• A great night with the Hackney Podcast and many more to come!

    We had a really wonderful time last night with Francesca Panetta from the Hackney Podcast sharing with us her recent podcast “Night” as well as a few picks of radio and audio that have inspired her. There was a huge turnout with the upstairs at Passing Clouds packed with lots of new faces, as well […]

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  • 18th August 2010, 7.30pm In The Dark @ Passing Clouds featuring The Hackney Podcast

    On August 18th Francesca Panetta of the award-winning Hackney Podcast will be putting on the In The Dark curator’s cap and choosing a selection of audio and documentary features for your aural delight. The evening will include the works of Radiolab and Kaffe Matthews, as well as a close listening of The Hackney Podcast’s most […]

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  • Still stuffed with delicious food after In The Dark @ Home and plotting the next instalment!

    After a successful evening with Leo inspiring (and occasionally unsettling) our audience with his great selection of audio we received some really great comments and feedback… for those of you yet to take the plunge into the dark, we’ve posted a few of them below: “Utterly fantastic- I enjoyed it immensely- it’s so unique an […]

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  • Special Event: In The Dark at Home, 1st July, 7.30pm

    Bringing us back down to earth following the the glitz and glamour of our week at LIDF In The Dark will be holding a cosy event at a secret venue in South London on 1st July. Until now our events have all been in bars and cinemas, but this time we’re trying something different. We’ll […]

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  • Discussion: The Rebirth of Radio – Crafted Audio in the Digital Age

    The Courthouse Hotel Cinema, 1st May 2010, 3.00pm – 5.00pm, FREE Discussion with guests Tony Phillips (BBC World Service), Francesca Panetta (The Guardian, Hackney Podcast), Chris Brookes (Battery Radio), Nina Perry (UK) and Chaired by Alan Hall (Falling Tree Productions). Register here >>

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  • Little Woman: What Now? + Discussion with Berit Hedemann

    The Courthouse Hotel Cinema, 30th April 2010, 7.30pm – 9.30pm, £6.00/£8.00 A hymn to Pamela Anderson, the Norwegian economy and all the country’s 11 year old girls. From women’s magazine editors to a young bulimia sufferer, Berit Hedemann’s Little Woman explores the consequences of Norway’s oil-fuelled economic boom on its women. The piece provocatively cuts […]

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  • Songs My Mother Taught Me + Discussion with Chris Brookes

    The Courthouse Hotel Cinema, 1st May 2010, 7.30pm – 9.30pm, £8.00/£6.00 Chris Brookes’ personal style of feature-making can be heard at its most intriguing – and at times most uncomfortable – in this “documentary novel” about war brides – women, including his own mother, who married allied servicemen stationed in Britain during World War II. […]

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  • Melting Point + Discussion with Nina Perry

    The Courthouse Hotel Cinema, 29th April 2010, 7.30pm – 9.30pm, £8.00/£6.00 A composed feature by Nina Perry exploring the environmental, cultural and musical significance of the icy landscapes of Greenland, Iceland and the Highlands of Scotland. Featuring the words of an Icelandic writer, a Greenlandic fisherman, a drama therapist and an ice-climbing fiddle-playing mountain rescuer […]

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  • Review of In The Dark on Speechification

    “I’ve been saving this one up. Earlier this year I was asked (as a Representative of Speechification, no less) to attend an evening of speech radio in London. A group of about fifty – including some genuine speech radio royalty – gathered in a bar in King’s Cross to listen to a radio programme (one […]

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