Theme: Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Bonus: Incorporate a door knocking sound

Producer and storyteller, Diana Opong embarks on her first KCRW Radio Race (2021). In her piece, she reflects on experiencing feeling othered (Seattle freeze) and how she seeks out warmth when she doesn’t feel welcome in spaces where she lives or creates.

CREDITS:
Written by: Diana Opong
Edited by: Diana Opong & Keabra O.
Mixed & Recorded by: Diana Opong
Ending Music Written and Composed by: Brittany DeMarre
https://brittanydemarre.com/

Special thanks to: Keabra O., Renee B-L., Megan H., Stephan P., Eva O., Patricia O., Josephine O. and Anjuli S.

Additional Thanks to: Celine Teo-Blockey, Kristin Leong, Kyle Norris, Gregg Porter, @KANtext, Andrea Gutierrez, Elena Rivera, and Kelsey Tolchin-Kupferer for encouragement

Extra special thanks to the entire KCRW Team for this fun challenge, and to all the judges, thank you for listening to my work!

Website: https://www.dotellmedia.com/

Where I Belong: Diana Opong's KCRW's 9th Annual 24-Hour Radio Race Final (v2)

This piece was produced entirely by Jude Brewer as part of KCRW’s 24-Hour Radio Race

BUZZY

Scientist Dr Jennifer Phillips shares how Alzheimer’s Disease has transformed her mother, a former dance professional; and how as they’ve aged, their once fraught relationship has also shifted.

Beginning with an 80th birthday gift of a pearl necklace which triggers a deep and delightful memory, Jen's recollections reveal Brenda’s vivid life in the arts, and become a reflection on women's worth, whether mothers, artists, daughters, or elders.

This work may not be reproduced or broadcast without permission.

Producer/ editor/ sound design: Michelle Ransom-Hughes (Twitter: @ransomhughes)
Featuring: Dr Jennifer Phillips (Twitter: @clutchscience)
Recitation: Sally Armstrong
Archival recordings of Brenda: Mamie Smith
With thanks to Beau at GoldenLab Studios, Oregon; and Dylan Ransom-Hughes at Alongside Radio

Music used under licence: Sound of Picture, NeoSounds, Person B
Freesound.org: Tim.Khan and Norris123

Image: Cristian Palmer/ Unsplash

Rich and Strange: a Daughter, her Mother and Alzheimer's

In the summer of 2021, an art installation called An English Garden was planted in Gunners Park, Southend. This neatly tended flower bed, planted with Rosa floribunda - Atom Bomb - roses, along with wooden benches and plaques drew a connection between this site in Essex and the Montebello Islands off Western Australia where Britain tested its first atomic weapon on the 3rd of October 1952. The work issued a gentle invitation for visitors to reflect on Britain’s “historical and ongoing identity as a colonial nuclear state”.

Britain tested twelve full scale atomic weapons and conducted hundreds of ‘minor trials’ on Australian soil between 1952 and 1963, as well as further tests off Kiritimati (Christmas Island), a colony of Britain at the time in the south Pacific.

Seventy years on from that first atomic test, former servicemen and their families, Pacific islanders and indigenous communities in Australia, are still living in the shadow of these bombs.

This first of five episodes traces the events leading up to Britain’s first atomic detonation, codenamed Operation Hurricane, with investigative journalist Susie Boniface, author and researcher Dr Elizabeth Tynan and the artist Gabriella Hirst who continues to propagate Atom Bomb roses through grafting workshops and talks.

The series is presented by Steve Purse whose late father, Flight Lieutenant David Purse, served at Maralinga, South Australia in 1963.

First broadcast 14th October 2022, BBC Radio 4
Includes music by Barney Morse-Brown (aka Duotone)
Produced by Hannah Dean with assistance from Michael Bromage and Dimity Hawkins
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
(Photograph courtesy of Steve Purse.)

Fallout: Living in the Shadow of the Bomb - Sub Rosa (Under the Rose) 1/5

// early experiments with epoch modular eurorack version of rob hordijk's benjolin.

// unmixed, unmastered, work in progress.

severence // benjolin drone IV

striped marsh frogs/northern banjo frog/aquatic life
wet season in the kroombit mountains, qld
february, 2016

Rich and Strange: a Daughter, her Mother and Alzheimer's

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