A Celebration of Stories told Through Sound.

  • In The Dark in The Spectator

    A substantial mention of In The Dark in the Spectator this week following the broadcast of Short Cuts on Radio 4 (presented by our Director Nina Garthwaite)! Read here >>

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  • Issue #2 of the In The Dark Friends’ Newsletter out today!

    With an exclusive sneak preview into Sean Street’s forthcoming publication, The Poetry of Radio: The Colour of Sound, an even more exclusive chance to win your very own copy of the book (worth £80) in the very classy “guess that sound” competition, plus a spotlight on Czech audio, the latest dispatch from ITD Sydney and […]

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  • In The Air #2

    << Back to Newsletter Contents In The Dark’s Connor Walsh puts out his antennae to bring us a round up of audio news from around the world! This Autumn Connor recaps the quarter’s events, picks out some online developments, and  looks forward to another big event in London this year… In last month’s Friends of […]

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  • Dispatch from Down Under

    << Back to Newsletter Contents Page The last two Sydney events have worked closely with FBi’s All the Best. In this recording of the Q&A at the St Stephen’s Church, Mike Williams talks to All The Best’s Jesse Cox about the programme. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Unfortunately we cannot post up the […]

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  • Poetry of Radio Competition!

    << Back to Newsletter Contents Page We have a winner! Professor Emeritus Seán Street kindly donated a copy of his brand-new book to share with his fellow Friends, and we devised a little competition. It’s now closed, as we have a winer (Wait! We’ll tell you… soon). Feel free to try your hand at the […]

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  • The Mystery of the Invisible

    << Back to Newsletter Contents Page Sean Street shares an extract from his forthcoming book: The Poetry of Radio – The Colour of Sound In its earliest manifestations, ‘wireless’ transmissions were greeted with a sense of awe by maker and audience alike. On Christmas Eve, 1906, the Canadian inventor Reginald Fessenden conducted an experiment from […]

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