Almost Tangible: Best Narrators at the APAs
Fun fact! 🤓 Almost Tangible has been represented in the Best Narrator category at the Audio UK Audio Production Awards for the last five consecutive years – even back when it was still called Audio Performer of the Year! We have been fortunate enough to take home three Golds, a Silver, and a Bronze, and are thrilled again to have TWO nominees in the category for this year's APAs: Hannah Lavery for Finding Seaglass and Rebecca LaChance for The Yellow Wallpaper.
Fingers crossed we may be able to bring home some trophies from Wednesday's ceremony, but regardless of the outcome we are so proud of every member of the AT Family!
Almost Tangible: APAs 2024
We're counting down to next week's Audio UK #APAs24. So thrilled to have six nominations for the AT Family and looking forward to celebrating the wonderful world of UK Audio with our friends and colleagues!
Almost Tangible: Finding Seaglass
Hannah Lavery has been nominated as Best Narrator at this year's Audio UK Audio Production Awards for Finding Seaglass, which she wrote and performed in an Almost Tangible/ National Theatre of Scotland co-production for BBC Radio 4 last summer. A personal and poetic exploration of loving and losing her father and growing up 'mixed-race' in Scotland, Finding Seaglass is such a special piece of radio and we are so thrilled that Hannah's beautiful narration has been recognised!
Almost Tangible: Hamlet Noir
Happy #WorldAudioDramaDay! Creating amazing, immersive audio that brings the listener to the centre of the action is at the core of what we do here at AT.
Hamlet Noir is a groundbreaking production interweaving Shakespeare's most famous play with a tantalising Nordic Noir crime drama. Having already won 7 awards, it's now a finalist for both Best Sound Design Producer (David Chilton) and Best Drama and Fiction Producer (Charlotte Melén) in the 2024 Audio Production Awards, coming up in just a few weeks. We can't wait to celebrate with the many brilliant colleagues we are nominated alongside!
Almost Tangible: Tam O'Shanter
👻 More creepy Halloween content for you! 🎃 Have you heard our haunting production of Tam O'Shanter by Robert Burns, narrated by Stephanie MacGaraidh Music? With sound design by the brilliant Jon Nicholls, who elevates Steph's narration with his spine-chilling immersive soundscape, it's perfect if you're on the hunt for a classically creepy listen this week – and available now wherever audiobooks are sold!
Almost Tangible: Glamis Ghosts
One week until Halloween! 👻 We've dug into the AT crypts to find this behind the scenes video celebrating our spoOoOky adventures Glamis Castle while recording our inaugural production, Macbeth. Would you venture into Glamis after dark? 👀
Almost Tangible: Audio Production Awards 2024
We are blown away to have been nominated for SIX Audio UK Audio Production Awards this year! Congratulations to these AT Family nominees:
🌟 Hannah Lavery – Best Narrator (Finding Seaglass)
🌟 Rebecca LaChance – Best Narrator (The Yellow Wallpaper)
🌟 David Chilton – Best Sound Producer (Hamlet Noir)
🌟🌟 Charlotte Melén – Best Drama and Fiction Producer (Hamlet Noir) AND Producer of the Year
AND Almost Tangible has been nominated for ✨ Production Company of the Year!✨
What an honour to be among such esteemed company in each of these categories.
Congratulations to all our fellow nominees and see you at #APAs24!
Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay! It’s been proven that talking openly about mental health helps us cope better, and we encourage everyone to continue erasing the stigma around these conversations.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a feminist trailblazer, but she was also far ahead of her time in exploring women’s mental health in her iconic short story, The Yellow Wallpaper. It’s a powerful and unsettling story of a young woman descending into psychosis after being confined to her bedroom by her husband following the birth of their child. Discouraged from pursuing her writing and with nothing else to occupy her mind, the woman slowly becomes obsessed with the room’s old, yellow wallpaper until she eventually loses her grip on reality.
Our haunting production of The Yellow Wallpaper, narrated by @RebeccaLaChance with sound design by @mac_ga_rae is available to download wherever audiobooks are sold.
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World Mental Health Day: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Today is World Mental Health Day! It's been proven that talking openly about mental health helps us cope better, and we encourage everyone to continue erasing the stigma around these conversations.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a feminist trailblazer, but she was also far ahead of her time in exploring women's mental health in her iconic short story, The Yellow Wallpaper. It's a powerful and unsettling story of a young woman descending into psychosis after being confined to her bedroom by her husband following the birth of their child. Discouraged from pursuing her writing and with nothing else to occupy her mind, the woman slowly becomes obsessed with the room's old, yellow wallpaper until she eventually loses her grip on reality.
Our haunting production of The Yellow Wallpaper, narrated by Rebecca LaChance with sound design by Stephanie MacGaraidh Music is available to download wherever audiobooks are sold.
From Morning to Midnight: Simon Scardifield
Simon Scardifield is the backbone of From Morning to Midnight; not only did he direct this slightly bonkers (if we do say so ourselves) production, he is also the translator and adaptor from Georg Kaiser's original German! 🤯
Though he began his career as an actor with credits at RSC and the Globe, Simon originally studied languages. His curiosity about foreign plays unknown beyond the borders of their home countries brought him to writing radio adaptations, and eventually he found himself warmly welcomed into the AT Family.
"I’ve always been excited by the agility of radio. It puts an extraordinary range of experiences within the reach of a writer, and so of an audience, too. Audio can take us into the protagonist’s head with an immediacy which, I think, Georg Kaiser, writing before radio was born, would have loved."
Don't miss FROM MORNING TO MIDNIGHT on BBC Radio 3, Sunday 22nd September at 20.00.
From Morning to Midnight: Diany Bandza
Diany Bandza plays the Sally Army Girl in FROM MORNING TO MIDNIGHT. We're so pleased to welcome her to the AT Family!
"From Morning to Midnight is such a quirky, rich and fascinating story. The surrealism makes it a treat for the imagination and perfect for radio. And told by a wonderfully talented bunch of individuals, no less."
Tune in and hear for yourself Sunday 22 September, 20.00, BBC Radio 3.
From Morning to Midnight: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor
Introducing Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, who had this to say about his experience as The Clerk:
"One person’s journey through a day, through a life, trying to make sense of the mystery of existence. It’s a timeless play because I suppose that’s what we are all trying to do all of the time, on some level. I found playing The Clerk an exciting challenge because he is trying on so many different identities to see where he belongs, to see if he can figure out who he is and where he should place himself. The challenge for the actor is to be bold in pushing the possibilities of who he thinks he could be.”
FROM MORNING TO MIDNIGHT 📻 BBC Radio 3 🗓️ 22.9.24 🕗 20.00
