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 # 5
‘Attis in Caledon’ by Harry Josephine Giles & Callie Rose Petal (ⁿᵒᵗBorges)
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‘Sucker Vent’ by Cara Tolmie (live)
7pm sharp, Thursday, 11th June 2026
Andrew Stewart Cinema, Gilmorehill, 9, University Avenue, Glasgow University , G12 8QQ
Free but ticketed
Tickets through Eventbrite
In conjunction with Thinking Culture the fifth event in our Lost in Transmission series presents an international programme of subtitled radio works from the archives of Radio Atlas and the LUCIA festival alongside the debut of two specially commissioned new works:
‘Attis in Caledon’ – an experimental Scots translation of ancient poem ‘Catallus 63’ with words and performance by Harry Josephine Giles and music and sound design by Callie Rose Petal (ⁿᵒᵗBorges).
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‘Sucker Vent’ – a live performance by vocalist, visual artist and researcher Cara Tolmie, investigating the complexity of the bind between the voice and body – of how voice can traverse internal and external realities of both the sounder and listener and how it can research various qualities of embodiment, both pleasurable and disorienting.
Attis in Caledon
This experimental Scots translation of ‘Catullus 63’ tells the story of a young athlete driven mad by the Mother Goddess, driven to become an orgiastic priestess in the wild mountain woods, in a cacophanous reimagining of the Latin classic as a trans hymn to the Caledonian Forest. “Attis in Caledon” uses the full force of Scots to create a contemporary version of galliambic metre, the ancient poetic form of Cybele’s centuries-long trans priesthood, and the poetry is complemented by original music and archival material woven together into a new work of noise alchemy. We ran through the ancient pines of Coille Choire Chuilc in the foothills of Beinn Os to bring you this magic.
Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney, living in Leith. Her latest book is the poetry collection Them! (Picador 2024). Her verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia (Picador 2021) won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction book of the year. Her poetry collections The Games (Out-Spoken Press, 2018) and Tonguit (Freight Books 2015) were between them shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Saltire Prize and the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Her stage show of her poetry sequence Drone toured internationally in 2019, and the performance of Deep Wheel Orcadia will tour in 2025. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Stirling.
Sucker Vent
Cara Tolmie spends much of her time oscillating between contexts as a vocalist, visual artist, performer, pedagogue and researcher. Her works have been performed and exhibited widely at art galleries, music festivals, biennials, conferences and in the public space – both as solo presentations and collaborative projects. Her practice at large investigates the complexity of the bind between the voice and body – of how voice can traverse internal and external realities of both the sounder and listener and how it can research various qualities of embodiment, both pleasurable and disorienting. Within this she often explores performative techniques that dis/reorient the listening relationship between the singer and their audience through live uses of defamiliarised, mesmeric and repetitive vocalisation. This investigation also extends into expanded installations that include large-scale textiles and sounding metal sculptures. In these installations, such forms create integrated listening architectures that shape how voice resonates through space, inviting audiences to encounter sound not only as performance but as a material, sensorial and spatial experience.
Cara is currently finishing a PhD in Critical Sonic Practice at Konstfack, Stockholm titled ‘Internal Singing – Sounding Through Vocalbody Disorientation’. She collaborates regularly with Rian Treanor, Stine Janvin, Susanna Marcus Jablonski, Em Silén and Julia Giertz.
Lost in Transmission # 4
Radio Atlas + Shona Macnaughton (live)
Matinee event – 2pm, Saturday, 4th April, 2026
Edinburgh Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Rd, Edinburgh, EH3 9BZ
Pay what you can: £0 / £5 / £10
Tickets available from Edinburgh Filmhouse box office.
https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/home
For our fourth ‘Lost in Transmission’ event we bring you a selection of subtitled radio works drawn from the archives of Radio Atlas (London, UK) and the Lucia Festival (Florence, Italy). Both of these organisations are dedicated to translating and subtitling radio works from around the world to make them accessible to audiences who may not necessarily speak those languages.
We are also really pleased to present a new live performance by Glasgow based performance artist Shona Macnaughton – ‘Look! She has her eyes wide open’.
Look! She has her eyes wide open is a performance about life choices made in the name of art. It both commemorates and celebrates the 18th birthday of a decision made in order to be an artist. Mixing metaphors of birthing, aborting, and creativity, the performer uses slapstick and rhythmic phrasing to embroil the audience into their own collective decision. Based on a documentary film about a French feminist organisation and their efforts to collectivise both birth and abortion, titled after a rough translation of the French ‘Regarde, elle a les yeux grand ouverts’ (1980), the performance approaches these issues from their real lived complex scale of ambivalence to trauma, with humour and tragedy. The imagined ‘baby person’ is both the performer, the audience and the life work that has led to the performance itself, and at the behest of a countdown we are asked – should it continue?
Shona Macnaughton is a performance artist, she makes live events based on artefacts from alternative political life from the past, as a monstered version of her artist self. Shona has performed and exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries, museums, theatres, gig venues, clubs, dives, virtually and on the street. Recent projects include ‘The Participatory Clinic’ (2025) Glasgow Women’s Library, ‘Creative Discharge’ (2024) AVU festival, Prague and ‘Here To Deliver’ (2020), performed internationally over the phone, commissioned by Edinburgh University’s Contemporary Art Collection.
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.