Stories from a small corner of an island
Goodwin Sands Radiogram is an award-winning series of podcasts about the lives of people in the south east corner of England. Part ethnography and part radio art experiment, it was conceived in August 2014 and began broadcasting on 25th January 2016.
Episodes are available through this website, on the project's Facebook page, via iTunes, Stitcher and a host of other podcasting sites and apps.
The programmes have been broadcast on Resonance FM, FPRBristol, Deal Radio and CSRfm.
For more detailed information please see the In Depth page.
The new series is currently in development but there is another live special coming up at Free Range in Canterbury on 28th March 2024.
Episodes are available through this website, on the project's Facebook page, via iTunes, Stitcher and a host of other podcasting sites and apps.
The programmes have been broadcast on Resonance FM, FPRBristol, Deal Radio and CSRfm.
For more detailed information please see the In Depth page.
The new series is currently in development but there is another live special coming up at Free Range in Canterbury on 28th March 2024.
Personnel
Ben Horner: Creator, writer & producer
Ben Horner is a sound artist, musician, producer and general audio fiddler from Deal in Kent. He holds a BA in sound art/music tech, an MA in digital media and is currently studying for a PhD in podcast documentary features. Ben has been creating audio documentary works since 2008 and also plays live as a guitarist, percussionist and laptop musician in all sorts of alt-pop and avant-garde joyfulness. He conceived the Goodwin Sands Radiogram after ongoing exposure to a raft of US podcasts whilst working in people's gardens. The project is his answer to the brilliant creativity of podcast broadcasters and producers like Nick Van Der Kolk, Brendan Baker and Jad Abumrad. His website (full of other docs and soundworks) is here.
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Peter Kelly: Announcer
A relic of 1950s Soho, Peter Kelly had a short career as a stage and television actor in his early twenties before seeking safety in marketing, eventually founding his own small creative agency, for which he also wrote and produced/directed audio and video programmes. He now lives in Deal, where he performs in poetry readings and in 2014 returned to the stage for the first time in over 50 years, to work with the Astor Theatre’s Youth and Community Theatre Project, for whom he appeared as Jacques in the July 2016 Deal Festival production of As You Like It.
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