We have been shortlisted for the True Crime Awards 2024!
'The Crossbow Killer' is nominated for Best Serialised Podcast.
Well done to the whole team! 👏
Producer, sound design and research: Meic Parry
Narration and story: Tim Hinman
Executive Producer: Steven Rajam
Sound Mixing: Mike Woolley
Additional Production: Lyndon Jones
Original Music: Mark Roberts
Poetry: Rhys Iorwerth
An Overcoat Media production for BBC Sounds and BBC Wales
🤗 Ending homelessness by 2027. That is Finland's goal, after having already eradicated rough sleeping. The solution? Simply allocate flats to people.
🍃 Follow journalist Erika Benke as she talks to the people who have put in place this policy, and those who have benefited from it.
An Overcoat Media production for BBC World Service, produced by Olivia Humphreys.
🎼 African classical music is well and thriving. Listen to Leon Bosch as he explores the wide kaleidoscope of artists and genres through the continent.
🌍 He dismantles the idea of a single 'African' classical identity, and follows how different traditions in the east, west, north and south of Africa have interplayed with colonial, cultural and political identities.
Produced by Steven Rajam
An Overcoat Media production, for BBC Radio 3
All nine episodes of The Exploding Library are available to hear now - listen and subscribe on @BBCSounds.
In each episode a comedian explodes and unravels their most cherished cult books, paying homage to the tone and style of the original text, but blurring the lines between fact and fiction.
In the latest episode, Desiree Burch delves into Octavia E. Butler's magnificent Parable of the Sower. Produced by our own Creative Director Steven Rajam.
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We invited meditation teacher @maudehirst to curate an edition of @BBCSounds Mindful Mix.
Head to the BBC Sounds app and search for 'Mindful Mix' to listen and subscribe.
Maude selected soothing classical sounds to help you take stock, find calm and uplift your soul - featuring tranquil and healing melodies by @MaxRichtermusic, Toivo Kuula and Ethel Bilsland, plus warm musical reflections from Ravel, Grieg and Eleanor Haward.
Produced by Steven Rajam
🏡 This is the story of Emma Goldman, an anarchist who called a small Welsh town her home, after being deported from the USA in the early 20th century.
🎧 Follow Elis James as he discovers more about this extraordinary woman, and the ordinary man who helped her.
An Overcoat Media production for BBC Radio Wales.
Producer: Leonie Thomas
Executive Producer: Steven Rajam
Sound Mix: James Taylor
📚 What would you do if you had total freedom over the order you read a book in? This is what B. S. Johnson created - his 1969 novel "The Unfortunates" is a book published in a box with 27 unbound sections to be read in a random order.
👓 Hirsute comedian and crumpled polymath Rob Auton tries to decifer this work, in this new episode of The Exploding Library.
An Overcoat Media production for BBC Radio 4.
Producer: Benjamin Partridge
🤔 “Am I fact or am I fiction?” That is a question that has haunted almost every performer who’s stepped onto a stage and seen their ‘real’ self and ‘stage’ selves blur. Fevvers, Angela Carter's main character in "Nights at the Circus", is also no stranger to that question.
💃 Follow Kiri Pritchard Maclean as she explores Carter's feminism and considers the performer underneath the greasepaint.
📚 This is a brand new series of The Exploding Library, where a trio of comedians explode and unravel their most cherished cult books, paying homage to the tone and style of the original text - and blurring and warping the lines between fact and fiction.
Producer: Leonie Thomas
An Overcoat Media production for BBC Radio 4
Who on earth would have a crossbow, in the middle of the night, in rural Anglesey?
Listen to all 6 episodes of The Crossbow Killer on @bbcsounds or wherever you get your podcasts.
We loved working with the superstar Formula 1 driver CharlesLeclercOfficiel on an edition of Mindful Mix for BBC Sounds with a selection of his favourite soothing piano music, including one of his own personal compositions.
Everyone should find time to slow down every once in a while... 🏁
Playlist includes works by Einaudi, Ravel and Hans Zimmer - with textures and harmonies from Clara Schumann, George Antheil and @yiruma.official to help your cares evaporate away.
Mindful Mix | Listen and Subscribe on @BBCSounds 🎧 search for 'Mindful Mix'
Produced by Steven Rajam
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