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We make documentaries and audio art for radio, podcasts and public spaces. Our free archive of more than 900 documentaries is available at - www.fallingtree.co.uk

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And Issue One of @writteninair.bsky.social (cassettes are sold out but you can still listen via a digital download on @bandcamp.com, where the last few physical magazines are also still for saleโ€ฆ) writteninair.bandcamp.com/album/issue-...

23.11.2025 13:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A yellow zine on a wooden table, the words Bad Radio juddering on the page like text caught in the static of a malfunctioning television

A yellow zine on a wooden table, the words Bad Radio juddering on the page like text caught in the static of a malfunctioning television

Nina Garthwaite releasing mischievous audio goblins through her Bad Radio workshop at XMTR Festival

23.11.2025 13:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The much-needed audio criticism of @soundfieldsjournal.bsky.social emerges in its first physical edition (which you can still buy via the @uniondocs.bsky.social website) uniondocs.org/product/soun...

23.11.2025 13:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A zine on a wooden table - waves rise up the bottom of the image, a hot pink rectangle in the middle, stamped across the top the words Open Wave Receiver / Shortwave Collective

A zine on a wooden table - waves rise up the bottom of the image, a hot pink rectangle in the middle, stamped across the top the words Open Wave Receiver / Shortwave Collective

๐Ÿ“ป @swavecollective.bsky.socialโ€™s Open Wave Receiver zine (download and print from their website - make your own radios at home!) www.shortwavecollective.net/how-to-make-...

23.11.2025 13:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Two cassettes on a wooden table. On the left, one has a hand drawn cover - a flower emerging from the name Mitra Kaboli - the text above reads Making Utopia.

On the right - a woman holds a glowing orb aloft, obscuring the top half of her face. The text reads The Golden Tape

Two cassettes on a wooden table. On the left, one has a hand drawn cover - a flower emerging from the name Mitra Kaboli - the text above reads Making Utopia. On the right - a woman holds a glowing orb aloft, obscuring the top half of her face. The text reads The Golden Tape

Cassettes of Mitra Kaboliโ€™s Making Utopia ๐Ÿชด and Kristina Loringโ€™s AI-evading Golden Tape ๐Ÿ”ฎ, which appeared at this yearโ€™s XMTR festivalโ€ฆ www.kristinaloring.com/the-golden-t...

m.soundcloud.com/mitra-kaboli...

23.11.2025 13:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Different textures of paper layer on top of each other - one translucent and silvery shows the text โ€œHow does it feel to be porous? For the membrane that separates your body from its environment to thin, tear, or dissolve? What do we absorb in this state of vulnerability? What if this sublime merging is also the byproduct of pain, injury, or illness? 

inland sea is an ecosystem of entangled sounds, sculptural objects, and organic matter sourced from textual research, field recording, and material experimentation, and embodied practice in or in relation to Lake Michigan and its Chicago shore.โ€

Beneath it silver text on a black background reads โ€œInland Seaโ€

Different textures of paper layer on top of each other - one translucent and silvery shows the text โ€œHow does it feel to be porous? For the membrane that separates your body from its environment to thin, tear, or dissolve? What do we absorb in this state of vulnerability? What if this sublime merging is also the byproduct of pain, injury, or illness? inland sea is an ecosystem of entangled sounds, sculptural objects, and organic matter sourced from textual research, field recording, and material experimentation, and embodied practice in or in relation to Lake Michigan and its Chicago shore.โ€ Beneath it silver text on a black background reads โ€œInland Seaโ€

๐ŸŒŠ @resonance-archive.bsky.socialโ€™s Inland Sea zine, produced for their live performance with Lucy Little www.arianamartinezstudio.com/inland-sea

23.11.2025 13:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A selection of radio books, zines and cassettes laid out on a table

A selection of radio books, zines and cassettes laid out on a table

A year of radio sneaking into physical formsโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ“š

A joy to see audio makers push back against the last few years many losses with these beautiful, gently defiant objects ๐Ÿ”ฎ

@resonance-archive.bsky.social @soundfieldsjournal.bsky.social @writteninair.bsky.social @swavecollective.bsky.social

23.11.2025 13:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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County Lines We make documentaries and audio art for radio, podcasts and public spaces. At the heart of what we do is a belief in the imaginative possibilities of radio. Sounds that can reconfigure the world arou

Or in the free Falling Tree archive soundcloud.com/fallingtreep...

20.11.2025 14:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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BBC Radio 4 - County Lines An investigation into how criminal gangs groom young people to traffic drugs.

Listen to County Lines on BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

20.11.2025 14:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Save the Children announces winners of Global Media Awards 2025 LONDON/GENEVA 20 Novemberย โ€“ย Save the Children is proud to announce the winners of its second annual Global Media Awards 2025 on World Childrenโ€™s Day, celebrating excellence in journalism focused on ch...

Congratulations to @phoebemcindoe.bsky.social @redzi.bsky.social, Alan Hall and @mikemixes.bsky.social for winning this year's @savethechildren.org Radio and Podcasts award for BBC Radio 4's County Lines! www.savethechildren.org.uk/news/media-c...

20.11.2025 14:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Bad News Is Thereโ€™s No More Money, But Thatโ€™s Also The Good News | Defector RICHMOND, VA โ€“ The audience was booing Ira Glass.ย  It was the opening session of Resonate, a podcast festival founded three years ago by Chioke lโ€™Anson at Virginia Commonwealth Universityโ€™s Institute ...

I expected this podcast festival to feel like a funeral, but it was surprisingly optimistic. Once you hit rock bottom, you can only really go up.

defector.com/resonate-pod...

14.11.2025 15:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 93    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
George and Audrey smile at a camera, the sunlight shining onto the lens

George and Audrey smile at a camera, the sunlight shining onto the lens

George and Tara stand together in Spitalfields, London, staring into the camera

George and Tara stand together in Spitalfields, London, staring into the camera

George as a child in his school uniform, cheekily smiling at the camera

George as a child in his school uniform, cheekily smiling at the camera

It was one of the highlights of our radio work to document with @audreygillan.bsky.social George's life with his pal Tara, who died in 2024

13.11.2025 17:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
George sits on a doorstep in Spitalfields, London, smoking a cigarette and smiling at the camera.

George sits on a doorstep in Spitalfields, London, smoking a cigarette and smiling at the camera.

One of the cards from the act of rememberance, the text reads "A Service of Commemoration. Thursday 13th November 2025. We remember all people who have been homeless who have died in the last year especially: George Crompton. Please take this card away to remember this person during the coming year or write the name of someone you would like to remember. We will remember them. This vigil is organised by St Martin-in-the-Fields, Connection at St Martin's, St Martin-in-the-Fields Charity, Housing Justice and The Museum of Homelessness"

One of the cards from the act of rememberance, the text reads "A Service of Commemoration. Thursday 13th November 2025. We remember all people who have been homeless who have died in the last year especially: George Crompton. Please take this card away to remember this person during the coming year or write the name of someone you would like to remember. We will remember them. This vigil is organised by St Martin-in-the-Fields, Connection at St Martin's, St Martin-in-the-Fields Charity, Housing Justice and The Museum of Homelessness"

Today we went to the St Martin-in-the-Fields vigil to remember George Crompton, one of the 208 people experiencing homelessness who died in the last year in London.

13.11.2025 17:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, When the Words Leave The poet Caroline Bird explores the silences when it feels like the words have left you.

...listen to @carolinebirduk.bsky.social's documentary through BBC Sounds (or in the Falling Tree archive) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

13.11.2025 14:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Was Queen Victoria's doctor the first psychoanalyst? Queen Victoria began to experience dark visions after giving birth to her second child. Concerned that she might have inherited the madness of her grandfather, George III, Prince Albert summoned her d...

"Being poets, they were able to explain what creativity and creative silence feel like in ways that lingered on the ears, not least because many of their metaphors and similes sprang from the radio..."

When the Words Leave is reviewed in today's Spectator www.spectator.co.uk/article/was-...

13.11.2025 14:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I listened and it was beautiful! @carolinebirduk.bsky.social ๐Ÿ˜

11.11.2025 18:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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No laughing matter: meet Julia Masli, the clown who wants to fix all our problems | The Observer

Love this @rachaelhealy.bsky.social feature on Problems with Julia Masli for @theobserveruk.bsky.social

You can still catch up with Julia Masli and @taliaaugustidis.bsky.social' documentary in BBC Radio 4's Illuminated podcast... observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

12.11.2025 14:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Catching up - this looks great!

10.11.2025 19:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This was an excellent listen.

10.11.2025 13:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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In the company of other poets, @carolinebirduk.bsky.social explores the silences when it feels like words have left you.

Listen to When the Words Leave on BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

@oliverinthenorth.bsky.social @hannahcopley.bsky.social

Music - Phil Smith
Prod - Eleanor McDowall

10.11.2025 13:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Was a pleasure to talk to Caroline Bird about how it feels when the words leave.

09.11.2025 11:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, When the Words Leave The poet Caroline Bird explores the silences when it feels like the words have left you.

Tonight at 7.15 on Radio 3. Writerโ€™s block, dry spell, fallow period, worrisome silence, that terrifying, lonely time when you *cannot* write a poem. I speak to Liz Berry, Oliver Carmichael, Hannah Copley, Marie Howe, Vanessa Kisuule and Jack Underwood! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

09.11.2025 08:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 37    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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BBC Radio 4 - Illuminated, Problems with Julia Masli There are so many problems in the world. Julia Masli has been trying to solve them.

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

08.11.2025 19:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Radio review: Telling all your problems to a clown Armed with a microphone strapped to a mannequinโ€™s leg, Julia Masli tries to help solve peopleโ€™s problems

"Itโ€™s funny, performance art. But she carries it off with a kind of dizzy magic"

Great to see another review of the "enchanting" Problems with Julia Masli in this week's @irishnews.com

cc @taliaaugustidis.bsky.social

Listen on BBC Radio 4's Illuminated podcast www.irishnews.com/entertainmen...

08.11.2025 19:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Between the Ears - Ohcejohka - Saxophone, Joik and Birds - BBC Sounds Artists improvise amid nature in the northernmost part of Finland.

Listen to Ohcejohka - Saxophone, Joik and Birds

Produced by Suvi Tuuli Kataja

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

03.11.2025 13:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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In this weekโ€™s Between the Ears, saxophonist Pauli Lyytinen travels to Sรกpmi, to Ohcejohka (Utsjoki), to visit his friend, writerโ€“musician Niillas Holmberg.

The two artists go rowing in the river, improvise under the Sรกmi bridge, and make music with birdsโ€ฆ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

03.11.2025 13:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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BBC Radio 4 - Illuminated, Problems with Julia Masli There are so many problems in the world. Julia Masli has been trying to solve them.

Listen now on BBC Radio 4's Illuminated podcast: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

01.11.2025 10:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The return of Danny Robinsโ€™s supernatural series Uncanny Listeners tell their spooky stories in this Halloween special, but many shouldnโ€™t have got past a drunken chat. Plus, Keir Starmerโ€™s musical choices fail...

"My favourite listen last week... strange and funny... The soundwork, by the brilliant๏ปฟ @taliaaugustidis.bsky.social,๏ปฟ is fantastic..."

Wonderful to see this @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social review of Problems with Julia Masli in this weekend's @theobserveruk.bsky.social! observer.co.uk/culture/audi...

01.11.2025 10:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Listen to The Last Cowboys on The Documentary podcast from the BBC World Service - a long-haul view of the life of modern truckers in Europe

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

31.10.2025 13:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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BBC Radio 4 - Illuminated, Problems with Julia Masli There are so many problems in the world. Julia Masli has been trying to solve them.

Problems with Julia Masli was produced by @taliaaugustidis.bsky.social & Julia Masli
Dramaturgy by Kim Noble (director of ha ha ha ha ha ha ha)
Execs: Alan Hall and Eleanor McDowall
Photos: Cameron Whitman & Andrew Max Levy

Listen here or on the Illuminated podcast www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

26.10.2025 18:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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