and ipads don't.

The programme also includes James Taylor of the James Taylor Quartet and Nigel Ogden, presenter of Radio 2's The Organist Entertains.

First broadcast on 10th June 2014 BBC Radio 4
Presented by Wayne Hemingway
Produced by Peregrine Andrews

Wayne's Secret World Of The Organ

March 2015 Kaitlin Prest from the Radiotopia podcast The Heart visited Københavns Radiobiograf (Copenhagen Radio Cinema). At two sold out shows Kaitlin played various pieces from Audiosmut and The Heart. The day after she gave an inspiring artist talk at Cafe Nutid. This is the entire talk. The questions from the audience are difficult to hear and a bit noisy because of the single microphone recording.

Artist Talk: Kaitlin Prest, Cph. 13.03.2015

In 1931, during the Depression, an unknown young black woman took her new-born son to a Pittsburgh orphanage. And so began jazz pianist Horace Parlan´s life. At the age of five, he was struck by polio and lost the use of three fingers on his right hand, yet somehow, against the odds, he managed a long career as a professional musician. Now, aged 84, he lives in a nursing home outside Copenhagen, Denmark.

His journey through life was always guided by music – and still is. From the spirituals of his upbringing to his experiences as a musician in 1960’s New York City. Then, in 1972, he moved to Denmark and joined Ben Webster, Dexter Gordon, Oscar Pettiford and other Afro-American jazz musicians who had found a haven there during those turbulent years. Most of his colleagues left, but Horace stayed, marrying a Danish woman, Norma, with whom he shared his life for 37 years.

Despite his disability Horace found his own sound as a pianist and played with some of the biggest names – Charles Mingus and Archie Shepp among them. But now, blind for eight years, wheelchair-bound and widowed two years ago, he spends his days in a small coastal town outside Copenhagen. His long piano fingers are stiff - he no longer plays - but he spends every day surrounded by music and looks forward to regular trips to Copenhagen’s legendary Montmartre Jazz Club. Rikke Houd presents a portrait of Horace Parlan.

First broadcast 14th July 2015, BBC World Service
Produced by Rikke Houd

A Portrait of Horace Parlan

Choices is a radio documentary series on Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting.
The first Episode is about personal choices and personal will

Choices - Episode #1 - Person

En ganske tilfældig fredag aften, i et skur i Jonas' mors have, får en flok teenagere en rigtig dårlig idé. Det lugter af brændt kød, fællesskab og ungdom.

Brændt I Sydhavnen

Feat. Oliver Hoiness
Mix & mastering: Jonas Graverholt
Indspillet i Aalborg januar 2016
Tak til Michael Marino og Huset i Hasserisgade

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I DAG GÅR DET NED

livet går og op ned
de sidste fire dage gik det op 
masser af matches, bunker af likes, endeløse baner af lidt af hvert og alt for meget rock

i dag går det ned
men det OK jeg er polstret nok til det
jeg skal ha gjort rent og ringet til kommunen
jeg regner ik med at det blir lige foreløbig at jeg rammer bunden

livet går op og ned
for til sidst at gå helt ned
under gulvbrædderne
og det kun sund skepsis at spørge sig selv, forældrene og vennerne
hvorfor man så skal blive ved
men vent lige lidt med det

for i dag går det ned
ned i kælderen 
og den er nok ik det bedste sted til den slags spørgsmål
lissom kældermennesker ik er de sjoveste at filosofere med
du ka ligge i månedsvis 
før du endelig har fundet ud hvordan man får blændet op for det lange lys

livet går til højre og til venstre
løber om hjørnerne med dig
det springer op og falder ned
som en trold af en æske
som en nytårsgæst der fulder rundt og starter
året med champagne ud over det hele og et forstuvet håndled

i dag går det ned
hva fuck sker der
hvorn fik jeg tømt alle flaskerne
hvorn fik jeg omhyggeligt knækket alle stænglerne og bladene på stueplanterne 
jeg ska ha købt billetter, jeg skal bare væk herfra
ud af mørket og op i himlen
få lidt sol på mit hoved
og se det hele ovenfra

tempoet går op og ned
melodien har sat sig fast
ordene nægter at komme
DR's bigband er blevet hyret ind og vil forsøge at peppe det op med lidt happy jazz
kom så drenge gi den gas

i dag går det ned
jeg kan mærke det i knoglerne
beklager baby, der er bare ikke mere at gi af
hjertet kører på pumperne
lykken ligger omme på bagsædet og sover rusen ud
og skal ikke nyde noget af en dag som i dag

I Dag Går Det Ned

Den Sorte Skole - Lektion III

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Børn og unge fortæller om deres liv i Mjølnerparkens 2. gård. En af flere produktion til GHETTOBLASTERs audiowalks, der giver en rundvisning i børnehøjde i 3 boligområder på Ydre Nørrebro - Områder der mest er kendt i offentligheden for det negative: Mjølnerparken, Aldersrogade og Titanparken. Kom bag om murene og lyt til historierne.

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Bænken - Mjølnerparkens 2. gård

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