Radiophrenia presents –
Lost in Transmission
Subtitled radio works from around the world
Lost in transmission is a series of events presenting non-English language radio works with subtitled translations in cinema spaces around Scotland. The captioning allows audiences to experience the wealth of radio art available from all over the globe in its original language in the comfortable space of a cinema – in much the same way as you might go to see a foreign language film – only here there are no pictures, just the sounds, the words and your imagination.
Radiophrenia has partnered with Radio Atlas (London, UK) and the Lucia Festival (Florence, Italy) – two organisations who specialise in translating and captioning radio in different languages – to curate programmes selected from their archives. These events will take place in cinemas in Glasgow, Dundee (in partnership with Dundee Radio Club) and Edinburgh. Each event will also include a short, live voice-based performance by a local artist.
Additionally, Radiophrenia have commissioned a new radio artwork from Harry Josephine Giles in Scots that will be presented with captions in English as the finale of the series. The piece will also be included in the next Radiophrenia festival broadcasts in September 2026 and hosted permanently on the Radio Atlas site.
These events are all about the collective listening experience, linguistic accessibility and the willingness to open our ears to sounds and voices from other places. Lost in transmission is your passport to the wide world of radio that is out there.
Lost in Transmission # 3
Radio Atlas special + Nichola Scrutton (live)
From 7pm, 25th February, 2026
GMAC Cinema, 5th Floor, Trongate 103, Glasgow.
Free but ticketed. Tickets available through Eventbrite.
For our third ‘Lost in Transmission’ we have another special evening of subtitled radio works drawn from the Radio Atlas archives. What’s more, veteran radio producer and the brains (and ears) behind the organisation, Eleanor McDowall will be here in person to introduce the programme.
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 don’t necessarily speak.
In addition to being the founder of Radio Atlas, Eleanor McDowall is also a director of award-winning London-based radio production company Falling Tree Productions. She produces radio programs and podcasts, principally for the BBC including the (sadly now retired) long-running short-form documentary series Short Cuts.
We also have a special live performance from Glasgow based composer and sound artist, Nichola Scrutton.
Nichola Scrutton is a composer, artist, and performer who creates evocative experimental works through a multifaceted sound/art practice. She produces self-directed projects, and has extensive experience working in interdisciplinary, participatory collaborations. Nichola is currently an In Motion composer with Sound and Music developing new work, and has a solo release coming out in March 2026, with support from Creative Scotland.
Radiophrenia & Dundee Radio Club present:
Lost in Transmission # 2
Radio Atlas special + Johanna Linsley (live)
From 6pm, 24th February, 2026
The Steps Theatre, Central Library, The Wellgate, Dundee, DD1 1DB
Free but ticketed. Tickets available through Eventbrite.
Our second ‘Lost in Transmission’ event is a cross organisation collaboration between Radiophrenia, Dundee Radio Club and Radio Atlas.
dundee radio club is a space for sonic exploration; a space for gathering, for listening, for sharing sounds + opening ears. Through an annual listening festival and ad-hoc online broadcasting ddrc seek auricular connection through amplifying local voices and tuning to global vibrations.
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 don’t necessarily speak.
Eleanor McDowall, founder of Radio Atlas, will be there in person to introduce the evenings programme of works.
We also have a special live performance from Johanna Linsley curated by Dundee Radio Club.
Johanna Linsley is an artist and researcher based in Dundee, where she is a Lecturer in Creative Practice at the University of Dundee. She works across performance, text, and sound and she is interested in how these forms can animate and dissolve one another. Her book Sonic Detection: Necessary Notes for Art and Performance, co-written with the late artist Rebecca Collins, is forthcoming from punctum press, and her book Form and Formlessness in Contemporary Live Art is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. She co-organises Wet Tech, a Dundee-based event series focusing on experimental sound and moving image works.
Lost in Transmission # 1
LUCIA Festival special + Nat Raha (live)
From 7pm, 6th November, 2025 – Free but ticketed
GMAC Cinema – 5th Floor, Trongate 103, Glasgow
Tickets available through Eventbrite
The first of our new ‘Lost in Transmission’ series is curated by Italian organisation LUCIA whose annual international festival dedicated to the listening of radio works and podcasts is a celebration of the art of storytelling without images.
The festival presents audio narratives from all over the world through the production of subtitled videos (in Italian and English) to facilitate linguistic accessibility. In addition to listening sessions, LUCIA is also a calendar of live performances, sensory warm-ups and meetings with authors and audio makers. Afilliated to the YASS mentorship programme and Radio Papesse, LUCIA are pro-active in seeking out and commissioning fascinating radio works from around the world to share to wider audiences through translation and captioning.
We also have a special one-off live performance from Glasgow based poet and activist-scholar, Nat Raha in which she will present a new sonic interpretation of her book, ‘apparitions (nines)‘.
Nat Raha is the author of four books of poetry, including apparitions (nines) (Nightboat Books, 2024) and of sirens, body & faultlines (Boiler House Press, 2018). With Mijke van der Drift, Nat is co-author of Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds (Pluto Press, 2024) and co-editor of Radical Transfeminism zine.
Nat’s poetry is anthologised in 100 Queer Poems, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, and Versus Versus. Recent critical writing appears in Social Text, Queer Print in Europe, Transgender Marxism, Gestures: A Body of Work and Third Text. Performance work includes epistolary (on carceral islands), co-commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival, Scotland and TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway, Ireland, 2023. She teaches in Fine Art Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art.