FUTURES2021 is taking to the airwaves! Futures on Air is a specially curated series of programmes co-created by community groups and researchers and broadcast on community radio stations across the South West.
Mining heritage, reintroduction of beavers, hip-hop, and the mysterious world of underwater sounds are just some of the topics that will be covered in a series of programmes broadcast across BA1 Radio (Bath), Soundart Radio (Totnes) and Bradley Stoke Radio (Bristol).
FUTURES on Air is a collaboration between FUTURES and community radio practitioners Stellaria Media.
If you didn’t hear these when they were first broadcast you can listen again on the FUTURES on Air Mixcloud.
Check out the programmes we’re broadcasting across European Researchers’ Night and when to tune in below:
Bradley Stoke Radio members walk around their local Three Brooks Nature Reserve with freshwater ecologists Ian Thornhill (Bath Spa University) and Jack Greenhalgh (University of Bristol). With pond dipping, ecological conversations and underwater sounds they discuss the ecological and community networks that thrive here.
Soundart Radio: 9 am
Source FM: 10.30 am
Islands FM: 12 pm
Devon Stream : 8 pm
10 Radio: 8.30 pm
Bradley Stoke Radio: 10 am & 4 pm
BA1 Radio: 2 pm
Devon Stream: 4 pm
Radio St. Austell Bay: 9 pm
Children at Soundart Radio’s holiday club discuss the reintroduction of beavers to English rivers with Chryssa Brown (University of Exeter). They embody their new knowledge by building a dam, and playing in the river. With additional material from Mark Elliott from Devon Wildlife Trust.
Islands FM: 9am
Soundart Radio: 9.30 am
10 Radio: 11.30 am
Source FM: 3.30 pm
Devon Stream: 5 pm
Radio St. Austell Bay: 9.30 pm
Bradley Stoke Radio: 12 pm
BA1 Radio: 12 pm
Devon Stream: 7 pm
Contributors from Skylark FM visit a medieval longhouse with Daniel Maudlin and India Jolly (University of Plymouth) and Claire Partridge from Dartmoor National Park authority. The house has been occupied in different ways over the centuries, and these changes and its unique atmosphere is responded to in conversation, imagination and music.
Source FM: 9.30 am
Soundart Radio: 10 am
Devon Stream: 9 pm
10 Radio: 12.30 pm
Bradley Stoke Radio: 1 pm
BA1 Radio: 4 pm
Devon Stream: 5 pm
Islands FM: 5 pm
Radio St. Austell Bay: 10 pm
This programme hears from Rowan Halkes (University of Exeter), Sian Esther Powell (Wheal Martyn Clayworks) and Jay Elvy about the impact of mining in the China Clay area, the heritage it has created and imagining what the future holds for the landscape and communities there.
Source FM: 10 am
Soundart Radio: 10.30 am
Islands FM: 11 am
10 Radio: 11 am
Devon Stream: 6 pm
Radio St. Austell Bay: 9 pm
Islands FM: 10 am
BA1 Radio: 11 am
Bradley Stoke Radio: 3 pm
Devon Stream: 8 pm
More than 3000 people died of poverty in the Bath Union Workhouse between 1858 and 1899. They are buried in unmarked graveyards. BA1 radio joins historian John Payne, Aileen Thompson, Richard White and Sarah Morton (Bath Spa University) on a journey through the tangles of time and social justice to explore the wider Workhouse site. Including music from Bath City Jubilee Waits and poetry from John Payne.
Soundart Radio: 11 am
Source FM: 3 pm
Devon Stream: 4 pm
Bradley Stoke Radio: 11 am
10 Radio: 12 pm
BA1 Radio: 3 pm
Islands FM: 4 pm
Devon Stream: 6pm
Radio St. Austell Bay: 9.30 pm
Hip-hop artist and poet Silai Estatira reflects on the relationship between language, culture and music, with neuroscientist Sue Denham (University of Plymouth).
Islands FM: 8 am
Source FM: 9 am
Soundart Radio: 11.30 am
Devon Stream: 7 pm
10 Radio: 8 pm
Radio St. Austell Bay: 10 pm
BA1 Radio: 1 pm
Bradley Stoke Radio: 2 pm
Devon Stream: 9 pm
As part of FUTURES on Air, Morning Connections are a series of short programmes being broadcast over European Researchers’ Night on Soundart Radio exploring stimulating ideas, up to date research, in-depth discussions, and real-life stories and experiences.
FUTURES on Air shows will be broadcast on several community radio stations across the South West on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 September 2021. Check their schedules online for full details:
Bradley Stoke Radio (Bristol) or 103.4 FM locally
Soundart Radio (Totnes & Dartington) or 102.5 FM locally
Source FM (Falmouth) or 96.1 FM locally
Radio St. Austell Bay (Cornwall) or 105.6FM locally
Islands FM (Isles of Scilly) or 107.9FM locally
Coast FM (West Cornwall) or 96.5 and 97.2 FM locally
10 Radio (Wiveslicombe, Somerset) or 105.3FM locally