Fucked Up Bedtime Stories is an ETT podcast,
Strange stories for stranger times. With the contemporary world being the troubled, complicated, messy place it is – difficult enough for us to wrap our conscious minds around – we want to interrogate the ugly underbelly of what haunts our unconscious minds.
F**ked Up Bedtime Stories (for Adults) consists of 7 stories from 7 writers, read by leading actors and put out as a podcast and listened to by audiences right before bedtime, all exorcising different and unique horrors from our world and from our lives.
Listen to English Touring Theatre’s Podcast
F**ked Up Bedroom Stories - The Factory by Kwame Owusu
Read by Jamael Westman
F**ked Up Bedroom Stories - The Giant by Chris Bush
Read by Sophie Melville,
Both pieces: Directed by Jennifer Bakst and Sound Design by Helen Atkinson
That Podcast is a Storyglass and ETT co-production.
Hosted by Remona Aly, Desiree Burch, Sophie Duker, Terry Gilliam, Nish Kumar and Chris McCausland, That Podcast features more than 100 writers, comedians, spoken word artists, scientists, journalists, musicians, and people from all walks of life, who tell tales of the extraordinary and the everyday, in an attempt to make sense of the world we now find ourselves living in.
Alissa’s Choose Your Own Porn Adventure by Alissa Anne Jeun Yi (starts at 32min into podcast)
Writer-Performer – AJ Yi, Director – Jennifer Bakst, Sound Designer – Helen Atkinson
The Main Tip Is To Breathe by Travis Alabanza (starts at 11.50min into podcast)
Writer-Performer – Travis Alabanza, Director – Jennifer Bakst, Sound Designer – Helen Atkinson
THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS by Athena Stevens (starts 1.55min into podcast)
Writer-Performer – Athena Stevens, Director – Jennifer Bakst, Sound Designer – Helen Atkinson
Nightlight Lullabies : Community Led Audio Installation
connects audiences through the universal experience of soothing a baby to sleep across the passage of time. A sound, light and performance installation inspired by research and creative workshops with local parents.
Helen has been working closely with Murmuration Arts on a number of Nightlight Lullabies.
Listen to:
Lullaby for Crawley, Lullaby for Stockton, Lullaby for Brighton
Creator and Director Marion Duggan
Mark Thomas : Keywords Podcast
In this 6-part series, comedian and activist Mark Thomas, in his typical style of drawing attention to things the government might rather we forget, talks to essential workers about how they carried on, continuing to hold things together, while the government, in the words of Boris Johnson was ’totally fucking hopeless”. Mark asks what changed for them, what stayed the same, and what the future holds.
Listen to the series here
Mark Thomas, produced by Susan McNicholas, sound by Helen Atkinson.
Mark Thomas : Lockdown Check Up Podcast
Comedian and activist Mark Thomas has moved back in with his mum for the duration of the pandemic. He’s 57 and she’s 85. He says she’s curmudgeonly; she says he’s the most aggravating person on the planet. In this six-part podcast, he reflects on their lockdown life together while investigating the wider impact of Covid-19. Every night, Mark calls health and care workers across the country for a chat. Humbling and often heartbreaking, these conversations reveal what life is like on the coronavirus front line.
Listen here to:
Mark Thomas - Lockdown Check Up Podcast for the Welcome Trust
Hosted by Mark Thomas, sound by Helen Atkinson, produced by Nicolas Kent and Susan McNicholas,
photography by Franklyn Rodgers.
Elegy Radio Play
is a radio play exploring the experiences of gay Iraqi refugees and the UK asylum system. A young man pieces together a personal story; his is a flight from tragedy through a no-man’s land of empty train stations, border crossings and bomb-blasted towns. Based on interviews with gay Iraqi refugees, ‘Elegy’ is a moving and impassioned cri de coeur exposing the horrific realities of life in post-liberation Iraq and the injustice of the UK asylum process.
Listen here to Elegy
Transport presents Elegy – Performed by Adam Best and directed by Douglas Rintoul, sound design and editing by Helen Atkinson
Chris Bullzini Wirewalk - Norfolk and Norwich Festival
For 2019’s Festival Launch, NNF worked with a team of artists and producers to create The Journey, an immense evening of storytelling centred on a highwire walk across Norwich Market. In this post, Sound Designer Helen Atkinson charts her experience of the project, capturing voices from across the county to create a sonic story of Norfolk, migration and home.
Listen to the soundscape and read more here