Audio Producers, are you ready for an academic project to inspire your storytelling? Would you like to collaborate with some of the world’s leading scholars? Could your storytelling skills make some brilliant academic research accessible to wider audiences? Academics, do you have a research story that could be turned into an audio documentary project? Would […]
A communal, lights-out listening event celebrating the best in audio storytelling from around the world. Join us for our first Bristol foray of the new year with a carefully curated selection of sound adventures. This time – stories of anarchy, punk & resistance! Expect to hear podcasts, radio documentaries and dramas that rip up radio […]
An audiotastic start to the year: long-time In The Dark friend and collaborator Nina Perry will be joining us in Bournemouth in January. She’ll be playing a mixture of her own work and work that has inspired her. Nina is one of Britain’s most successful radio feature producers, known in particular for making what she […]
We’re teaming up once again with the wonderful Grant Museum of Zoology and this time it’s all about cats! As part of a “late” at the Grant Museum which promises a whole host of cat-based delights, we’ll be playing audio to make you purr. This event is part of the The Museum of Ordinary Animals […]
On 19th December we’ll be holding an In The Dark Christmas special. It will kick off the Caretaker’s Christmas Party hosted by the lovely Cathy FitzGerald, audio producer extraordinaire and Caretaker of the Strange and Charmed school for audio storytellers. Together with Cathy we’ve been rummaging through radio archives past and present to bring […]
In The Dark will be curating a short listening session as part of an evening inspired by the chilling world of Edgar Allan Poe, curated by our friends at Poet In The City. It will be a night of discussion, live poetry, immersive audio and Poe-inspired music. We will hear from fantasy, horror and sci-fi […]
Good news audio lovers: In The Dark is now holding events in Bournemouth. For the opening event Laura Irving and Hugh Chignell will offer their own Radio Journeys, from their first radio memories to their most recent and exciting. Laura’s audio piece “Quiet Revolution” recently won the Silver Award at the prestigious Charles Parker Prize […]
In September we’re back at our favourite festival for non-fiction storytelling, Open City Doc/Fest. We’ll be kicking off with an city themed listening event bringing together audio from radio, podcasts and sound art that explore urban secrets, past and present. WHEN: 7th September 2017, 17.30 WHERE: Open City Doc/Fest Festival Hub, Bargehouse, Barge House St, […]
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 […]