The rise in popularity of podcasts has prompted many to call this the second golden age of radio. Yet for many listeners creative audio is an art form without an accessible history. In this session In The Dark’s Director, Nina Garthwaite, will play clips from some influential audio works you’re unlikely to have heard. She […]
We’re delighted that the legendary radio producer Steve Wadhams is in London and will be joining us for an evening of listening in The Bell pub in London. He’ll be curating audio from the work that has inspired him as well as playing some of his own pieces. Born in England in 1945, Steve […]
This is the last of the current series of In the Dark collaborations with the Grant Museum of Zoology, a yearlong collaboration celebrating the natural world through sound… and it promises to be a big one. Like many natural history museums across the world the Grant Museum of Zoology has a specimen of a whale. […]
We’re back at the British Library in July celebrating another hero of radio past, Nesta Pain. If you’ve not heard Pain’s work before this is not to be missed! Moving to London in 1942 from Birkenhead, the writer/producer began her BBC career in the wartime Features Department, becoming one of its outstanding members. Initially known […]
In July we’re at the London Transport Museum for their forthcoming late event: “Come Out To Play”. The evening will draw inspiration from the illustrated posters in their exhibition Sounds of the City. We have looted the archives to bring audio from radio, podcasts and sound art that explore urban soundscapes, past and present. In […]
In June we’ll be teaming up with our new friends Poet In the City for the Poetry and Lyrics festival at King’s Place. We’ll be creating a specially curated selection of audio exploring the poetry and musicality of spoken word which can be heard throughout the 2 day festival. We also highly recommend checking […]