The Shop
A place where men drink and women dream. By Viktoras Jakovlevas for LRT (2008) After the school was closed, the shop became the most importa...
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Radio Atlas
Radio Atlas is an English-language home for subtitled audio from around the world. A place to hear inventive documentaries, dramas and works of sound art that have been made in languages you...
Episodes
20 of 98 episodesEverything Has Its Own Story
Meaning emerges from a soundscape of bells By Maria Margaronis (2026) For centuries, great flocks of sheep and goats grazed the mountains of...
Has He Been Standing There All Along?
By Mette Post Riggelsen (2026) A sonic crown of sonnets about that horrible moment, when you mother dies and becomes particles of light with...
Attis in Caledon
An experimental Scots translation of ‘Catullus 63’ tells the story of a young athlete driven mad by the Mother Goddess, driven to become an...
Juror No. 10
How do you make a life or death decision? By Luis Trelles for Radio Ambulante (2018) In Puerto Rico in 2012, a jury faces the possibility of...
10 Years of Radio Atlas
Radio Atlas turned ten years old this year! To celebrate, Sheffield DocFest are hosting a special birthday screening this Thursday evening (...
Just the Three of Us
What holds everyday life together after separating? By Stefanie Müller-Frank (2026) Alone at home with her daughters, Stefanie found herself...
Monday
Parenting in a burning world By Åsa Secher (2026) It’s surreal becoming a mother when the world is on fire. To have your world become smalle...
Linda
How should the ones left behind talk to those who have died? By Leo Rehnfeldt (2026) First created for the HearSay festival in 2026, this pi...
No More Shame
“Spaciada sa Bregungia (No More Shame) is in Sardinian, or rather, in the Sardinian I have. Which is not the same thing…”...
The Issue
The body changes the horizon. By Eva De Groote and Ruben Nachtergaele (2026) Eva De Groote explores keeping her balance amidst an unfolding...
Breathing Exercise
We breathe every second of our lives without thinking about it. And yet it is so difficult to remember. By Judith Geffert for THE ECCO (2025...
Schizophonies
A tender and complex family portrait, as a sister traces the fractures left by her brother’s experiences with mental illness. By Risla...
A Circle of Men
Seasons shift, as the songs of distant whales are swallowed by the fog. Henriette Rasmussen explores the brittle and tender edges of masculi...
Old Lika Pathetic Symphony
Life and death at the Plitvice Lakes. By Čedo Prica, Zvonimir Bajsić and Maksim Jurjević for Radio Zagreb (1975) “What I do is writing with...
Forest Is
Memories entangle with the trees as we wander into the forest By Marta Medvešek for Radio Slovenija (2023) Rest, peace and silence, but also...
The Elders
Documentary recordings of laughter musically interweave in this imagined scene By Stéphane Borrel (2024) Les Anciens (The Elders) is part of...
Worried Waters of the War: Ukrainian Dreamscapes of 2022
Dreamscapes submerged in rising water By Yevhenii Poliakov (2025) Dreams calm down our worries. We overcome extreme experiences with the flo...
He Called Me His Typhoon
A conversation grows from a chance encounter on a train By Mattias Wallenius (2024) “I met Lisa on a train in the summer of 2023. She sat do...
Coming Out
A tender love story, lived in private, across five decades. By Rūta Dambravaitė and Inga Janiulytė-Temporin for LRT (2024) Vitalius and Albi...