Radio 101 invites you to contribute sound works

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Radio 101 invites you to contribute sound works, spoken work and location
recordings.

What is Radio101?
Radio 101 is a radio station that will make a single 7 1/2 hr FM broadcast
(and webcast) on the 4th of October this year. The station will broadcast
for the duration of the fatal voyage of the R101 airship that took place
on October 4th 1930. Destined for Karachi the airship came down after 7
1/2 hours at Allonne, near Beauvais in France.

Why Radio101?
Radio101 has been inspired by the different sorts of transmissions that
took place - a BBC radio broadcast in honor of the flight on the 4th Oct
1930 which played music for the passengers after dinner entertainment; the
communications from airship control; and the psychic
communications from beyond the grave in the days after the airship
crashed.

Radio101 seeks audio work, spoken word or location recordings broadly
responding to the following themes, ideas and places:

Airships (old and contemporary) see http://www.aht.ndirect.co.uk/
Empire, Imperial airways and travel (pre passenger aeroplane flights)
Air disasters (R101, Hindenburg etc)
Successful airship travel (eg R100 to Montreal)
Bedford / Cardington - site of the Royal Airship Works
Ismailia, Egypt / Karachi, Pakistan (then India and part of British
Empire) - destinations of the R101 flight
Allonne, nr. Beauvais / France – crash site
Psychic communication, Spiritualism, voices of the dead see
http://www.euro-tongil.org/swedish/english/er101.htm
1920s and 30s dance band music (Radio101 has a collection of music that
could be remixed/ sampled)
- more aspects of research and audio material given on request.

For further details mail: radio101@aeolian.net
Please include name, email address and phone contact on all
correspondence.

Deadline for expression of interest / proposal: July 24th
- by email r101@aeolian.net
Deadline for submitted work: August 31st
- send audio CD to Radio 101, BCA Gallery, 33 Castle Lane, Bedford, MK40
3XD
Confirmation of broadcast schedule September 10th
- sent by email to all who sent work in.

Min work length 5mins Max 15mins (unless otherwise agreed).
There will be a fee paid to artists for works broadcast of £75 / €110 (if
work is previously unpublished or not commercially released)

Radio101 will be part of an exhibition at BCA Gallery, Bedford, from where
the broadcast will take place. Radio 101 project by Zoe Irvine and is
supported by the Arts Council of England, Bedford Borough Council and BCA
Gallery.