Podcast Episodes

A Century of Sounds: NTS Radio special, May 2026

A Century of Sounds is a trip through one hundred years of sounds from all over the world, taken from the archives of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxfo…

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Sonic Heritage - NTS Radio special, June 2025

Cities and Memory x NTS Radio: Sonic Heritage. Originally broadcast on NTS Radio in June 2025.

Sonic Heritage is the first collection of the sounds o…

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Von Nieburhstrasse zu Savignyplatz

"The field recording of a pedestrian crossing signal at Savignyplatz, Berlin, triggered immediately the memory of myself, in my twenties, living not…

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A quiet Sunday morning ticking

A ticking pedestrian crossing (with the iconic "Ampelmann" light) at a road on Savignyplatz, Berlin, with just a few passing individual cars. 

Record…

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Spirality

"The street ambience was fairly intense and in Ableton Live I chopped and processed the traffic noises and played about with the pitch and timbres. …

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Rush hour in Guayaquil

Traffic in the centre of Guayaquil (Chile y Aguirre), Ecuador. Rush hour traffic. Hot day. 

Recorded by Jean-Jacques Martinod.

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Children of the storm

"We all have experiences of storms to a greater or lesser extent. When I first heard the recording of the storm in the Moroccan Agafay Desert, I sta…

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Agafay desert storm

This is a field recording of a storm in the Agafay desert in Morocco. Listen to the sounds of the rain pitter pattering and the loud frightening thu…

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What happened with KL1760?

"What ultimately happened to flight KL1760 Bremen-Paris...?

"You hear the flight announcement at the airport, but things quickly spiral out of contro…

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Now boarding at Gate 8

Binaural recording of ambience in a mostly quiet terminal at Bremen Airport Hans Koschnick, with frequent announcements in both German and English. …

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