http://alekskrotoski.com/tag/audio Posts tagged with "audio" - Aleks Krotoski 2015-11-03T23:03:09+00:00 Aleks Krotoski aleks@alekskrotoski.com http://alekskrotoski.com http://alekskrotoski.com/post/keep-it-in-the-ground-the-british-journalism-award-nomination Keep It In The Ground: the British Journalism Award nomination! 2015-11-03T23:03:09+00:00 2015-11-03T23:38:39+00:00 <p>Huge congratulations to the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/series/keep-it-in-the-ground">Keep it In The Ground</a> team at The Guardian for their nomination for <a href="http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/humbling-and-inspiring-full-list-finalists-british-journalism-awards-2015-revealed">Best Campaign in the British Journalism Awards</a>!</p> <p>I presented <i><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2015/mar/16/the-biggest-story-in-the-world">The Biggest Story In The World</a></i>, the campaign&#8217;s 12-episode investigative podcast series. It was a only small part of the paper-wide climate change effort, which served as the final major project of outgoing editor Alan Rusbridger. Keep It In The Ground had a dual purpose: to get real action to keep fossil fuels in the ground, and to tell an old story in a new way.</p> <p>My favourite episodes of the podcast are:</p> <p><b>Episode 5: Economics</b><br /> The Guardian&#8217;s Economics editor Larry Elliot looks at the numbers behind the three potential outcomes if we stopped using fossil fuels: deep green, light green or no green at all.</p> <p><b>Episode 6: Psychology</b><br /> In this episode, we dig deeper into the reasons why no one wants to talk about climate change, and what techniques have failed before.</p> <p><b> Episode 9: Religion</b><br /> The international spiritual institutions are probably the most crucial ingredient in persuading people to engage with the subject. What can The Guardian &#8211; and other climate change campaigners &#8211; learn from them about engagement and storytelling?</p> <p>But truth be told, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2015/mar/16/the-biggest-story-in-the-world">they&#8217;re all worth a listen</a>.</p> <p>The campaign continues! Phase II was announced in October, running up to the summit in Paris in December. Sign up and continue to make this an issue of extreme urgency and importance.</p> <p>The <span class="caps">BJA</span> gongs are distributed 1 December. In the meantime, once again: congratulations to the team!</p> http://alekskrotoski.com/post/digital-human-series-8-starts-today Digital Human series 8 starts today! 2015-10-12T11:57:50+00:00 2015-10-12T11:59:34+00:00 <p>Tune in to <span class="caps">BBC</span> Radio 4 today at 4:30pm UK time to listen to the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06gqjpt">first episode</a> of the new series of the award-winning <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n7094">Digital Human</a>! You can expect some incredible stories, plus some extended content online &#8211; including <a href="http://thedigitalhuman.tumblr.com/post/130824780466/fantastic-illustration-to-accompany-ethics-from">specially commissioned art from our resident illustrator</a>.</p> <p>It&#8217;s been a remarkable fortnight reliving the best of our more than 40 episodes every night on <span class="caps">BBC</span> Radio 4; props to our producer Vic for landing a <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06g1k5q">Pick of the Week from Isy Suttie</a> for the atmospheric and eerie celebration of <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04mc1hf">Abandon</a>.</p> <p>Vic is the first producer up this series, with more thoughtful stories about what makes us human in the 21st century. <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n7094">Listen in at 4:30pm UK time</a> (and on iPlayer after) to find out how online detectives track down the true identities of missing and found persons, when traditional detection methods have failed.</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06gqjpt">This is crowdsourcing at its most urgent.</a></p> <p>We&#8217;re on every week at the same time, so tune in! And don&#8217;t forget to check out our <a href="http://thedigitalhuman.tumblr.com">jam-packed Tumblr</a> for the background check, and exclusive goodies.</p> http://alekskrotoski.com/post/best-of-digital-human-airing-every-night-on-bbc-radio-4 Best of Digital Human airing every night on BBC Radio 4 2015-10-01T20:34:31+00:00 2015-10-01T19:27:06+00:00 <p>As we advance inexorably towards the next series of <span class="caps">BBC</span> Radio 4&#8217;s award-winning science series (hurrah!), <i><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n7094">Digital Human</a></i>, we march forward with more than 40 episodes in our arsenal. So yeah, if you&#8217;re new to the series, it might be difficult to know just where to start.</p> <p><b>We&#8217;re here to help.</b></p> <p>The team have chosen ten of our very favourite episodes to air every night on <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n7094"><span class="caps">BBC</span> Radio 4</a> at 1130pm UK (available to the world on iPlayer).</p> <p><b>Let us guide you through the morass, and aid you in your journey into Digital Human series 8 nirvana (<a href="http://alekskrotoski.com/post/digital-human-series-8-starts-12-october">starting 12 October at 4:30pm UK</a>)</b>. And once you&#8217;re there, subscribe to our <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n7094/episodes/downloads">podcast</a>. And when you want more &#8211; you know you will &#8211; then hit our amazing, overflowing <a href="http://thedigitalhuman.tumblr.com">Tumblr</a>, with all the behind-the-scenes secrets and totally specially commissioned stuff that&#8217;s filled our minds as we make the show.</p> http://alekskrotoski.com/post/digital-human-series-7-on-bbc-radio-4 Digital Human series 7 on BBC Radio 4 2015-04-14T21:05:45+00:00 2015-04-14T21:08:00+00:00 <p>Hello world! In this series of <span class="caps">BBC</span> Radio 4&#8217;s <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n7094">Digital Human</a>, we&#8217;ve gone a bit ethereal. The six episodes kicked off this week with <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05qfxfb">Secrets</a> &#8211; in which we discover whether social media is responsible for exposing a secret of my own past, kept hidden for 25 years. <blockquote>Secret holders share why and how they have used the internet to disclose their most intimate or well kept secrets &#8211; how does a compulsion to confess in a public setting effect those who the secret is about? And can this audition of secrets online naturally lead to revealing them offline?</blockquote></p> <p>Next week &#8211; on 20 April &#8211; we&#8217;re pulling a rabbit out of a hat in <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05r3ssr">Magic</a>, in which we invoke Arthur C Clarke&#8217;s Third Law: &#8220;Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.&#8221;. Discover a bit of magical thinking yourself in that episode.</p> <p>And then we&#8217;re going a bit Wild.</p> <p>But wait, there&#8217;s more! Three more! You&#8217;ll have to keep your radios tuned to <span class="caps">BBC</span> Radio 4 at 4:30pm <span class="caps">GMT</span> for the next six weeks to find out what we&#8217;ve got in store for you.</p> <p>You could also catch up with our podcast. Set your MP3 player to sook our feed <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/dh">here</a>.</p> <p>For all previous six series, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/dha">head here</a> and get cozy with our interpretation of the world in the 21st century.</p> <p>And don&#8217;t forget to delve into our back story, including all the research that went into every episode, on <a href="http://thedigitalhuman.tumblr.com">thedigitalhuman.tumblr.com</a></p> http://alekskrotoski.com/post/codes-that-changed-the-world-on-bbc-radio-4 Codes that Changed the World on BBC Radio 4 2015-04-14T20:55:21+00:00 2015-04-14T20:55:35+00:00 <p>&#8216;Engaging and insightful&#8217;: That&#8217;s how Miranda Sawyer described <span class="caps">BBC</span> Radio 4&#8217;s week-long series of 15 minute documentaries, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05qqhqp">Codes That Changed The World</a>, in <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/apr/12/codes-that-changed-the-world-page-94-max-and-ivan-radio-review">The Guardian&#8217;s review of the week&#8217;s radio</a>. In the series, we talk about <span class="caps">FORTRAN</span>, <span class="caps">COBOL</span>, Basic, Java and &#8216;Babel&#8217;.</p> <p>But before you turn that dial, what we <i>really</i> talk about in the series is how computing has transformed science, business, the living room and, well, the world. Fact fans will be thrilled to hear so many women in the programme &#8211; as coders.</p> <p>Producer Peter McManus and Researcher Elizabeth Ann Duffy and I are delighted with the incredible response!</p> <p>You can <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05qqhqp">listen to all five episodes</a> &#8211; a total of 1 hour 15 minutes &#8211; here, or </p> http://alekskrotoski.com/post/the-biggest-story-in-the-world The Biggest Story In the World 2015-03-13T13:00:51+00:00 2015-03-13T13:03:10+00:00 <p>Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has only a few months left in his post, and for his swan song at the end of what has been an extraordinary time at the helm, he&#8217;s decided to tackle <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/series/the-biggest-story-in-the-world">The Biggest Story In the World</a>: Climate Change.</p> <p>But how do he and his team intend to get people interested enough to act in what is, effectively, a 20 year old tale?</p> <p>I&#8217;m working with the award-winning team in The Guardian&#8217;s audio multi-media department to craft <b>a groundbreaking 12-episode podcast series</b> about how the news organisation grapples with the editorial and journalistic challenges posed by Rusbridger&#8217;s final project.</p> <p>This is an extraordinary series with unprecedented audio at its core; the production department has access-all-areas with their microphones. Alan and his team are opening their practices up to total scrutiny as they try to figure out how to cover <span class="caps">THE</span> story that&#8217;s been done before, and get some kind of action in the final few months Rusbridger is in his post.</p> <p>I&#8217;m on the editorial team, working with Executive Producer Francesca Panetta and the other producers to structure the narrative arc across all 12 episodes. I&#8217;m helping create 12 compelling stories in each episode and am narrating the series.</p> <p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/12/find-a-new-way-to-tell-the-story-how-the-guardian-launched-its-climate-change-campaign">Listen to the first episode now</a> &#8211; and subscribe to the rest of the series!</p> http://alekskrotoski.com/post/radio-4-digital-human-series-6 [Radio 4] Digital Human series 6 2014-10-27T16:25:46+00:00 2014-10-27T17:11:57+00:00 <p>Hey! I&#8217;m on the radio in 5 minutes!</p> <p>The latest series of the award-winning <span class="caps">BBC</span> Radio 4 series <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n7094">Digital Human</a> started when I was on the first part of leave, and we&#8217;re already at episode three of six. (I&#8217;m back to finish off the remaining three, and then disappearing again&#8230;)</p> <p>This week, we dissect <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04mc1hf">abandonment</a> &#8211; real and virtual &#8211; in the 21st century.</p> <p>Last week, we talked about <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lpxx9">Language</a>, and the week before that we focussed on <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04l0gdq">Risk</a>.</p> <p>I&#8217;m enormously proud to be part of the team creating this ongoing programme, and hope you&#8217;ll enjoy!</p> <p>It&#8217;s on at 4:30pm <span class="caps">GMT</span> every Monday (for the next four weeks). You can <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/dha">listen to every episode that&#8217;s been broadcast</a> and automatically get all the new ones if you subscribe to the podcast, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/dh">which you can do here</a>.</p> <p>And don&#8217;t forget to have a peek at <span class="caps">ALL</span> the goodies on our official tumblr: <a href="http://thedigitalhuman.tumblr.com">thedigitalhuman.tumblr.com</a></p> http://alekskrotoski.com/post/radio-4-hidden-histories-of-the-information-age [Radio 4] Hidden Histories of the Information Age 2014-10-27T13:59:22+00:00 2014-10-27T13:59:22+00:00 <p><a href=“http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04mttrp“>Hidden Histories of the Information Age</a> aired last week on <span class="caps">BBC</span> Radio 4. It was a five-part series about five of the objects on display at the new <a href="http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/Plan_your_visit/exhibitions/information_age.aspx">Information Age gallery at the Science Museum</a> (yes, where the Queen sent her first tweet from), and it was an absolutely brilliant way to discover more about the social impact of the infrastructures of the many communication media that we take for granted today. As I say in the script, the objects in the exhibition represent <i>cultural</i> moments from the last 200 years &#8211; not just technological innovations.</p> <p>My producer Deborah Cohen and I are thrilled that one of the episodes &#8211; the <span class="caps">TAT</span>-1 &#8211; was featured on this week’s <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04mh917">Radio 4’s Pick of the Week</a>!</p> <p>&lt;a href=“http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/infoage “&gt;You can still listen to them all</a>. At only 15 minutes each, that’s barely a moment of your time. But if you prefer to cherry pick your podcasts, here’s a run-down of each:</p> <p>&lt;a href=“http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lpxx3 “&gt;<b>Episode 1: Enfield Exchange</b></a><br /> The Enfield telephone exchange was one of London’s main exchanges from the early to mid 20th century. It was operated by women &#8211; girls and young ladies &#8211; who had unprecedented access to people’s homes and offices.</p> <p>This programme explores this catalyst in the shift of women’s roles in society, remarkable in the social and professional context of the tumultuous and dynamic first half of the 20th century.</p> <p>&lt;a href=“http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04m3bcc “&gt;<b>Episode 2: <span class="caps">TAT</span>-1</b></a><br /> I knew very little about the <span class="caps">TAT</span>-1 before I started working on this programme, and very little about the story of Paul Robeson, who made this technology come to life for me.</p> <p>Robeson was a shining star in the US and the UK during and after WW2, best known for his spectacular performance of Old Man River in the musical Show Boat, and for playing Othello at the Savoy in London. Hugely admired, critically acclaimed and enormously successful, Robeson ultimately lost his sheen in the eyes of the US government when he began to speak out for civil liberties for black Americans.</p> <p>The <span class="caps">TAT</span>-1 was the first transatlantic telephone cable between the US and UK that created clear, high quality sound.At the same time, Robeson’s voice was systematically being silenced by the <span class="caps">CIA</span> under Hoover. As he was no longer able to travel internationally, he and a group of lefties in London came up with a clever plan: they organised a live concert at St Pancras down the line.</p> <p>It may have been a feat of infrastructure innovation, but the <span class="caps">TAT</span>-1’s story is actually about democratising communication and bringing the voices of the silent to the ears of the crowd.</p> <p>&lt;a href=“http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04m3gc6 “&gt;<b>Episode 3: Our World</b></a><br /> As a kid, I was fascinated by the One World programme. Not because I realised that it was an incredible technological feat, but because it was (famously) when the Beatles (my favourite band at the time) performed All You Need Is Love. You know, the one where John Lennon is singing and chewing gum at the same time. Crazy rebel.</p> <p>Of course, in making this programme, I discovered that there was a heck of a lot more to the show than that. In fact, it was the very first live satellite broadcast, an incredible TV show that connected (almost) every country in the world.</p> <p>Quivering with utopian idealism, One World was an essential stepping stone into our media-enabled world</p> <p>&lt;a href=“http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04m3ftg “&gt;<b>Episode 4: Leo Computer</b></a><br /> The Leo computer was created by a delightfully mundane organisation &#8211; the Lyons Tea Shop. But it revolutionised business, ushered in the computer age and put its users at the centre of the human-computer interface.</p> <p>The boom of office work in the post-war period brought with it transformations in British culture, from gender, age and class politics to fashion, transport and city planning trends. But arguably the thing that’s had the longest lasting impact was automation. The office computer transformed business beyond recognition.</p> <p>Before the 1950s, and some way into it too, a job in the office mostly involved getting lost amongst the rows and rows of clerks calculating costs, filing papers and shuffling to and from the coffee station. There were some machines, but they were primitive and had very limited functions.</p> <p>Change came from an unlikely corner: a company that was best known for its tea shops and its range of cakes and pies.</p> <p>&lt;a href=“http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04m3jcy “&gt;<b>Episode 5: <span class="caps">GPS</span></b></a><br /> Nowadays, we use <span class="caps">GPS</span> in our cars, on our watches, on our dogs. But it was only 20 years ago that <span class="caps">GPS</span> was a little-known quantity, used by the US military in the first Gulf War.</p> <p>In this final episode of Hidden Histories of the Information Age, you can hear all about the revolutionary device that’s transformed how we navigate our world.</p> http://alekskrotoski.com/post/digital-human-at-the-radio-academy-awards [BBC Radio 4] Digital Human wins at the Radio Academy Awards 2014-07-20T17:38:18+00:00 2014-07-20T17:43:38+00:00 <p><a href="http://www.radioacademyawards.org/">The Radio Academy Awards</a> &#8211; formerly known as &#8220;the Sony&#8217;s&#8221; &#8211; are the most prestigious radio awards in the media calendar. I&#8217;m beyond delighted, proud and genuinely awestruck to announce that, on 12 May 2014, the Digital Human team won the Silver award for <b><a href="http://www.radioacademyawards.org/winners/index.cfm?winners_year=2014&winners_award_group_id=1&winners_award_category_id=1">Best Speech Programme 2014</a></b>. Here&#8217;s what the judges said:</p> <blockquote>&#8220;An innovative and fascinating series which breaks new ground exploring issues which matter more and more to each of us. Every story had a human dimension and the result was enthralling and enticing radio. It never lectured but it left the listener with a much better understanding of a digital world which, through its technology and its connections, increasingly defines how we live.&#8221;</blockquote> <p>We were up against a phenomenal roster of people &#8211; including the Deputy Prime Minster, two multi-award-winning comedians and one of my long-time heroines of the radio waves.</p> <p>It&#8217;s a few months on <a href="/media_files/Photo+on+20-07-2014+at+18.33+%232.jpg">and I&#8217;ve finally got my mitts on mine</a>, and by golly it&#8217;s got a very special place on the shelf!</p> <p>Congratulations to the amazing <span class="caps">BBC</span> Scotland team: <b>David Stenhouse, Peter McManus, Victoria McArthur, Kate Bissell, Caitlin Smith and Elizabeth Ann Duffy</b>. A remarkable group of people.</p> <p>Listen again to <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n7094">all the episodes</a>, and check out the behind-the-scenes research on our <a href="http://thedigitalhuman.tumblr.com/">Official Tumblog</a>.</p> http://alekskrotoski.com/post/bbc-radio-4s-digital-human-series-5-starts-monday-7-april BBC Radio 4's Digital Human: Series 5 starts Monday 7 April 2014-03-31T10:08:18+00:00 2014-03-31T09:19:40+00:00 <p>Our award-winning science programme, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n7094">The Digital Human</a> returns to <span class="caps">BBC</span> Radio 4 <b>next week, on Monday 7th April 2014 at 4:30pm <span class="caps">GMT</span></b>. We&#8217;re super excited about the issues we&#8217;re covering over the next six weeks &#8211; as we have been about the previous 28 episodes! &#8211; as we continue to explore what it means to be human in the 21st century.</p> <p>We won&#8217;t spoil the reveal, but I&#8217;ll give you a clue: in this series, we&#8217;re looking at invisible infrastructures that make our social worlds go &#8216;round. These are the forces that we think are concrete, but are, in reality, completely subjective. They&#8217;re society&#8217;s conceptual roadways, our ephemeral electrical cables, the intangible sewer systems and abstract communications networks that make us tick&#8230; and tock.</p> <p>We can&#8217;t wait for you to hear.</p> <p>You can listen to this series of <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n7094">The Digital Human</a> live on Monday afternoons for the next six weeks from 7 April (I&#8217;ll be livetweeting using the hashtag <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23digihuman&src=typd">#digihuman</a>), listen at your leisure on <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/">iPlayer</a>, or <a href="">subscribe to our podcast</a>. Dive into our <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/dha">archive</a>, where you can also download every episode that&#8217;s come before. Want to know about your <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nt3y2">digital legacy after you die</a>? Wondering about what effect our technologies are having on <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n9yfn">memory</a>? Should we reclaim the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03g94qw">dark</a> from the perpetually encroaching light? And how does the digital world make our global playground a too-close community for the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rvnx7">estranged</a>? Become <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rqnf5">engaged</a>, reject <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s4764">isolation</a>, spread a bit of <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rl6ck">mischief</a> and <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03cf03g">take a look around you</a>. There are so many ways we want to inspire you!</p> <p>And finally, don&#8217;t forget to <a href="http://thedigitalhuman.tumblr.com/">follow our official tumblog</a> for behind-the-scenes, extra interviews and audio and the research that goes into the series.</p>
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