XMTR Radio Hour

Why ancient Chinese artefacts are disappearing from museums around the world, how one woman believes that trepanning is the answer to spiritual enlightenment and long life and where a Merseyside shopping reveals more than pound shop bargains.

Show Notes

Part 1: An extract from The Art of The Heist from the podcast Undiscovered produced by London based team Message Heard. This investigative piece narrated by Jake Warren and produced by Sandra Ferrari, uncovers why Chinese artefacts have been been disappearing from cultural institutions and museums around the works and are being bought by Chinese billionaire collectors and how the Chinese government might be involved.
Part 2: An extract from Amanda Fielding from The Last Bohemians podcast produced by Kate Hutchinson with this episode produced by Lucy Dearlove. The Last Bohemians is a series of interviews with women and mavericks in art and culture. This episode features Amanda Fielding an Oxfordshire baroness who founded the Beckley Foundation to research the benefits of psychedelic drugs.
Part 3: Two episodes from The Cherrytree Chronicles produced by Lucia Scazzocchio as part of a residency for Hunt&Darton's Radio Local.  Each episode is an audio vignette of a day at the shopping centre with a soft focus and different people met along the way. Here we sit down for lunch at Jeanie's Cafe. 

What is XMTR Radio Hour?

Do you find yourself stuck in the same channels? Unable to break out of the echo-chamber of your media consumption and worldview. Transmitter is here to cut through the noise. Lucia Scazzocchio from 'Social Broadcasts' scans the digital soundscape every other month to bring you original sounds, new voices and archive treasures from podcasts, radio, sound installations and anything that catches her ears.