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Falling Tree Productions
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We make documentaries and audio art for radio, podcasts and public spaces.

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It was one of the highlights of our radio work to document with @audreygillan.bsky.social George's life with his pal Tara, who died in 2024
George and Audrey smile at a camera, the sunlight shining onto the lens George and Tara stand together in Spitalfields, London, staring into the camera George as a child in his school uniform, cheekily smiling at the camera
November 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Today we went to the St Martin-in-the-Fields vigil to remember George Crompton, one of the 208 people experiencing homelessness who died in the last year in London.
George sits on a doorstep in Spitalfields, London, smoking a cigarette and smiling at the camera. One of the cards from the act of rememberance, the text reads "A Service of Commemoration. Thursday 13th November 2025. We remember all people who have been homeless who have died in the last year especially: George Crompton. Please take this card away to remember this person during the coming year or write the name of someone you would like to remember. We will remember them. This vigil is organised by St Martin-in-the-Fields, Connection at St Martin's, St Martin-in-the-Fields Charity, Housing Justice and The Museum of Homelessness"
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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In the company of other poets, @carolinebirduk.bsky.social explores the silences when it feels like words have left you.

Listen to When the Words Leave on BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

@oliverinthenorth.bsky.social @hannahcopley.bsky.social

Music - Phil Smith
Prod - Eleanor McDowall
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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In this week’s Between the Ears, saxophonist Pauli Lyytinen travels to Sápmi, to Ohcejohka (Utsjoki), to visit his friend, writer–musician Niillas Holmberg.

The two artists go rowing in the river, improvise under the Sámi bridge, and make music with birds… www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
November 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Listen to The Last Cowboys on The Documentary podcast from the BBC World Service - a long-haul view of the life of modern truckers in Europe

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
October 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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There are so many problems in the world. For the past 3 years, Estonian clown Julia Masli - armed with a microphone taped to a mannequin leg - has been trying to solve them.

Listen to Problems with Julia Masli on Radio 4 at 7.15pm or later on the Illuminated podcast

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
October 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Thank you for sharing this! Saw Angie Zelter was arrested again recently… novaramedia.com/2025/09/07/p...
“Several elderly women ranging in age from 66 to 78 told Novara Media that they felt a “duty” as the older generation to put themselves on the line in Saturday’s action. Veteran peace activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Angie Zelter, 74, told Novara Media that she thought the police were “just hoping we all go away – but most of us are quite old and we’re determined to stay… to put pressure on this government to stop aiding and abetting genocide”. Zelter said footage of elderly people being dragged away shows the public that “there’s something very broken about our society”.”
October 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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“Nuanced, layered and poetic…” tomorrow night’s BBC Radio 4 Illuminated ‘Where the Distance Shimmers’ is @radiotimes.bsky.social documentary pick of the week www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Presented by @ladymissbarton.bsky.social
Produced by Alan Hall
A photo of the Radio Times magazine pick of the week for Where the Distance Shimmers on BBC Radio 4. The text reads “Route 66, the 2,448-mile highway from Chicago to Santa Monica in the United States was decommissioned 40 years ago, killing off many of the towns along the ‘mother road’ with it. This documentary from Laura Barton (the woman behind Radio 4’s Notes on Music) is a nuanced, layered and poetic take on the route and the nostalgia surrounding the idea of the American West. Interviewees include 98-year-old Angel Delgadillo, who helped secure the road’s historic status back in 1987. He does still get his kicks from Route 66 - even if that’s by talking to tourists and journalists.”
September 13, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Delighted to see Dust - from our Lights Out podcast - featured in Aesthetica Festival’s first ever official audio selection

Drawing on ideas in his book, On Time and Water, @andrimagnason.bsky.social and the artist Katie Paterson explore how our imagination can help us hold the moment we live in
September 4, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Touched to see @josielong.bsky.social’s Short Cuts in the top twenty of this list voted by audio creators!

Thank you to everyone who voted and for the kind words about the series!

www.leftofdialmedia.com/elp-shortcuts
A heading that reads ‘Essential Listening Poll. The Greatest 100 Podcasts of All Time. Your favourite Podcaster’s favourite podcast’ and the Short Cuts logo Voted number 17, the text reads “BBC Short Cuts is a quietly dazzling mosaic of miniature documentaries—curated with elegance and curiosity, it celebrates the art of the short form, where fleeting moments and eccentric voices are stitched together into something unexpectedly profound.” The text reads, “"Short Cuts is a gem of a show. The beauty and delight of this show was in discovering the power of storytelling sound, in short form. The pieces on this variety show ranged in style and format -- but were always transporting. Podcasting could use more shows like this, especially in this age of video takeover. This show proves the merit of audio as its own art form." - Leital Molad, WaitWhat” The text reads “Short Cuts is a jewel box of audio storytelling—curated with elegance and emotional precision by Josie Long, it brings together miniature documentaries, sound art, and personal reflections into thematic meditations that feel both expansive and intimate. Each episode is a carefully assembled collage, where form is as important as content, and where the boundaries of nonfiction are gently, creatively blurred. With its lyrical sensibility and global scope, Short Cuts stands as a testament to the expressive possibilities of radio—an anthology that celebrates the fragment, the fleeting, and the deeply felt, all in under thirty minutes.”
August 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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With playwrights Dawn King and Georgia Bruce, director Atri Banerjee and Cress Brown of Cutting the Tightrope.

Produced by Alan Hall
Mixed by @mikemixes.bsky.social

Listen at 4pm today - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
August 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Broken friendship, typefaces, lost words, self-destruction and the legacies we didn’t intend to leave…

Listen to Souvenirs (produced by @allusionistshow.bsky.social’s @helenzaltzman.bsky.social and @martinaustwick.bsky.social) in tomorrow’s Artworks on BBC Radio 4

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
July 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Based on four years of fieldwork by collaborators @bonganikona.bsky.social and @catherineboulle.bsky.social, ‘Time, Paper, Bone’ is an intimate portrait of one woman’s lifelong quest for closure, and South Africa’s long reckoning with the injustices of the past.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
July 18, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Nombulelo Booi last saw her father – anti-apartheid activist James Booi – in 1963. He was dragged into an armoured police vehicle in the early hours of the morning and never seen again. Decades later, Nombulelo works with South Africa’s Missing Persons Task Team to find the remains of her father
July 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Monsoon by @storiesandsound.bsky.social closes this current series of mini Between the Ears on BBC Radio 3

A collage of associations with the Western Indian Ocean trade winds, from the primordial to the personal - a meditative exploration of the polyphonies we carry - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
July 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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In tonight’s miniature Between the Ears, Kristina Loring explores points of human connection in the eye of the storm.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
July 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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In this edition of weather-inspired miniature Between the Ears - summer rains, storms of songs and memories encapsulated in the noise of early home recordings on wax cylinders.

Featuring Luke Owen, the founder of the label Death Is Not The End.

Produced by Adomas Zubė www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
July 2, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Weathering by @phoebemcindoe.bsky.social is tonight’s miniature Between the Ears… 🌧️

Lucy Edwards explores what it means to sense the changing seasons through sound and touch.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
July 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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A new series of miniature Between the Ears starts tonight on BBC Radio 3 with @miyukij.bsky.social walking Into the Mire…

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
June 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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In the final episode of Half-Life on BBC Radio 4 this morning, Joe Dunthorne follows the opening of a public memorial and engages with a private reckoning.

Listen to A Fracture here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
June 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Come and hear this banger from 1979 for example…

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June 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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A real privilege to be there alongside the people who started the Staggering in the Dark night - a raucous, tender, warm place for people to talk about grief in a Brighton pub.

Here are Jen and Clark who collected the award on Phil’s behalf…
Clark and Jen smiling whilst holding the Sandford award for Staggering in the Dark Jen holds the award aloft in front of Lambeth Palace
June 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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The City Forgets - episode 7 of Half-Life airs on BBC Radio 4 this morning - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

In Munich, Joe Dunthorne traces a very different side to his family history, events that were left out of his great-grandfather’s memoir.
June 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Congratulations to Phil Smith who won the #Sandford2025 Radio award tonight for his documentary Staggering in the Dark!

Listen here - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Text reads “winner: radio / audio. Staggering in the Dark. Falling Tree productions for BBC Radio 3”
June 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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June 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM