A substantial mention of In The Dark in the Spectator this week following the broadcast of Short Cuts on Radio 4 (presented by our Director Nina Garthwaite)! Read here >>

Happy New Year! And to kick things off In The Dark’s Nina Garthwaite will be presenting a new series on Radio 4 showcasing just the kind of radio In The Dark holds dear in a programme called Short Cuts, produced by the brilliant Falling Tree Productions. Tune in every Tuesday at 3.00pm for the next…

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“It was exciting afterwards,” said one of the DJs featured in Lights Out, a short radio feature produced by Delaney Hall, “but while it was going on, it was scary.” He was referring to the 1977 massive blackout in New York that brought his set – along with everything else in the city – to…

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Great review of In The Dark’s all-day event, Clocks and Clouds in the Londonist! “The day involved some excellent, expertly crafted audio documentary.  It was a joy to just sit and listen with no other distractions, and to share the experience at the same time.” “Clocks and Clouds revealed a rich radio scene and proved…

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A lovely mention of In The Dark as well as recent curators The Hackney Podcast and Resonance FM in The Guardian today. Make way for the new Golden Age of British Radio! Radio head: British radio triumphs in New York By Elizabeth Mahoney Hackney Podcast’s golden win at the New York Festivals Awards demonstrates how…

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A lovely piece about In The Dark made by Sarah Stolarz for Deutsche Welle! “While films and documentaries enjoy a well-established place in the world’s cultural imagination, their aural counterpart –the Radio Feature, seems to live in a strange and much neglected no-man’s land somewhere between journalism and art. Sarah Stolarz went to meet the…

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“I’ve been saving this one up. Earlier this year I was asked (as a Representative of Speechification, no less) to attend an evening of speech radio in London. A group of about fifty – including some genuine speech radio royalty – gathered in a bar in King’s Cross to listen to a radio programme (one…

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  “What makes people listen to the radio? Music, mainly. Followed by news. And, of course, drama — the national theatre of the air. Sport, certainly, especially football on Five Live and Test Match Special. Religion, too: Sunday gets 1m listeners every week, at a time (7.10am) when most people are thought to be asleep….

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  “We’ve a long interview with Martin Amis coming up in Night Waves next Thursday – the occasion of course is his new novel which is already stirring up debate and I’m looking forward to hearing his conversation with Philip Dodd. But it was something Martin Amis wrote some time ago that came to my mind…

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