Lisa Hack

You can listen to it on BBC Sounds if you missed it.

Adam Curtis masterclass: 11 Feb 5-7pm

The BAFTA-award winning filmaker's (Century of the Self, Hypernormalisation) favourite theme is "power and how it works in society"

Clips and conversation with MCCS lecturer Leah Borromeo.

Free, details here: www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

🔥 🏁 12 Feb, 5:30pm: Free screening of new doc on Pauline Black's life history: on the 2-Tone music movement, working-class life in Thatcher's Britain racism, gender, adoption and cities.

With Q+A w Pauline Black, Prof Julian Henriques & Prof Nirmal Puwar!

www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

It is already 45 minutes longer than the shortest day and by the end of January it will be 1 hour 15 minutes longer than the shortest day.

TfL Go app upgrade will help commuters get refunds for dreaded Tube 'card clash' Improved TfL Go app will allow TfL to phase out Oyster and Contactless app

The TfL Go app just got smarter 📲

Londoners will soon be able to check for real-time travel info, view their account journey history, and apply for refunds on the go—all in one app.

With over 8M downloads and 1M monthly users, it’s set to make travelling in London easier than ever.

Applications for BBC Sounds Audio Lab 2025 are open.

If you're an #audio creator with a great podcast idea that needs to be heard you should apply.

The best of them study at Goldsmiths in London!
@mediacomgold.bsky.social @goldsmithsaudio.bsky.social

More details: bbc.co.uk/audiolab

Jude's Big Swim Challenge & more in our January Update

🎙️What’s on our radar? BBC Sounds Audio Lab is back for its fourth year, taking on a new cohort of audio creators who want to tell the untold stories that deserve to be heard. Find out more and apply by 11th February. That & more in our Jan newsletter:

Congratulations to our MCCS students who are graduating today! We are so proud of you all 🎉

Tomorrow night work by @goldsmithsaudio.bsky.social Alum Sam Stone on BBC Radio 4 @mediacomgold.bsky.social

Sign the Petition Save Audio Drama at the BBC

SAVE AUDIO DRAMA ON THE BBC (a 🧵) "The BBC [is] completely eradicating audio drama from Radio 3. This change will see not only essential jobs and employment opportunities for creative workers slashed, but programming of new material and new performers totally gone." chng.it/qpZHKDxHZD 1/4

As someone who really, really enjoyed retreat #1, I strongly encourage Europe-based audio people to apply and treat themselves with an inspiring & uplifting time - especially if you're a freelancer like me. 👋

PITCHING to English-language radio/podcast shows & production companies

Happy Monday! Check out this list of shows & production companies that accept freelance pitches for segments and episodes from @willcoley.bsky.social!

Here we go! Hope you'll consider supporting this little audio engine that can. And has. And will! Especially with your help.

Call-out: Beach of Dreams Composer We’re looking for a freelance composer to create an electro-acoustic score to be used at a number of Beach of Dreams events next year, forming an evocative backdrop for a site-specific promenade dance...

Are you a composer? #BeachOfDreams are commissioning a 40-minute piece for their artwork.

Apply by 13 January.

Book cover design that says 'Sonic Pasts: acoustical heritage and historical soundscapes' At the centre we see a circle formed by swirly colour bands and different outlines of people, objects and places, such as a desert landscape, a diver, Stonehenge and Notre Dame. At the bottom it says Mariana J López. The book cover is yellow with dark purple font.

My book 'Sonic Pasts: acoustical heritage and historical soundscapes' is now available to pre-order 😊 www.routledge.com/Sonic-Pasts-...

Multitrack masterclass with Christina Hardings Friday 13th Dec. Trauma informed documentary making online 4-5.30pm. Black and white headshot of christina. She is looking directly into the camera.

How can the documentary process be a helping one - rather than harmful?

Christina is an award-winning freelance audio producer & artist working creatively in the field of documentary.

An online masterclass from multitrack.uk
Friday 13th Dec 4pm-5.30pm.
Pay what you can

shorturl.at/osjCf

Rupert Murdoch loses battle to control succession to his media empire Media mogul’s three adult children will retain control despite his bid to give his son Lachlan complete control Rupert Murdoch’s three adult children will retain control over their father’s media empire upon his death, despite Murdoch launching a…

Rupert Murdoch loses battle to control succession to his media empire

6 people in the control room of an audio studio. Person in fron is laughing. They are in an orange tee shirt. To their left a woman with long pink hair is looking focused at the mixing desk which is unseen. On the far right a person is clicking their fingers with delight and 3 other people in the background are celebrating the end of a successful ‘as live’ radio show.

An imperfect photo capturing the moment perfectly.

I brought the multitrack fellows into @goldsmithsaudio.bsky.social main studio along with Alumni for a taster in live radio skills.

Over 80% of the UK population still listen to radio, having the productions skills for it is still valuable.

graphic - today's theme is small

Today's #LentoAdvent theme is...

🐝 small 🍃

Sunsets and forests are all very well but noticing the small things brings us the most joy. What did you notice in nature this year? What small joys filled you? Maybe a colourful leaf or a single bird singing?

Please add alt text so everyone can join in.

A Sound Fields Manifesto - Transom A Sound Fields Manifesto - Transom

“As some of the companies still making money in podcasting work to convince audiences that what they really want is just “audio content,” we are asserting ourselves as audio documentarians.”

@audiosand.bsky.social and I getting polemical in @transom.bsky.social today!
transom.org/2024/sound-f...

I wonder if that happened to me too. I had a flourish of new followers.

I follow you on the other place!

This is exactly why Shortcuts is needed. Ben is an alum of @mediacomgold.bsky.social

Terrible news - my first radio commissions were two docs made for Shortcuts. They were patient, encouraging and let us make two really weird mini docs, they also paid us decent money to make them.

Here's one about Charles 'Tuna' Chapman the first black person to swim the channel 👇

Against a backdrop of a forest carpeted with bluebells, a block of text reads, “After 12 years on the radio, we’re sad to share the news that BBC Radio 4 has chosen to end Short Cuts. The episode on 7th January 2025 will be our last on their airwaves. We are proud of this audio garden, and what has grown here over the years.”

After 12 years on the radio, @josielong.bsky.social's Short Cuts will have its last series on BBC Radio 4 this winter.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Apple shares the most popular podcasts of 2024 Today, Apple shared the most popular podcasts of 2024, with year-end charts localized for listeners in nearly 100 countries and regions.

The top shows:

1️⃣ The Daily
2️⃣ Crime Junkie
3️⃣ The Joe Rogan Experience
4️⃣ Dateline NBC
5️⃣ SmartLess
6️⃣ Huberman Lab
7️⃣ This American Life
8️⃣ New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
9️⃣ Up First from NPR
🔟 Morbid

A pair of SE electronics Se4400 condenser mics in an XY stereo pair.. almost. One of my brown hands on the left one trying to adjust it. The room is a radio studio.

My first post!
Spent the day helping 3rd year audio students direct and record short drama scenes. We had foxes discussing pizza, ads on a car radio bringing a couple back together and friends gossiping about intersectional feminism!

And that’s only half of them! @mediacomgold.bsky.social