XMTR Radio Hour
Do you find yourself stuck in the same channels? Unable to break out of the echo-chamber of your media consumption and worldview. Transmitter is here to cut through the noise. Lucia Scazzocchio from 'Social Broadcasts' scans the digital soundscape every other month to bring you original sounds, new voices and archive treasures from podcasts, radio, sound installations and anything that catches her ears.
- Update frequency
- every 57 days
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 35
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
XMTR#15: The North Sea, A London Market, The Cosmos and Lily Montegu
The next hour will be showcasing some audio works featured on xmtr.fm as well as some works produced by Social Broadcasts over the past year. The first piece you’ll hear is from a series of Audio Pos…
XMTR #14 Phonurgia Nova 2021 selection
The next hour showcases some winning and shortlisted English language or no language works from the Phonurgia Nova Awards - a celebration of radiophonic creation.
Winner of the Field Recording catego…
XMTR#13: The Art of Conversation - Joy Kahumbu (Compassionate Neighbours)
We continue our exploration of the art of conversation with Joy Kahumbu who spent several years coordinating the ‘Compassionate Neighbours’ initiative at St Josephs Hospice in Hackney; essentially a…
XMTR#12 Telling Stories with Phoebe McIndoe
Telling Stories is hosted and produced by Phoebe McIndoe and Redzi Bernard.
Listen and subscribe to Telling Stories here
The audio storytellers featured where:
Arlie Adlington
Axel Kacoutié
Bea Duncan f…
XMTR#11: Escaping isolation, a country, your own prison
In this episode we explore what it means to escape;
From the separation caused by Covid with a A Lockdown Love Letter from a daughter to her mother, read by poet and author Julieann Campbell in Derr…
XMTR#10: Blackout
This episode takes a break from the conversation theme and introduces a new audio experiment: LEvitAtion. An immersive radiophonic mix of music, found sounds, field recordings and original recordings…
XMTR#9: The Art of Conversation - Claire MacDonald
In the next few episodes Lucia Scazzocchio from Social Broadcasts explores 'the art of conversation'. As we become more connected and paradoxically more isolated, face to face conversation is increas…
XMTR#8: The Art of Conversation - Cathy Fitzgerald
Cathy Fitzgerald has been making audio documentaries, installations and audio tours for a decade now and she has a knack of turning the everyday into moments of wonder.
This is what happens when you …
XMTR #07: The Art of Conversation - Suzanne O'Connell
In the next few episodes Lucia Scazzocchio from Social Broadcasts explores 'the art of conversation'. As we become more connected and paradoxically more isolated, face to face conversation is increas…
XMTR #06: The Art of Conversation - Social Broadcasts
The next few episodes will be dedicated to the art of conversation. As we become more connected and paradoxically more isolated, face to face conversation is increasingly rare and coveted. Radio and …
XMTR #05: Stories
Radio has been, since its introduction into the family home, or as an accompaniment on long car journeys and now through the ear buds of a smart phone, the perfect medium for the spinning of yarns.
W…
XMTR #04: The Goodwin Sands Radiogram
An hour dedicated to the wonderful world of the Goodwin Sands Radiogram. A part ethnographic, part sound art, podcast series written and produced by Ben Horner with the announcer performed by Peter …
XMTR #03: Art heists, a baroness with a vision and a shopping centre in Merseyside
Part 1: An extract from The Art of The Heist from the podcast Undiscovered produced by London based team Message Heard. This investigative piece narrated by Jake Warren and produced by Sandra Ferrari…
XMTR #02: Shipwrecks, the British coast and an Irish village in the hills
We begin with an extract from Master of The Vessel, episode 2 of The London Compass podcast produced by Joel Cox and Theo Johnson where Nigel Pickford, shipwreck explorer and Mike Catcher, deeps sea …
XMTR #01: Music for bears, a shooting and a London sink estate
In this hour we hear clips from writer and poet Ross Sutherland's podcast Imaginary Advice podcast (Episode 54: One More Song) where Ross uses poetry to deal with anxiety and prepares a DJ set for be…