Falling Tree Productions

Always illuminating, available from this evening 7.15pm Sun 8 Feb. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Having used alcohol to navigate anxieties, insecurities and noisy minds, women share their experience as ‘functioning alcoholics’, an unravelling that happened slowly and in secret.

Produced by Jodie Taylor
Listen tonight on BBC Radio 4 or in the Illuminated podcast www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

"This week’s Illuminated, Functioning [was] touching [and] the sound work – rushing water, echoing creaks, broken chords – gave everything a creeping dread…” @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social @theobserveruk.bsky.social

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BBC Radio 4 - Illuminated, Functioning Two women share a rare insight into their secret lives as 'functioning alcoholics’.

Having used alcohol to navigate anxieties, insecurities and noisy minds, women share their experience as ‘functioning alcoholics’, an unravelling that happened slowly and in secret www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

“Intensely powerful [and] sensitively handled by producer Jodie Taylor…” - @radiotimes.bsky.social Pick of the Day

Listen to ‘Functioning’ this Sunday in BBC Radio 4’s Illuminated www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

My Rules of Radio My Rules of Radio - Transom

"Now that you’re old, and now that the world is ending, try to be useful..."

There's so much wisdom and generosity in these @rumblestrip.bsky.social Rules for Radio on @transom.bsky.social

transom.org/2026/my-rule...

Delighted to see this! Congratulations @catherineboulle.bsky.social!

Audiomaker Ariana Martinez and Radio Atlas founder Eleanor McDowall sit side by side on stage at the Lucia festival in Italy in 2019. A screen behind them and a laptop between them. Both of them have short hair and wear big boots.

A crowd sit in a cosy room as a subtitled audio documentary plays on the screen in the background. The text reads “the lady smelled like my grandma’s garden. Really. She had this floral scent… and then I just relaxed and fell into her arms”

This month Radio Atlas turns ten! 🎈

An ongoing labour of love, Radio Atlas has been kept afloat by 100s of tiny acts of kindness. By makers who shared their work, helped make the work of others accessible, worked on translations or wrote to me about the radio they love…

Www.radioatlas.org

I was delighted to be featured in this charming podcast hosted by the brilliant poet Jack Underwood

"A very different listen..."

Great to hear a listener write in to BBC Radio 4's Pick of the Week about our recent Illuminated 'The Metaphor Consultant'

Catch up on the Illuminated podcast
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

BBC Radio 4 - Illuminated, Mum in a Box Saba Husain receives an unexpected - and life-changing - box.

You can listen to Mum in a Box on the BBC Radio 4 Illuminated podcast - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The documentary was produced by @christinahardinge.bsky.social and co-created with Saba Husain

Sound design and original music by Noémie Ducimetière

Pick of the Week - Emma Freud - BBC Sounds Emma Freud presents a selection of the best bits of audio across the BBC.

"It's such a beautiful image of how looking back can actually help you stand more firmly in the present..."

Moved to hear Emma Freud's introduction to a clip of Mum in a Box on BBC Radio 4's Pick of the Week, speaking just a few weeks after the death of her own mother
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Illuminated - The Metaphor Consultant - BBC Sounds The poet Jack Underwood offers his services as a metaphor consultant, for a reasonable fee

This is good www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Listen to The Metaphor Consultant on BBC Radio 4 now: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Or catch up later with the Illuminated podcast

BBC Radio 4 - Lights Out, Series 3, From the Ashes of New Cross Revisiting the night of the New Cross Fire in 1981 and its aftermath.

Five years ago, our documentary 'From the Ashes of New Cross' explored the aftermath of that night.

With a specially commissioned sequence of poems by unofficial Lewisham Laureate, Mark 'Mr T' Thompson.

Produced by Cherise Hamilton-Stephenson and Alan Hall www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The order of service. The text reads, "Act of Remembrance. Sandra Ruddock and Jenny Berbeck. After each name is read, as the candle is lit, please join us in saying. We remember you. Patrick Cummings, 21st September 1964 - 18th January 1981. Lloyd Hall, 28th November 1960 - 18th January 1981. Andrew Gooding, 18th February 1966 - 18th January 1981. Humphrey Geoffrey Brown, 4th July 1962 - 18th January 1981. Peter Campbell, 23rd February 1962 - 18th January 1981. Owen Thompson, 11th September 1964 - 18th January 1981. Gerry Paul Francis, 21st August 1963 - 18th January 1981. Yvonne Ruddock, 24th January 1965 - 18th January 1981. Steve Collins, 2nd May 1963 - 18th January 1981. Glenton Powell, 18th January 1966 - 25th January 1981. Patricia Johnson, 16th May 1965 - 18th January 1981. Paul Ruddock, 19th November 1958 - 9th February 1981. Rosaline Henry, 23rd September 1964 - 18th January 1981. Anthony Berbeck, 17th August 1962 - 9th July 1983. After a time of silence, we say together. Loving God, continue to hold those we love in your eternal rest, and may your perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen"

Profound sadness but an undiminished yearning for justice 45 years on from the New Cross Fire at the Memorial Service to remember those who were killed...

Tonight in BBC Radio 4’s Illuminated, the poet Jack Underwood offers his services as a metaphor consultant, for a very reasonable fee.

Listen to The Metaphor Consultant in the Illuminated podcast

Produced by Eleanor McDowall www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The falling tree logo - a dark green background, the outline of a tree reaches up to the sky, on the ground it casts a shadow - bare branches with buds starting to form. The text reads 'falling tree'

Catch up on BBC Sounds or in the free Falling Tree archive www.fallingtree.co.uk

"It’s that sense of easy conversation – a connection between Hall and the musicians that is free and friendly... an enchanting listen..."

Great to see this Nuala McCann @irishnews.com review of the latest series of Instrumental! www.irishnews.com/entertainmen...

"Podcasting isn’t a genre; it’s an industry. Mashing together news, interview shows, celebrity-driven conversations and self-help monologues doesn’t make much sense. More striking still is what the nominations are missing entirely..."

Our First Event! Love sound art? Have a calendar which includes January 2026? Why not pencil in Sounds For The Dark for 22/01/26 at Leith Depot (time tbc), free entry. We’ll be listening to submitted sound ar…

Excited to see a new listening cinema popping up in Edinburgh...

📻 ✨ Sounds for the Dark is having its first event in a couple of weeks - more details here: soundsforthedark.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/o...

In our last episode of the current series of Instrumental on BBC Radio 3, Alan Hall talks with James Mollison - tenor saxophonist with the Mercury Prize-winning south London jazz band Ezra Collective

Listen live at 9.45pm tonight or catch up later on BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Alan Hall talks with the professional piano accordionist Karen Tweed, who has been under the spell of her instrument since the age of 11 - this evening on Radio 3 📻

Listen live at 9.45pm or catch up later on BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Tonight on BBC Radio 3's Instrumental, Alan Hall talks with the Garklein Recorder Ensemble from Yorkshire, which comprises mostly former peripatetic music teachers who have migrated to recorders from other instruments.

Listen live at 9.45pm or catch up on BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A new series of Instrumental continues on BBC Radio 3 tonight…

Radio-maker (and trumpet player) Alan Hall talks with Siobhan Edwards the principal tenor horn at the Black Dyke Band, one of the best brass bands in the world.

Listen at 9.45pm or catch up on BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

“Johnny Flynn gets the second series of Instrumental off to a delightful start..." - @radiotimes.bsky.social Pick of the Week

Instrumental, our series of intimate musical conversations, returns to BBC Radio 3.

Listen every night at 9.45pm or catch up on BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Great to hear Sarah Walker preview the return of our series Instrumental to BBC Radio 3!

Starting tomorrow night at 9.45pm, in the first episode listen to Alan Hall in conversation with Johnny Flynn about his relationship with the violin www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A photograph of Miranda Sawyer's audio column in The Observer listing the top ten audio highlights of the year. Text reads: "Illuminated: Problems with Julia Masli. Radio 4's Illuminated strand, a sort-of replacement for Lights Out, showcases creative single audio docs. Talia Augustidis's show about Masli, an inventive, perceptive Estonian clown, was one of the highlights."

Wonderful to see Problems with Julia Masli (produced by @taliaaugustidis.bsky.social and Julia Masli) in @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social's audio top ten of 2025 for @theobserveruk.bsky.social!

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

And all made on reel to reel for the crystal set! (Thanks Geoff!)