Garrett Tiedemann

BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, The Ballad of the Radio Feature A close listen to the history and evolution of the radio documentary feature.

A close listen to the history and evolution of the radio documentary feature, a hybrid form which can sometimes appear closer to music or poetry than to news reporting... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00c7fd0

Ken Casey: ‘I’m Not Going to Shut Up’ A conversation with the Dropkick Murphys front man about punk, politics, and Donald Trump

"Everything we've been doing for the past 30 years was a kind of warm-up for the moment we're in."

Jeffrey Goldberg interviews the Dropkick Murphys front man Ken Casey about punk, politics, and Donald Trump:

The Falling Tree logo designed by Ariana Martinez. A tree reaches its branches up towards the sky, casting a light green shadow onto the ground below. The text reads ‘falling tree’ in a soft pink against a dark forest green background

At the heart of what we do remains a belief in radio's imaginative possibilities - audio that can reconfigure the world around us & sink into our dreams.

Dip into our archive of nearly 900 audio docs here www.fallingtree.co.uk/our-archive/

35 Years Later: Gremlins 2: The New Batch Remains One of the Most Audacious Sequels Ever "If you want to find something weird, you have to go downtown."

35 yrs ago, Gremlins 2: The New Batch completely destroyed my brain in the best possible way. So, in honor of its anniversary today, I thought I’d celebrate this underappreciated gem of a sequel: thehorrorchick.substack.com/p/35-years-l...

Please check it out & shares/subs are appreciated! 🖤

Go to a Steampunk Radio Museum 📻 A shrine filled with ancient audio gear will do you good. Wireless museums, which are scattered around the US and many other countries, are filled with restored and cleaned-up gear going back to the d...

I know it sounds weird but you should continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/go-to-a-st...

governance based on fantasy is always bad governance.

Video Stores, Revival Houses, and the Future of Movies The documentary “Videoheaven” and MOMA’s series “A Theater Near You” consider how people watch films and why it matters.

“Yet, though the rise of video rentals shrank the public space of movies by keeping more viewers at home, the video store arguably expanded the public space of movies by its ubiquity, covering the commercial landscape much more densely than movie theatres did.”

"Television was born without a conscience." — Norman Corwin

there are more of us than there are of them. way, way more.

Landscape With Figure A documentary about World War Two's finest British poet, Keith Douglas, who was killed in action with the Sherwood Rangers in Normandy three days after the D-Day landings. Presented by Sean Street, wi

On the anniversary of D-Day, let’s remember - but not simplify - poet-soldier, ‘war hero’, ‘angry young man’ Keith Douglas. Killed in action 3 days after landing on Gold Beach in the first wave. This was made with @seanstreet.bsky.social 20yrs ago … soundcloud.com/fallingtreep...

Meet the remarkable New York City council member who sponsored and passed a resolution in support of the Living Wage for Musicians Act. Solidarity! @umaw.bsky.social @shahanafrombk.bsky.social

Opinion | Domestic Violence Support Is Unraveling Funding cuts are harming domestic violence programs.

“Much of the federal infrastructure that supports domestic violence programs is damaged or gone,” writes the professor Rachel Louise Snyder.

“‘Listening to a series I’d recorded, I heard my character say a line – but it wasn’t my voice”

If you follow me, and you’re a manager, and you have been a party to Gen AI slop replacing humans, I have a question: how do you live with yourself?

Everyone’s Gone to the Movies How the independent movie publication Screen Slate became indispensable—while defining what makes a good website in 2025.

“Screen Slate is doing the work—passionately, shaggily, without reservation or anxiety about audience and advertising. In fact, there is no on-site advertising, no paywall, and there never will be.”

Why Everyone Wants to Get Into the Criterion Closet The ritual has become part of the fabric of modern cinephilia over the past decade and a half.

“In a world where we’re constantly reminded that physical media is dead — that the future is just algorithms stomping our faces, forever — the fact that the Criterion Closet has gone viral suggests that all is not lost.”

@bilgeebiri.bsky.social

My family’s escape from the Nazis — and the terrible secret I discovered Joe Dunthorne’s fascinating podcast on BBC Sounds tells how the novelist learnt that his family’s stories of their flight from Germany hid a betrayal

“A riveting, profoundly rewarding listen… @joedunthorne.bsky.social is a captivating storyteller”

A great review of Half-Life by @patricianicol.bsky.social in today’s @thetimes.com!

www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...

“I’ve studied McCarthyism’s impact on higher education for 50 years. What’s happening now is worse.” -Ellen Schrecker, historian

Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ

I remember this – hit me like a ton of bricks

I didn’t know you could do this in a newspaper comic

Felt like I was watching a Hal Ashby movie

In honor of Lincoln Center doing a weeklong dive into Jordan Peele's US, here's the Black Man Talk Steven Boone and I did on US when it came out. If you liked the SINNERS talk I did with @812filmreviews.com, you'll enjoy this.

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Kids, Grandpa Tobias is here to tell you about a time when lining up to see 35mm prints was called “going to the movies.”

The Universe Will Decay a Lot Sooner than Expected This week, we have stories about wild horses, wild chimps, and wild cosmic deaths.

finally some good news www.404media.co/the-universe...

Hell Yeah: Airships! 🌀 Radio made one dirigible disaster famous. It may have averted another.

"We no longer look to the skies and expect to see giant balloons the length of a stadium, but shaped like suppositories, carrying people to and fro." Featuring a 100-year-old fix for Newark International Airport? continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/hell-yeah-...

From Darkness to Magic: Warren Ellis and the Journey Toward the Light After a brutal depression, Warren Ellis returns with renewed strength – and deep gratitude. The 60-year-old Australian multi-instrumentalist opens up about pain, love, animals, creativity, and Nina Si...

“The good ideas are the ones you don’t see coming.” One of the most inspiring and affirming interviews I’ve read in a long time: @lydrummet.bsky.social interviews Warren Ellis. Amazing work, Peter. seismograf.org/artikel/dark...

Virtual Water Cooler for Audio Producers (May)

This Wed 5/14: @airmedia.bsky.social's Virtual Water Cooler for Audio Producers. Meet us there! airmedia.org/jobs/trainin... #podcasting #audio

Isolation Row Scott Walker's Climate Of Hunter

An essay about Scott Walker’s “late style” dadadrummer.substack.com/p/isolation-...

I am positive that the folks who follow me already know this, but if you see a person being kidnapped off the street, put your body in the way.

Record it and get in the way.