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Falling Tree Productions

@fallingtreeprod.bsky.social
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We make documentaries and audio art for radio, podcasts and public spaces. Subscribe to the Falling Tree podcast to listen to audio docs and radio features from our three decades of radio-making - podfollow.com/6812121787 www.fallingtree.co.uk

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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 12h
In the meantime, there is a free guide to Wikipedia editing on the brilliant @soundfieldsjournal.bsky.social website - www.soundfields.org/library-out-...
A collage of three different skies (blue, dusky, turbulent with a flock of seagulls caught in the wind) and a field of daisies opening up to the sun. The text reads A Library Out of Air
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 12h
UPDATE: Our run of 250 Wikipedia-editing pocket guides for A Library Out of Air are now completely sold out but we are planning a reprint! If you'd be interested in getting a copy (or want a bundle for a festival or class you teach) then get in touch! weirdnoisezine.bigcartel.com
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Weird Noise Zine
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And now - thanks to Tony Macaluso - it looks like this!! Want to help build A Library Out of Air? Learn more about our collaborative project with @soundfieldsjournal.bsky.social here - www.soundfields.org/library-out-...
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Last weekend the entire three-sentence-long Wikipedia page for Sound Archive could be captured in a single screenshot…
A Wikipedia page headed ‘Sound Archive’. It is three sentences long.
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh mate I don’t know…
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David Hendy @davidhendy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
BBC cuts, which include two long-running series with the words ‘thinking’ in the title.
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BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours
The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What do you hear when you watch sport? Dennis Baxter, the sound designer of the 2012 London Olympics, guides you through the sonic worlds of sports broadcasting. Listen to Falling Tree podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f... The Sound of Sport was originally produced by @pezzatronic.bsky.social in 2011
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Very excited to see radio clubs in Melbourne and Philadelphia getting big bundles so they can edit Wikipedia together! A dream! There’s also a free online version below on @soundfieldsjournal.bsky.social if you’d like to help the library out of air… bsky.app/profile/fall...
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Posting out the first bundle of these today! *Nearly 75% gone* if you’d like to grab one for £2.50 there’s a link here - weirdnoisezine.bigcartel.com
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Weird Noise @weirdnoisezine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW ZINE - A Library Out of Air! Learn more in the Falling Tree quarterly newsletter below… weirdnoisezine.bigcartel.com/product/a-li...
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A Library Out of Air
An A6, 20-page guide to editing Wikipedia and essay on the evaporating artforms of radio and podcasting. Printed at PRINT.WORK in Leeds. Shipped with accompanying postcard. Over the next year, Falling...
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Or you can use this free @soundfieldsjournal.bsky.social guide online - www.soundfields.org/library-out-...
A collage of different skies and daisies reaching into the sun. Text reads ‘a library out of air’
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
But this is easy to fix! To that end we’ve made a (cheap and beautiful!) @weirdnoisezine.bsky.social A6 guide to Wikipedia editing. You can get yourself a copy here - weirdnoisezine.bigcartel.com/product/a-li...
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A Library Out of Air
An A6, 20-page guide to editing Wikipedia and essay on the evaporating artforms of radio and podcasting. Printed at PRINT.WORK in Leeds. Shipped with accompanying postcard. Over the next year, Falling...
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wikipedia is shaping every single search engine result, every single AI query… try searching for “radio documentary” now and discover the first result… a Wiki page with a biased short history of American radio and one paragraph for the rest of the world
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We launched A Library Out of Air at this year’s XMTR Festival, alongside @soundfieldsjournal.bsky.social @kallipearl.bsky.social A collective effort to improve access to the artistic histories of radio and podcasting on Wikipedia!
A collage of Wikipedia dead ends ‘this page does not exist’ next to the names of makers, shows, concepts…
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Building libraries out of air, the new Falling Tree archive podcast and a search for a shared audio language… Read our latest quarterly newsletter here - substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The Poet and the Journalist
Building a Library Out of Air, a new Falling Tree archive podcast and the search for an audio language
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Step inside the House of Dreams… today’s edition of the Falling Tree podcast The artist Stephen Wright has spent years transforming every inch of the house he lives in into a work of art - reverberating with love, dreams, fantasies and past lives. Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
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Lucy Potter @lucypotter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Catching up with the BBC doc 'Faithless', which follows people who have left a religion. It highlights the lived experiences of growing up in what they term ‘high-control’ religions, the risks of leaving, and the challenges of navigating life afterwards. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Illuminated - Faithless - BBC Sounds
Examining the line between religious devotion and unhealthy control.
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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Listening to the BBC Radio 4 documentary 'Faithless' last night, I was moved by the courage of the apostates who shared their stories, and heartened to see the BBC spotlight such an underrepresented group. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Illuminated - Faithless - BBC Sounds
Examining the line between religious devotion and unhealthy control.
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy 80th to the Third! Here’s the anniversary doc Alan Hall made for their 60th… m.soundcloud.com/fallingtreep...
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Three And The Third
Stream Three And The Third by Falling Tree Productions on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tonight, in Illuminated on Radio 4, listen to Faithless… An exploration of the difficult line between deep religious devotion and unhealthy control, through the stories of four people who chose to leave their faith. Prod May Robson Music by @listentosteve.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
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Field Recordings @fieldrecordings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Crystal Palace Band warm up before the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain, York, UK on 20th September 2026 – by Alan Hall @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social fieldrecordings.xyz/2026/09/24/c...
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Alex Lewis @alexjrlewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A formative & canonical audio documentary for me (and many others). Perfect listening for today's autumn equinox.
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Aw Geoff!
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Geoff McQueen @thegeoffmcq.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don’t know much about anything really. However, I do know a lot about radio features and Falling Tree are the best in the business. I can’t recommend that you subscribe to their podcast strongly enough as it’ll just be banger after banger. And WHAT a feature to start with too! Get on this.
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Listen to Everything, Nothing, Harvey Keitel on the Falling Tree podcast Available on Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f... YouTube m.youtube.com/watch?v=DNT3... Spotify open.spotify.com/show/0gLILCS...
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Here’s to another quarter of a century! We’re so lucky that @transom.bsky.social exists. Took very few photos of the many inspiring talks (except @taliaaugustidis.bsky.social holding up this picture of a horse) but returning with a camera roll of water and light. ✨
Talia Augustidis stands holding up a hand drawn picture of a jaunty brown horse Boats docked on a calm sea, blue sky overheadThe setting sun illuminates the trees
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A beautiful celebration of @transom.bsky.social in Woods Hole, Massachusetts this weekend. One of the world’s most generous audio resources and creative centres for radio. We heard howling wolves at listening parties under the stars, talks infused with a deep love of radio and its possibilities…
A fallen branch dangles precariously amidst telegraph wires. The tops of the trees are lit with a golden light  A garden filled with people listening under the starsAn empty sandy beach, trees in the distance, blue skies overheadThe shadows of people gathering on a beach in the darkness for a nighttime swim
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Also available on YouTube for people who want to listen to radio features while a splatter of green paint very, very slowly - almost imperceptibly - disappears… (visualised podcasting at its finest) m.youtube.com/watch?v=x6U_...
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Introducing: Falling Tree
YouTube video by Falling Tree
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Documentaries that invite a closer listen… We’re launching a new podcast built from nearly three decades of our Falling Tree documentary archives! Listen to Falling Tree for innovative docs, radio features and audio art - podfollow.com/6812121787
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efriend @efriend.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Listening to Problems with Julia Masli from @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social and it's absolutely lovely
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Problems with Julia Masli
Stream Problems with Julia Masli by Falling Tree Productions on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thanks for listening! All credit to producers @taliaaugustidis.bsky.social and Julia Masli!
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Radio art heaven on the airwaves now until late September! 👇
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Sound School Podcast @soundschoolpodcast.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Warm up your headphones! "Old School Sound School" a series featuring classic and weird docs 20+ years old. Coming soon! @prx.org @transom.bsky.social.
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Coming Soon: Old School Sound School
Coming Soon: Old School Sound School - Transom
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Nick S @holgate.permanent.red · 13/08/2026
(I see that all of the late Piers Plowright's recommendations here are available for listening; the lovely strange recent Midsummer Dreaming sequence on R3 is not, alas.) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...
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BBC Radio 4 - Seriously..., Seriously... - Piers Plowright introduces a collection of his favourite documentaries for Seriously...
Legendary documentarian Piers Plowright picks a selection of favourites from Radio 4.
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
'Death is the car you are waiting in.' Such an thought-provoking, hopeful listen this. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Illuminated - The Metaphor Consultant - BBC Sounds
The poet Jack Underwood offers his services as a metaphor consultant, for a reasonable fee
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Garrett Tiedemann @whitewhalepod.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Resharing Continuous Wave from last week for those who missed it. Though, from the response, it seems like many have not. @bartona104.bsky.social continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/sound-is-a... Also, go listen to the pieces from @99pi.org & @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social. They will make your life better!
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Sound is a Time Machine
Filmmaker and sound designer Garrett Tiedemann became enchanted by the cinematic capacity of audio. He worries that podcasting is abandoning its world-building superpower for nothing in return.
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Julia Barton @bartona104.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"The key to radio's future does not lie, as so many broadcasters seem to think, in doing more cheaply what television can do…Rather the key to radio's future lies in another direction: doing the things that television cannot do." — Jack Gould, NYT, 1952. We've been trying, Jack!
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Garrett Tiedemann @whitewhalepod.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Had the pleasure of writing something for Continuous Wave from @bartona104.bsky.social and it’s out today. Check it out if you have the time and subscribe to her amazing newsletter if you have not already! She is doing amazing work.
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mudar salimeh @mdrsalimeh.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
If this branch had been bigger, we would have had a tree of butterflies.
polyommatus butterflies
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Sound School Podcast @soundschoolpodcast.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A friend texted me the other day. Instead of typing "Sound School" she typed "Sounds Cool." I thought "Heck yeah!" The latest ep featres cool sounds from @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social, Georgia Walker, and @theradiophonic.bsky.social. @prx.org @transom.bsky.social transom.org/2026/sounds-...
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Sounds Cool!
Sounds Cool! - Transom
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Listen to Half-Life in The History Podcast - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - The History Podcast, Half-Life
Reading his great-grandfather's memoir, Joe Dunthorne discovers a disturbing confession.
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"Half-Life is an excellent example of how narrative and non-fiction storytelling can capture the truth and prompt listeners to press play on the next episode... I was spellbound." Half-Life is in @transom.bsky.social's Sound School Podcast - 'Sounds Cool' (!) transom.org/2026/sounds-...
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Sounds Cool!
Sounds Cool! - Transom
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Radio Atlas @radioatlas.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Meaning emerges from a soundscape of bells in today’s Radio Atlas podcast… listen to Everything Has Its Own Story by @mariamargaronis.bsky.social www.radioatlas.org/everything-h...
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Thank you!
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Listen to Half-Life in The History Podcast www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Written and presented by Joe Dunthorne Produced and sound designed by Eleanor McDowall Music by @jeremywarmsley.bsky.social Story Consultant @sarahgeis.bsky.social Mix @mikemixes.bsky.social Exec Alan Hall
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BBC Radio 4 - The History Podcast, Half-Life
Reading his great-grandfather's memoir, Joe Dunthorne discovers a disturbing confession.
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Great to see our BBC Radio 4 podcast Half-Life nominated in both the Documentary and History categories at this year's British Podcast Awards! www.britishpodcastawards.com/shortlist-2026
Text reads 2026 Shortlist on a background of pinks, oranges and greens. The British Podcast Awards logo in the top right hand corner.
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
It’s your last night to listen to Midsummer Dreaming before it disappears from BBC Sounds… www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
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BBC Sounds - Midsummer Dreaming - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of Midsummer Dreaming on BBC Sounds.
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Thanks for listening!
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Maj Duckworth | Trice @majduckworth.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Love how the voices are cut and overlap in this.. (gonna bite it for my own work 😬) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Midsummer Dreaming - Twilight - BBC Sounds
From sunset until sunrise on the solstice, a night of dream-like radio documentaries.
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Tim Barraclough @timrb60.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Just a week left to listen to this amazing collection of programmes. It’s doubtful you’ll hear better radio this year.
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Midsummer Dreaming - Twilight - BBC Sounds
From sunset until sunrise on the solstice, a night of dream-like radio documentaries.
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