Author: Radio Atlas

Silvestro has worked in the mine since he was 23 years old – now he’s 67. Manlio, at 40, left teaching to go and work in the mine, but to know himself and this new world, had to take on its most infamous job – the time-keeper. He’s now 88.

The paths of these two men, different but parallel, meet in 1992 when they barricade themselves into the San Giovanni mine for months – laying explosives across the opening, preventing its closure and the slow desertification of the territory at that time. Years later, after the mines are closed and the desertification advances, Manlio and Silvestro revisit the ghosts of their past.

Best Radio Documentary at the Prix Italia and Prix Europa 2018.

Directed by Gianluca Stazi and Giuseppe Casu
Script by Gianluca Stazi and Giuseppe Casu
Sound by Gianluca Stazi
Editing by Gianluca Stazi
Producing organisation: Tratti Documentari
Co-producing organisation: Rai Radio3
Commissioning editors: Daria Corrias and Fabiana Carobolante for Tre Soldi – Radio3 Rai

A message from the makers –

Dear listener,

After years of work we are happy to see this story going to the world alone. Send us a text or sound message to let us know where “The Upside Down” has arrived. We will read your words or listen to your voice with the miners of Sulcis Iglesiente.

Feedback will be published here: tratti.org/listeners/

Here is our mail: info@tratti.org

Keep fighting!

Gianluca and Giuseppe

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Karen Mørk is a radio documentary-maker who won the Danish Short Dox final in 2018 with ‘When We Got To Know Grief’, she was also the recipient of the Åke Blomström Award in 2017.

A longer version of this documentary will be available on Radio24syv in Spring 2019.

Executive producer: Kim Fox

English translation and editing: Nour Ibrahim, Nadeen Shaker, Calvin Harrison and Safaa Magdy

The Ehky Ya Masr (Tell Your Story Egypt) Podcast launched in 2017 as a platform to tell narrative non-fiction audio stories about life in Egypt. The podcast has been recognized with three awards from the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) for several of its audio features.

Kanzy Mahmoud is currently pursuing an MA in Digital Journalism at Goldsmiths in London. Previously she was a Technical Advisor for the Egyptian German Joint Committee for Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency and Environmental Protection (JCEE) and for the GIZ, the German Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation. She earned a BA from The American University in Cairo (AUC) specialising in both political science and multimedia journalism, the latter of which has prompted her to work as a freelance TV reporter for Egypt’s CBC TV channel. She received the first place award at the Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media and Arts in 2016 for an audio documentary she produced on the experiences of AUCians studying abroad.

Executive producer: Kim Fox

English translation and editing: Nadeen Shaker and Nour Ibrahim

The Ehky Ya Masr (Tell Your Story Egypt) Podcast launched in 2017 as a platform to tell narrative non-fiction audio stories about life in Egypt. The podcast has been recognized with three awards from the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) for several of its audio features.

Nadeen Shaker is an associate editor at the Cairo Review of Global Affairs and a freelance multimedia producer. Her work has appeared in Vice News, Quartz, Muftah, Salon, Bedford and Bowery, The Middle East Report, The Postcolonialist, The BRICS Post, AlterNet, WNYU, PRI’s America Abroad Media, CNN and Ahram Online, among others. She was awarded the David Teeuwen Student Journalism Award from the Online News Association for a VR interactive website called New York Values. She holds an MA from New York University and a BA from The American University in Cairo.

A feature which weaves together audio compositions created by inmates  serving long-term sentences interwoven with their reflections on sound and listening.

Winner of the Prix Futura in 1993.

René Farabet (1934 – 2017) was one of the key figures in the Atelier de Creation Radiophonique at France Culture from its creation in 1969 until 2000. A master of the creative audio feature, his work was profoundly influential on radio-makers around the world.

The interviews in this program were recorded in the ‘Studio of Time’ at St Maur prison. 

The Studio of Time was created in 1991 by the composer Nicolas Frize and his associates (Les Musiques de la Boulangère). Composed of twelve digitising studios, two radio and music studios and two workshops, this is a space where art and culture join forces to offer high-level training programs in sound skills and a profession to fifteen long term detainees. The Studio of Time continues to exist, functioning as a service of public utility in collaboration with institutions such as the National Sound Archive, the National Archives, various museums and other bodies.

 

 

After leaving Croatia in search of better opportunities, Marta is visiting home. But this time with a new role – as a reporter.

Marta Medvešek is a Croatian audio artist, currently based in Berlin. Guest Workers 2.0 is her first piece. It won the inaugural Adam Mickiewicz Institute prize. A contest organised by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute for the 2018 Digital Cultures Conference, focused on discovering new work from artists in Central and Eastern Europe.

Cesilie’s family have wrapped their secrets in a brown parcel. Her father gave her the parcel ten years ago – asking her not to open it until two years after her mother dies. Ten years later, and almost two years after her mother has passed away, Cesilie is ready to see what’s inside.

The Brown Parcel (Den Brune Pakken) was made by Kari Hesthamar. The technical direction was by Kåre Johan Lund and the coach was Berit Hedemann. It won the Prix Europa in 2004.

Kari Hesthamar began working at NRK in 1996 and in the Radio Documentary department at NRK P2 from 1999 where she produced work that won awards at the Prix Italia, Prix Europa and Prix Radio. In 2008, she released the book So Long Marianne. A love story about Marianne Ihlen’s relationship with Leonard Cohen and Axel Jensen. Since 2016 she has been employed as a project manager for podcasts in NRK.

Music by Barbara Okma

Aired in the VPRO Radio 1 series ‘One Minute‘

Bert Kommerij (1964) writer, radiomaker, voice-over, host.

Anonymous voices on a telephone sex line interweave with an audio letter addressed to an ever-changing ‘you’. In a work of intimate audio art from the pre-internet era, Kommerij builds a feature around a text he wrote about a contact ad.

First broadcast in the series Radiostories: Human on NPO Radio 5.

Bert Kommerij (1964) writer, radiomaker, voice-over, host.

A fleeting scene from a remote village in Polesia, south east Belarus. After lunch and liquor on the Saturday before Orthodox Easter at babka Maria’s house. No meat is allowed on the table. The only one exempt from this rule is Maria’s ginger cat…

Recorded as part of a documentary on the Belarusian photographer Siarhiej Leskiec, whilst he was capturing material for his project ‘Whisper’  in which he tries to capture the lives of the last whisperers – women who believe they are healing illnesses with incantations.

Inga Janiulytė is a journalist for Lithuanian National Radio.