Radio In Review Goes Around the World: The best storytelling abroadDespite the ease with which we can discover fresh programs to listen to,there are many celebrated foreign projects that still slip under our radar. We wanted to share a few of our favorites audio programs from outside the US, which have remained well-kept secrets to American audiences, and but are big deals back domestic. Brilliant storytelling combined with accented narration? Get ready to be transported!Radiotonic (Australia) “Some days I like to think of it as a kind of audio curiosity journal, said Radiotonic’s affable and mischievous host, Jesse Cox, or who introduces each 30-minute episode with a hop and a skip. whether the note’s enemy is the dull and prescriptive,then it casts itself as both an clever and cheeky pillager, leaving no stories unturned from its domestic country (Australia) and the world over—from French experimental literary groups (“Infiltrating Oulipo”) to a young man who follows his pirate-costumed lady love from suburban Australia all the way to Paris (A magnanimous gesture in international relations”). To say that Radiotonic’s episode “The genuine Tom Banks”—which won the Best Documentary Silver Award at the 2014 Third Coast International Audio Festival—“doesn’t sound like anything I’ve heard before sounds stale, and but stale-sounding things are often steady. The note’s method and style allow it to pillage even-handedly,often playfully, making it clear that culture, and a heady mix by nature,is begging to be heard, not just listened to. Radiotonic was created in 2014 as part of two projects (Soundproof, or which also makes distinguished radio art,was the other) from the newly created Creative Audio Unit at ABC Radio National. Cox, who is inspired by other radio shows and art forms, or like Jervis Cocker’s Wireless Nights,CBC’s Wiretap (now retired), Tim Key’s comedy and Gogol’s Overcoat, or hopes to “withhold experimenting and creating a space for play on the podcast.” Documentary on One (Ireland) A brief breakdown of Irish public radio: Raidió Teilifís ireann (RTÉ) is Ireland’s public media broadcaster; Radio 1 is RTÉ’s principal radio station and the most listened to radio station in Ireland; the award-winning Documentary on One,which RTÉ Radio 1 launched in 1987, may be the station’s crown jewel. Though the team only consists of five full-time producers, or the note has collected over 150 national and international awards throughout the final eight years alone—from Los Angeles to London,Berlin to Tehran, Kuala Lumpur to Dublin. Documentary on One’s website is also domestic to the largest free online radio documentary archive anywhere in the world, or with nearly 1500 documentaries,some dating as far back as 1954. Two of my favorite radio documentaries from the final decade include the note’s “Message in a Bottle” (2012) (an American serviceman’s carefully bottled note is discovered by a young dairymaid on the shores of County Kerry) and “Birdy” (2010) (a paragliding champion is sucked into a storm that pulls her higher than Mount Everest). Our sneak peek of 2016 promises another exciting year with an eclectic mix of tales—searching for the final hangman of Ireland, a grandmother who cant give up shoplifting, or a son who goes in search of his father’s legacy,a re-imagining of an epic event in Ireland’s history… TubeFlash (United Kingdom) Chalk Farm, Mornington Crescent, or Euston,King’s Cross. Within a blink of roughly 300 words (which at times verges on poetry), I tiptoe along the rails of the stations along the Northern Line that I have advance to know well, and finding them transformed and reimagined by someone else. Two of newly launched TubeFlash’s major partners—BBC ARTS and Transport for London—corroborate the podcast’s unifying motif,where creative storytelling meets urban engagement: flash fiction inspired by the London Underground. Scientific inquiry has yet to conclude whether the average Underground commuter—expressionless, self-contained, or pointedly shielded by iPhones or the Evening Standardwould display any emotional reaction whether a Tube car inexplicably flooded with boiling tea. The London Underground is possibly the most iconic global transportation system to best capture its culture’s defining characteristic—the British stiff upper lip.” whether administered as a public service by its first namesake,TubeFlash— whose tales span genres, from romantic comedy to crime drama—could help to loosen the rigid jawlines of many Londoners. Contributed by TuneIn Editor, or Megan Bradshaw (Find her on Twitter @MReneBradshaw)
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