CULTURE COURT
With hybrids of audio narrative/music/monologue/soundscape since the seventies. CC is his digital platform. Also features work by John Celona
http://www.culturecourt.com/Audio/CCaudio.htm

THE AUDIBLE PICTURE SHOW
Run by artist Matt Hulse. Matt's being making innovative short films for a while now, and you can find out more about him at www.idlevice.com. The Audible Picture Show is a project whereby Matt asks fellow film-makers to make short films, with no image present, for a cinema release. You can hear a short clip from each piece but if you've been to a screening let me know what it was like...
http://www.audiblepictureshow.org.uk/

SONIC POSTCARDS
This is a fantastic project set up by the Sonic Arts Network to encourage young schoolchildren to think about sound in a creative way. Use your arrow keys to navigate a cute-looking sonic explorer around the map. When she lands on a hotspot you can hear some of the work created by the schoolchildren.
http://www.sonicpostcards.org/

THIRD COAST FESTIVAL
If you haven't visited the Third Coast Festival site before, have a good look around. There's a great selection of audio programmes from around the world and they have a couple of podcasts that are well worth signing up for.
http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/shortdocs_2007_archive.asp

ARTE RADIO FILM:
The Audiotheque loves convergence, so the first piece of content in this newsletter devoted to short-form audio is, er, a short film. Thrill to the behind-the-scenes footage of Arte Radio in action, gasp at their success in attracting hip Parisian types to the site and marvel at their description of pre-Arte audio drama as a tired, ridiculous medium for the over-60s. Directed by me and edited by mini-genius Des Burkinshaw...
http://blogs.arte.tv/Arteradio

RESORT:
"Resort" is their riposte to Radio 4's "From Fact to Fiction" series (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/fromfacttofiction/), in which an audio drama based on the "big" story of the week is turned around in a week, and it's well worth comparing and contrasting the different approaches. As usual the sound production is top notch and there's some great acting. All recorded in the director's house apparently, and didn't cost a penny to make (apart from cake for the actors). Sound design by James Robinson, directed by Sasha Yevtushenko.
http://www.myspace.com/hsdlondon

WURFSENDUNG:
Deutschlandradio Kultur's Wurfsendung page have posted 3 of their "pakets" with English translations. The Wurfsendung (which I'm told translates, poorly, as "postcards") are the original inspiration for the whole Audiotheque project: ultra-short mini-dramas packaged in the same way as a commercial break and dropped randomly throughout Deutschlandradio Kultur's schedule. Brilliantly produced, witty and surprising.
http://www.dradio.de/wurf/index.php/en/Home/Wurfpaket/id/1

DARK
Dark, by Kevin Cadwallender. Kevin is an established writer of poetry and prose (http://kevcad.blogspot.com/) who wrote Dark, and created it at the University of Sunderland along with Becky Stefani and Francesca Sardone. It stars his daughter Charlie, who was 5 at the time. Dark is a haunting, sonically inventive work with great performances…

http://www.switchpod.com/f25202.html?puser=none

ON MY MIND
Here’s a very funny piece written and directed by Sasha Yevtushenko and starring Mike Holt. Flipping between flash-backs, flash-forwards and stream of consciousness, it’s nevertheless easy to follow entertaining. There’ll be more from this team in the next newsletter.

http://www.kitchenproductions.com/omm1.htm

CLINIC
Clinic’s narrative depicts a real situation, and intrigues the listener by withholding key pieces of information, leaving us wanting more without becoming frustrating. It was created and realised by Wana Udobang, a student at the University College for The Creative Arts in Farnham.

http://www.switchpod.com/f27394.html?puser=none

This is a short French piece called "Enlevé". You can find it, and much, much more on http://www.arteradio.com. I think it works...
http://www.arteradio.com/