Love and Labour

Bhavisha Patel
she/her
Audio Storytelling for Radio & Podcast MA

Lera is progressing rapidly in her career when she begins to dream of a stay-at-home housewife role. I follow her journey in this mini series that explores women, housework and relationships.

What I Really, Really Want…

Naomi Bloomstein
she/her
Audio Storytelling for Radio & Podcast MA

What I Really Really Want is a three-part audio documentary exploring ambition, fame, and the personal cost of chasing dreams in the highly competitive music industry. The series follows Pepi, an 80-year-old former singer who continues to pursue her dream of fame. Despite a rich career, – including a recording contract with Polydor Records, leading her own band, and playing an instrumental role in shaping the world’s best-selling girl group – lasting recognition has always remained elusive. Through Pepi’s journey, the series asks: is it ever too late to ‘make it, ’ what drives people to keep chasing their dreams, and does there ever come a time to let go?

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Noise Capital

Sofía Kourous Vázquez
she/her
Audio Storytelling for Radio & Podcast MA

A layered exploration of our relationship to our soundscape, asking how does sound become noise, and who gets to decide?

Young, Seeking, Mason

Amelie Eberle
she/her
Audio Storytelling for Radio & Podcast MA

In May 2025, a long queue of young men wraps its way around an impressive building on Great Queen Street, Covent Garden, London. The building is Freemasons’ Hall, and the young men are waiting to learn more about Freemasonry. ‘Young, Seeking, Mason’ explores why young men would want to become Freemasons in 2025, what Masonry gives them and what it really means to be a Mason.

Good Little Church Girl

Clara Harris
she/her
Audio Storytelling for Radio & Podcast MA

Raised on the red velvet pews of an evangelical Christian church in the American South, Clara was raised to believe that the world exists in stark contrasts of black and white, right and wrong, good and evil. But as Clara began to ask questions about the shades of grey she was seeing and experiencing in her girlhood, the answers were not forthcoming. In a world where the church can’t be wrong, she was left believing she must be broken. Twenty years after leaving the church, Clara untangles her complex relationship with church, faith, and confronts the legacy of religious trauma.

The Chosen

Yiming Cui
she/her
Audio Storytelling for Radio & Podcast MA

The Chosen is an audio documentary centered on the exploration of religion. The work is narrated from the first-person perspective of an atheist who came to the United Kingdom for study, and it documents and interviews three individuals who respectively adhere to Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism. Through their personal accounts, the documentary seeks to illuminate the distinctive relationships these individuals maintain with their faith traditions. The narrative is structured around four central questions: Why do people choose religious belief? How does religion influence and shape individual lives? Can faith provide stronger inner strength and a clearer sense of life direction? And why have these three world religions attained such profound and enduring influence?

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