https://maelievans.com/projects-1 daily 0.75 2018-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1527500475321-1UB9I11CXVA4RZXGJ16B/Screen+Shot+2018-05-28+at+10.40.48.png Projects https://maelievans.com/treasury daily 0.75 2018-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1582762439547-5EJWGHACFKSJ5ZIMPTQM/The-Treasury_CoverArt_Square_1080_Instagram+Feed.jpg The Treasury https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1527455702159-QMQBCBW6K3R0M9WCNSY6/play-button-png-play-button-icon-512x512_f52f18.png The Treasury https://maelievans.com/home daily 0.75 2020-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1478397007714-11Q0EMX9XY2FYT473OR8/James+Chisholm+Photography.jpg Home - Ted x University of Bristol 2016 Set design in collaboration with the STA Photo: James Chisholm Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1484322377406-41GDTWUYA3P1G87E8EBJ/Screen+Shot+2016-02-11+at+00.09.55.png Home - Myopia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1478395876542-PWWD8FCMI4ICB4FOOR9S/Screen+Shot+2016-01-07+at+13.09.57.png Home - Luke Warm Luke Warm | Writer and performer A commission by Fusebox Collective, Oct 2015 Luke Warm is an interactive storytelling performance for a single audience member at a time... A recollection, a reminiscence, a reimagining of one fateful encounter with someone from the past. It’s about the bittersweet smiles, and the acknowledgment of an ever growing abyss. Created for Diving Into The Wreckage at the Old Police Station, New Cross - an evening dedicated to exploring the wreckage in our lives and our world, with specially commissioned work ranging from performance to sound art to film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1582761389851-8NRNWZHFQVP2JEQMTZGV/c_alamy-5e3c51dd8316f.jpg Home - Does architecture always have to be a building? In the 1960s and 1970s, groups of emerging designers across the globe began experimenting with architectural forms. 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out Noguchi’s playscapes We find out more about the unrealised plans and projects of Isamu Noguchi, the celebrated Japanese-American artist, sculptor and landscape architect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/0330d65b-a19a-4cd6-a090-57efcd3172f3/ch1_017-harewood-biennial-62438d2e1ba99.jpg Weekly - On Design - Make it stand out Harewood House We head to Yorkshire for the second edition of the Harewood Biennial, one of the UK’s most exciting destination design events. This year’s event, ‘Radical Acts: Why Craft Matters’, focuses on how quality craftsmanship can change the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/9ca833a0-086d-4670-96dc-161a27ece2b7/cocol.jpg Weekly - On Design - Make it stand out Cocol We visit a homeware shop that sources artisan objects from across Spain – think crockery from Granada and tableware from Alicante – and displays contemporary wares alongside vintage finds. Its founder, Pepa Entrena, takes us on a tour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/20130548-12f1-47ab-8c3d-cb03ceb41ad9/bard.jpg Weekly - On Design - Make it stand out Bard The Edinburgh-based shop and gallery celebrates craft and design made in Scotland. We meet its co-founders, Hugo Macdonald and James Stevens https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/b37d065b-26e1-48df-bb06-414194f4de57/ch-2-canna-marie-kellen_cou-621e5eab35d25.jpg Weekly - On Design - Make it stand out Hannah Beachler The Production designer behind the world building of the Black Panther film, and Beyonce’s visual album, Lemonade, shares the story behind an ever-evolving period room, at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/77f51394-0833-4426-8f00-4d1d4fc4f43a/ch-1-cgetty-images_crop-620bea5b8f7fd.jpg Weekly - On Design - Make it stand out Kays Curling Stones Kays has swept away the competition when it comes to the production of curling stones at the Olympics. We find out more about the process of creating the stones in Ayrshire, Scotland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1613509815415-X5O21ABM79715ROA6OL4/c-studio-azzurro_crop-6000788daecbe.jpg Weekly - On Design Memphis: Plastic Field We visit MK Gallery’s exhibition 'Memphis: Plastic Field,' on the irreverent and subversive design collective. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1606511895124-3DCSCCQ8S78KINAJQUMD/drawfurngroupwiddgrassarm_crop-5f85d83c61712.jpg Weekly - On Design George Nakashima, woodworker The master furniture-maker was considered a founding father of American craft. A new documentary by Nakashima’s nephew, John, and daughter, Mira, celebrates his legacy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1590615883349-9RWR287WOZYOJSNBERFM/c_the-corita-art-center-5e45846ce9cca.jpg Weekly - On Design Who was Corita Kent? Director of Los Angeles’s Corita Art Center, Nellie Scott, tells us more about the ethos of artist, educator and designer Corita Kent, who worked in LA and Boston and was an influential figure in the pop art movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/50015dfd-04aa-45b3-8e1a-743324f49f54/clothsurgeon_crop-63b472fd3df04.jpg Weekly - On Design - Make it stand out Clothsurgeon A new arrival to London’s Savile Row is drawing a different crowd to the area with an offer of bespoke luxury streetwear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1621892336715-EUNTA6HA10L2BJTP5AW1/cnetflix_mank_selects_loveiki-60884d66578cd.jpg Weekly - On Design - Make it stand out Jan Pascale - Set decorator on Mank We speak to the Oscar-winning set decorator of ‘Mank’ Jan Pascale about the thrills of working on the critically acclaimed film and the challenges of designing in monochrome. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1617655346303-6NRJREJ16CIZOGVKGPFJ/download-1.jpg Weekly - On Design No Isolation No Isolation has developed communication tools to reduce involuntary loneliness and social isolation since 2015. 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The collective’s work combines architecture, engineering, art and design to address social challenges. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1621892471128-O6034SG50YI60F7RBSJM/cfelix-odell_210329_monocle_n-609180dc678ca.jpg Weekly - On Design - Make it stand out Best New Talent: Nkuli Mlangeni-Berg We caught up with the Sweden based, South African designer to discuss her collaborative platform The Ninevites and her efforts to make the design industry less Eurocentric. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1590615930572-ZRTJZ9U4U56EN7VULETE/c_alamy-5e3c51dd8316f.jpg Weekly - On Design Avant Garde architecture of 1960-1970s In the 1960s and 1970s, groups of emerging designers across the globe began experimenting with architectural forms. Matthew Butcher and Luke Pearson tell us more about some of the playful projects by practitioners of the time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1606511531288-BPM5ZKFLQ00JO8K5DE6R/ctendo-co.-ltd.-katsuhei-toy-5fad82bf819da.jpg Weekly - On Design The Spoke Chair Design writer and architect Naomi Pollock shares the story of the spoke chair. The piece features in Pollock’s new book, ‘Japanese Design Since 1945: A Complete Sourcebook’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1591395482352-UTMTHJ9SS4CCT30I76NT/bxfe3c_crop-5ecfd74735796.jpg Weekly - On Design Consider the Corridor Corridors get a bad rep, simply a means to getting somewhere else, or even as a passage of fear - the Shining anyone? 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We talk to the event’s director, Simon Wright, and ask Asif Khan about his contribution,’ I See You’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1606512031507-O9A1G9JP1IKSW0ZU8RK5/fake-love-letters-en-7938-stan-5f85d84e666ef.jpg Weekly - On Design Annie Atkins Designer of the props and posters that bring the cinematic universe to life, Annie Atkins tells us how her work is key to building a rich world for your favourite actors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1601846338472-S3DD836ZXRKCGS3MR5E6/download-1.jpg Weekly - On Design Designing Lightness Ed van Hinte, co-author of ‘Designing Lightness’, on why creating with weight reduction in mind isn’t as simple as it sounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1590615863431-7RZU2I1EK0ROR3WLF2I9/day-of-the-heroic-guerilla-19-5e20a996a70ad.jpg Weekly - On Design THE GOLDEN AGE OF CUBAN GRAPHIC DESIGN Posters have always sought to persuade and this week we review the work of the Organisation of Solidarity of the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America which is the subject of a bold exhibition at London’s House of Illustration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1594768632220-78Z7B7XUHRTN3BI8DVKW/Pop-up-tabernacle-for-El-Al-5-%C2%A9-The-Estate-of-George-Him.jpg Weekly - On Design George Him Olivia Ahmad, exhibition curator at the House of Illustration shares the story of Polish graphic designer George Him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1600204633790-8WT8JDX0J8HYHJFCL98G/download.jpg Weekly - On Design Optimism in design Bruce Mau is a design thinker and co-founder of Chicago-based studio Massive Change Network. He discusses his new book and the importance of optimism and care in design. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1585685548110-GM8P5AQW26D8GT3K6AMM/zc3-aerial-view_crop-5e710ddb05900.jpg Weekly - On Design YASMEEN LARI The preeminent architect, based in Pakistan is known for her ethos of ‘barefoot architecture that treads lightly on the planet. In recent years she has devoted her life to humanitarian work, producing DDR compliant structures, and reimagining a safer chulah (stove) for some of the most marginalised communities, made using local lime and mud. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1600204488957-KRJQ5T8OENJ1T9KHTO6F/ch1_gettyimages-crop-5efb88dfef155.jpg Weekly - On Design Eric Broug The founder of the School of Islamic Geometric Design explains how complex geometric patterns can take shape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1590615978113-SN04VEL8Z5ME1STDKD8E/c_alex-garcia-5dbb10830bb43.jpg Weekly - On Design GAME CHANGERS Mattel have released a new braille edition of classic card game Uno. Games expert Dr Michael James Heron explains design choices encouraging wider accessibility for the visually impaired in board games and card games. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1594768772832-O62RGQ712UP95B6JIDKC/ch33_crop-5efb88f1510f3.jpg Weekly - On Design The See-Through House We speak to the author Shelley Klein about her new memoir that charts her relationship with her childhood home, the mid-century modernist gem High Sunderland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1585684556469-86RN11GRMBK9FATBUQO7/c_victoria-and-albert-museum-5e6a5d811b1be.jpg Weekly - On Design CARS: ACCELERATING THE MODERN WORLD Cars: Accelerating the Modern World' is an exhibition at London's V&A museum examining the shifting role of the automobile in everything from social style to mechanics. We speak to its curator, Brendan Cormier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1590615905432-9HREXDYPSPVQSUXS6C50/shirley-baker-manchester-1969-5e3319c22b7e2.jpg Weekly - On Design RULES AND RISK Marjorie Allen was a postwar pioneer of the Adventure Playground movement in the UK. Her story features in “Play Well”, an exhibition at London’s Wellcome Collection. We meet the exhibition’s curator, Shamita Sharmacharja to learn more… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1621892239666-KHOTTY1E9GUAYAOBSUKT/cimage-courtesy-of-choc_rende-607f0a49e6a08.jpg Weekly - On Design - Make it stand out CHOC – How to design with architectural heritage in mind How do you design new buildings that complement the architectural heritage of a place like Palm Springs? We speak with Palm Springs’ Community Housing Opportunities Corporation (CHOC) to find out how they created apartments in line with their mid-century modern neighbours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/5915c096-9d02-4870-9798-e6bc78c4a952/choosercvictoria-and-albert-m-6255a77bd52ed.jpg Weekly - On Design - Make it stand out Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear We take a look at the newest exhibition at London’s V&A Museum that examines mens sartorial style through the ages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/5ead282a-b347-4454-ba03-d8693542a4f2/Screen+Shot+2022-06-13+at+17.42.52.jpg Weekly - On Design - Make it stand out St Bride Foundation We explore the archives to learn how this 19th-century organisation remains integral to the design community today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/a462105e-f77c-435f-8ba2-7dbc50ee7c19/kopi.jpg Weekly - On Design - Make it stand out Kopicup In Singapore, design firm Forest and Whale has developed the Kopi Cup. This reusable coffee container takes its cue from improvised solutions that casual vendors fashioned from cans in the 1950s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/6b066bd0-fdb8-40d8-ac00-ced243ee4783/ch2_n_family_brixton_hr-6_crop-6230d1309e8b0.jpg Weekly - On Design - Make it stand out A visit to N Family Club, a company that puts “imaginative spaces” at the heart of its early-years learning philosophy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/20cf63de-6941-4ce3-ac31-9489b021c466/birdie+crasmus-luckmann_crop-64a6fb97eae2c.jpg Weekly - On Design - Make it stand out Birdie Company co-founder and designer, Hans Augustenborg, discusses his analogue approach to devising a visual solution to the issue of indoor air quality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1a61b13e-8745-4932-b443-5bde605b6cd1/ch-2-cherman-miller-archive-62152066b5803.jpg Weekly - On Design - Make it stand out Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body’ Professor Kristina Wilson discusses her book, ‘Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body’ that considers how race and gender intersect with the design movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1625674667525-FGBGQ5J76T4MY8KNQ4WQ/ccristiano-corte-british-cou-60b666efed088.jpg Weekly - On Design - Make it stand out The garden of privatised delights’ We speak to Madeline Kessler, co-curator of ‘The garden of privatised delights’ - a look at the thorny issue of privatised public space across the UK. 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The ‘Forest of Change’ pavilion highlights the UN’s Global Goals for Sustainable Development. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/573ceb9e-0903-429c-b423-cd2b8e93adbb/ch-2-momu_2021_09_233136_cro-61b9c7b930537.jpg Weekly - On Design - Make it stand out Lace production and Antwerp The curator of the historical collection at Antwerp’s Momu fashion museum discusses the city’s connection to lace production. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1600203903787-2EPMRYGZV67BR34MXTFS/lido.jpg Weekly - On Design A dip in the pool We plunge headlong into the history and design of outdoor swimming pools with writer, Christopher Beanland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1592849953206-QA7ZLFPOKNUDDA642J8I/crop-6-5eeb8d50c4d41-1.jpg Weekly - On Design Hotel Carpets Pilot and photographer Bill Young tells of the mesmerising, bizarre and sometimes questionable carpets found in hotels around the globe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1617655496329-4F6ON85ZDXI9YTCZSRZP/c-courtesy-of-fernando-laposs-6047b5643002d.jpg Weekly - On Design Totomoxtle Totomoxtle, a marquetry material made from corn husks, is in development under the careful eye of Mexican designer Fernando Laposse. 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Archivist and photographer, Brian Kelley and Jesse Reed of Standards Manual survey the design history of the agency's visual identity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1613509930550-6UM1FM9TT67FG7FKOU00/cishmil-waterman_ishw9344_cro-5ff74b5dcbf0b.jpg Weekly - On Design Respectful design Dori Tunstall, dean of design at OCAD University, shares her inclusive approach to design education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1617654744038-PL1K071QZ5VMDXDGX015/cjames-newton_illuminated-riv-605a304607b86.jpg Weekly - On Design Illuminated River project The Illuminated River project in London will light five bridges in the capital this spring including Waterloo, Westminster and Blackfriars. 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In both dramatic reimagining and reality television formats, these narratives showcase ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. But why are these feats of human endurance so compelling to watch? Ellen E Jones speaks to Ray Mears, wilderness guide, bushcraft expert, and broadcaster who has spent his life teaching people how to stay alive in some of the most remote parts of the world. He shares what film and television gets wrong about survival - and why the witchetty grub deserves more reverence. Debra Granik, director of the 2018 film Leave No Trace, reflects on how sessions with a primitive skills instructor and Youtube shelter building tutorials informed her approach to filming. She also describes why survival can often include economic survival in some regions of the USA, and why a certain skillset is vital for everyday living, as evidenced in her 2010 film Winter's Bone. 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Next, the translator and film critic, Irina Margareta Nistor details her role in overdubbing bootlegged VHS tapes during the Ceaușescu dictatorship in Romania. During the 1980s, her work allowed local audiences an escape from the regime through the medium of foreign cinema. Meanwhile, Ellen discusses the poetry of translation with Darcy Paquet. The translator has produced subtitles with collaborators including the South Korean film director, Bong Joon Ho, on the Oscar award winning film, Parasite. Darcy shares the challenges found in a set character count, and some of the cultural specificities he's noted along the way. 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Producer: Mae-Li Evans A Prospect Street production for BBC Radio 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/989e625a-1cec-483d-9deb-3049258257c2/Ryuichi_Sakamoto_12_album_073c6b69fd.jpg Radio + Podcasts - Make it stand out Sakamoto - Art is long, Life is short Sunday Feature (2024) BBC Radio 3 Ryuichi Sakamoto was probably the most famous and successful Japanese musician ever. His reputation as a genius composer and musical innovator seems assured, although we are only just beginning to comprehend his oeuvre. Sakamoto coexisted in the worlds of cinema, glitzy celebrity, cutting-edge technology and avant-garde art. A year after his passing, broadcaster Nick Luscombe reflects on Sakamoto’s legacy, and asks what was so distinct and important about his prescient vision. With contributions from: Haydn Bendall, record producer and engineer Michael Bourdaghs, author and professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago Alejandro Iñárritu, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Noriko Manabe, professor of Music Theory at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Hideki Matsutake, programmer for Yellow Magic Orchestra and composer (translated by Ken Nishikawa) Aileen Mioko Smith, environmental activist David Toop, musician and author Presented by Nick Luscombe Produced by Mae-Li Evans Exec Produced by Jack Howson A Peanut & Crumb production for BBC Radio 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/10db6286-dc89-462d-b50f-900ae90b1eb8/never-rarely-sometimes-always.jpg Radio + Podcasts - Make it stand out Films That Changed the World - Screenshot (2024) BBC Radio 4 Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode explore whether films and TV can indeed make a difference. First up, Ellen talks to the award-winning independent filmmaker Eliza Hittman, whose critically acclaimed 2020 drama, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, charts the odyssey of 17 year-old Autumn, played by newcomer Sidney Flanigan from her home town in rural Pennsylvania, to her nearest accessible abortion clinic in New York City. Ellen also meets Caren Spruch, National Director for Arts and Entertainment Engagement at US-based organisation Planned Parenthood. They discuss her activism towards shaping TV and film storylines around abortion. Mark ponders how two film makers have addressed homelessness in their work - rising star Lorna Tucker who's deeply personal documentary Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son has recently brought homelessness back into the spotlight, and film legend Ken Loach who shares how his 1966 BBC TV play Cathy Come Home came to be and alerted the public and politicians alike to the country’s growing housing crisis. Producer: Mae-Li Evans A Prospect Street production for BBC Radio 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/016dc6b2-4b81-4d30-b5ed-2bb598b4335e/Screenshot+2026-01-29+at+15.32.37.png Radio + Podcasts - Make it stand out The Back Rooms | ‘The Net’ episode of Short Cuts (2024) BBC Radio 4 Word spirits, back rooms and a reply all-pocalypse - Josie Long presents short documentaries that emerge from the internet. A sound art piece inspired by internet folklore of 'The Back Rooms,' a dimension that consists of an endless labyrinth of office rooms - hallways, levels. You access them by 'noclipping' out of reality, essentially a glitch in time and land there, bound to explore for eternity. Fandom around this has grown, with folks imagining their own additional levels to this. Listeners tumble through levels of the collectively built and contested space that is ever growing in a sideways and glitching fashion. Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/ebf08b89-a362-4764-b122-e87dc5f547c4/badlands+screenshot.jpg Radio + Podcasts - Make it stand out Lovers on the Run - Screenshot (2023) BBC Radio 4 Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode hit the road to explore the lovers on the run genre, and celebrate 50 years of Terrence Malick's film debut, Badlands. Since the film’s arrival in 1973, this dreamy and twisted fairy tale has inspired countless tales of lovers escaping dead end towns for the endless road - but it wasn't the first time this story had graced the silver screen. Mark enlists the help of a friend of the show, film critic Christina Newland. They discuss the hallmarks of the genre, its film noir beginnings, and why cinema is obsessed with tales of lawless lovers. Ellen then speaks to New Queer Cinema icon, Gregg Araki, who shares his subversive and anarchic take on the genre - and his theory as to why it is a staple of American cinema. Ellen also chats to director,Jonathan Entwistle to discuss relocating his TV show End of The F***ing World to this side of the Atlantic, and whether the genre is intrinsically American. Producer: Mae-Li Evans A Prospect Street production for BBC Radio 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/8e3e8bf6-adc6-4916-bdee-8490be0cf444/aftersun-banner.jpg Radio + Podcasts - Make it stand out Home Movies - Screenshot (2023) BBC Radio 4 Screenshot is a radio series where Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode guide us through the expanding universe of the moving image revealing fascinating links and hidden gems from cinema and TV to streaming and beyond. In May 1983, Sony released the first camcorder for domestic consumers, the Betamovie. This milestone in amateur filmmaking, 40 years on, prompts Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode to explore how home movies are depicted and used in feature film. Ellen meets academic Liz Czach to find out about the history of home movies, amateur filmmaking and and how its role has shifted in today's world of the internet and Tik Tok. John Wilson, creator of the hit docufiction show How To... With John Wilson, also joins Ellen to discuss how his early experiences with found footage, and the documentaries of Bruce Brown, impacted his approach to film. Mark talks to Canadian auteur, Atom Egoyan, about how the advent of the digital camcorder and our changing relationship to video technology influenced his early films. This week's viewing note is from the director of Skate Kitchen and The Wolfpack, Crystal Moselle, who recommends a film that utilises home movie footage Producer: Mae-Li Evans A Prospect Street production for BBC Radio 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/5f265e9f-e792-40f5-a03c-6b99f253a9dd/Screenshot+2023-02-01+at+00.16.41.png Radio + Podcasts - Make it stand out Oh Yoko! Archive on 4 (2023) BBC Radio 4 “Dragon-lady”. “Witch”. “The woman who broke up the Beatles”. These are some of the labels that have been commonly used to describe Yoko Ono, a pioneering musician, artist, and activist who can plausibly claim to be the most maligned and misunderstood figure in the history of popular culture. On this edition of Archive On 4 - timed to mark her 90th birthday - you’ll hear Yoko Ono on her own terms, in her own words, via old BBC tape. Host Jennifer Lucy Allan, a music writer and broadcaster specialising in experimental sound, also assembles a collection of Ono's peers, friends, and admirers: Art historian Reiko Tomii reveals how the deprivation and danger of wartime Japan formed Ono’s artistic worldview. Sound artist Tomoko Hojo explores how an audience becomes Ono’s co-collaborator. Fluxus poet Nye Ffarrabas remembers baring her bottom for one of Ono’s seminal works. Rockstar Peaches reflects on Ono’s infamy. And music writer David Kennan asserts that Yoko is the best Beatle. Producer: Mae-Li Evans Executive Producer: Jack Howson Sound Mix: Mike Woolley A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/59fde560-ddfc-4648-8ae4-8c8495a065fa/dreamspace.png Radio + Podcasts - Make it stand out Dream Space - Podcast series for Factory International (2023) Producer for 2 episodes featuring Es Devlin and Lemn Sissay What does art have the power or potential to do, when we allow ourselves to dream? In Dream Space we take listeners on a journey through an imaginary, limitless space. There’s Infinite resources. A blank canvas. The challenge: to stage your dream art extravaganza. Hosted by Gemma Cairney. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/d6ce1a92-9bb6-4a4f-851a-af581e26c3c7/creeate+the+future+tile.png Radio + Podcasts - Make it stand out Create The Future (2023) Engineering is for everyone and impacts all our lives. At this crucial moment for humanity, it couldn’t be more relevant to listen to engineers, thinkers, and designers as they debate how our future could - and should - look. Hosted by Roma Agrawal MBE and 2022 Young Engineer of the Year George Imafidon MBE, this podcast facilitates deep conversation about how we might restructure and rebuild the world we live in, from microscopic cells to sustainable cities to intergalactic travel. Producer: Future of Motorsports episode featuring science journalist, Kit Chapman and motorsport engineering consultant Jahee Campbell-Brennan Producer: Future of Green Hydrogen featuring Caroline Hargrove and Michaela Kendall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/0dc213a1-c46f-4f2a-8136-678834976650/wellcome%2Bcollection.png Radio + Podcasts - Make it stand out The Root of the Matter | 5 part podcast Series (2022) Wellcome Collection Our lives are intrinsically entangled with the plant world: through the food we eat, the medicines we use, and the spaces we inhabit. In this five-part series, writer and maker JC Niala explores what the plant world has to teach us about being human. Join JC in conversation with growers, scientists, writers and activists on a journey through five different landscapes, from the familiarity of the garden to the seemingly hostile wasteland. We’ll take a closer look at the entanglements and stories underpinning the plant world to understand how plants can provide a lens on human health, history and belonging. Presented by JC Niala Lead Producer: Alannah Chance , Producer: Mae-Li Evans Music and sound design by Alice Boyd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/37c8da6e-3301-4235-93f7-e3f7d00b6f40/Shade+podcast+tile Radio + Podcasts - Shade Podcast - Larry Achiampong Shade Podcast Editor - Larry Achiampong episode - Listen here Producer of Fiona Compton episode, Series 3 Finale - Listen here Shade Podcast engages a wide community of creatives and activists across disciplines, who have challenged existing narratives of race and identity within their work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/5c811dc3-0eb8-4600-a9ed-dc11424c4cae/gp+south.jpg Radio + Podcasts - Make it stand out GO SOUTH - ‘Videogames’ episode on Shortcuts, BBC Radio 4 (2022) Sound art This piece of sound art was inspired by going down a wikipedia wormhole and arriving at an online version of the 1970s text based computer game, Adventure. I tried playing it for around half an hour and eventually gave up - but in those 30 minutes, felt a gamut of emotions in quick succession. Intrigue, confusion, frustration, joy at finally unlocking something simple - the realisation that urgh, there’s far more to explore. Most of us at some point have experienced this 'rookie' state - entering into a new space or world and not quite understanding the rules governing it. It’s always a humbling experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/9b63c37f-f4a1-47ab-b9f9-c1bb48087291/parkhill2c..jpg Radio + Podcasts - Make it stand out Dreams in the Air (2021) BBC Radio 4 The Dreams We Live Inside series Engineer and author Roma Agrawal explores how the built environment shapes us and what we might ask from the architects and designers who make our cities. In this episode, Roma explores a vision for post-war social housing that aims to bring lively street life to the air through generous elevated walkways called Streets in the Sky. At Sheffield’s Park Hill estate, we learn how Alison and Peter Smithson’s vision of building bustling communities at height is experienced by residents Dana and Tamara to understand how these spaces can facilitate connection and community among the towering raw concrete. Producer: Mae-Li Evans Presenter: Roma Agrawal Researcher: Nadia Mehdi Executive Producer: Katherine Godfrey Music and Sound Design by Phil Smith Mix by Nigel Appleton A Novel production for BBC Radio 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1591915614834-45R7SUTQYHJEVEC78BYS/Screen+Shot+2020-06-11+at+23.27.09.png Radio + Podcasts - The Last Bohemians Gee Vaucher The Last Bohemians (2020) independent A podcast + portrait series profiling fearless women and maverick outsiders in arts and culture SILVER AWARD for Best New Podcast - British Podcast Awards 2020 Image: Laura Kelly Exec produced by Kate Hutchinson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1591915375573-JMFIDTWI0R93091VNJ8B/SQUARE_TITLE_small_titles10.jpg Radio + Podcasts - Get Up Stand Up Now Get Up Stand Up Now (2019) Producer of two podcast episodes for Somerset House, for their summer exhibition Get Up Stand Up Now. (Reduced Listening) Nominated for Best Arts & Culture Podcast - British Podcast Awards 2020 Mothership Listen here Calling planet earth! Artist Yinka Shonibare CBE, acclaimed saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings, fashion designer Mowalola Ogunlesi, and Get Up, Stand Up Now curator Zak Ové explore themes around Black futures and afro-futurism. Presented by spoken word artist Joshua Idehen. Dream to Change the World Listen here Get Up, Stand Up Now curator Zak Ové and Gaylene Gould, British Film Institute(Head of Cinema & Events) are in conversation exploring Pressure, the 1976 film from Horace Ové CBE, its production and legacy. Artist Sonia Boyce OBE RA discusses her work as an artist and activist starting in the 1980’s with the Black Arts Movement. Spoken word artist Joshua Idehen creatively responds to the themes of activism, change and hope. (Series Exec produced by Reduced Listening https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/16797a66-1639-4881-8fa0-7a50ef906913/totality+image.png Radio + Podcasts - Make it stand out Totality, Part of ‘Deep Time,’ episode of Short Cuts on BBC Radio 4. Listen HERE A solar eclipse repeats over and over, a musical key unlocks lost memories and a life marked out in books. Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound on our experience of time. Sound design: Calum Perrin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1591915860381-0FGECEGJRIF3RYWMVT5S/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-06-11%2Bat%2B23.50.20.jpg Radio + Podcasts - Shape Newham Radio Listen here The Shape Newham Design Exhibition is an online gallery providing the opportunity to explore the design proposals for Shape Newham projects. Conducted interviews with local residents for borough wide public art projects (Newham Council, Social Broadcasting) https://maelievans.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-10-04 https://maelievans.com/installation daily 0.75 2026-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/3ee766c8-3da3-406b-bfcb-9ff9f53a6704/peace+palace+image.jpg Audio Tour + Installation - Make it stand out Peace Palace (2025) Sound Designer + Composition PEACE PALACE is an experimental soundwalk devised by artist Lina 은지 Chang. The project investigates the life of Korean activist 이준 (Yi-Jun), who was found dead along with two other Korean political emissaries shortly after they were denied entry to the Second Hague Peace Conference in 1907. Searching for alternative explanations for how and why these political figures died — namely the possibility that they were assassinated — Chang visited key locations in The Hague and recorded interviews with local residents asking what they know about his story. Comparing these interviews with others collected from Korean nationals abroad, the soundwalk asks its participants to consider the historical blindness that arises from international conflict and slippages that occur when oral history disappears. Producer: Lina Eunji Chang, Pansori Sound Studio Sound-Design and Composition: Mae-Li Evans Thank you to the Creative Industries Fund NL for their support. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/f309cb7f-328b-4425-a8bb-cc55e11e1411/Screenshot+2023-05-21+at+19.19.31.png Audio Tour + Installation - Make it stand out Tomás Saraceno In Collaboration: Web(s) of Life (2023) Producer and sound designer: Intro from the artist + 3 part audio accompaniment to the exhibition A living, collaborative and multi-species exhibition that delves into how different life forms, technologies and energy systems are connected in the climate emergency. Tomás Saraceno is a multimedia artist whose work embraces interdisciplinarity and interconnectedness across ecosystems. Saraceno’s first UK solo exhibition invites participants to consider different forms of knowledge and non-human perspectives through a range of artworks, prompts and experiences which extend past the walls of Serpentine South, into The Royal Parks and beyond. The Royal Parks Serpentine South Gallery 1 June - 10 September 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/8bb86328-baac-4235-86e4-56a237937747/Sonic+Histories+-+Strand+Entrance+HEADER+1.jpeg Audio Tour + Installation - Make it stand out SOMERSET HOUSE: SONIC HISTORIES (2022) Audio producer for a 12 part audio tour of Somerset House, featuring commissions responding to the historic site by Ava Wong-Davies, Sabrina Mahfouz, Laura Lomas and Rex Obano. Explore the hidden places and dynamic history of Somerset House with Sonic Histories, an audio experience using specially commissioned sound stories evoking the architecture, people and events that have shaped the building in its various guises. The twelve unique stories explore a rich tapestry of subjects, from a controversial seventeenth century chapel to the role of Somerset House in WWII. Sonic Histories is available through the Somerset House digital guide on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app. Download the app to your mobile device, and search for or scroll to 'Somerset House' to get started. Visitors to Somerset House can take an on-site tour of the relevant locations for each story; look out for the Sonic Histories map in Seaman's Hall and scan QR codes located around the building to access individual episodes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/3a9ab638-f3ca-4f5c-9182-720873886082/orchard+gardens.jpg Audio Tour + Installation - Make it stand out Orchard Gardens: Soundtracks to our lives | Kin Structures (2022) Pop up studio + produced an hour long mix from audio collected with residents across the estate. From Frank Sinatra to Childish Gambino, via Whitney Houston and Sonic the Hedgehog, this is one hour of sounds and stories from Orchard Gardens. Produced by Kin Structures and Mae-Li Evans, with support from Lina Chang. April 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/9a745238-dba0-4a3f-8fbf-aae463d0f057/IMG_2068.JPG Audio Tour + Installation - A Seat In Soho An immersive exhibition in Ganton Street that shared stories of residents in this iconic part of London, that wove in themes of housing security, urban nature, and post pandemic living. Produced two audio portraits for the project, documenting the actress Sheila Ruskin, and film producer, Colin Vaines. Empathy Museum (2022) Image: Satu Streatfield https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1658927710471-EKGJIFEXN3Q9R92EWQFR/IMG_2063.JPG Audio Tour + Installation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1658927694705-SMHYA95D69A9ARP0VA63/IMG_2067.JPG Audio Tour + Installation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1658927726799-GYJXN45HVK38T2OEIOWN/IMG_2068.JPG Audio Tour + Installation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1658927751583-M028Q5P90MZ1JDI4OID9/IMG_2077.JPG Audio Tour + Installation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1658927780859-IVSLTCC6MRPMENE1HIKR/IMG_2079.JPG Audio Tour + Installation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1658927778515-BUB5MUFUT1VIEEC5HEHW/IMG_2093.JPG Audio Tour + Installation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1607978313740-OU4UX3XFIRS958QW77QF/Matilda-1-768x921.jpg Audio Tour + Installation - From Where I’m Standing Producer, Matilda’s story Listen here Audio stories and portraits from 2020. A project from Empathy Museum This project celebrates a group of 34 extraordinary people, ranging from a midwife and a supermarket worker to an undertaker and an anaesthetist. Each of these storytellers shares their wisdom, kindness, hopes and fears in this unique portrait of life during the pandemic. Empathy Museum (2020) Image: Myah Jeffers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1658927550720-V5TLI4CB9VC6S9XHI92N/Matilda-1-768x921.jpeg Audio Tour + Installation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1658927554675-SCAN7GSJALTAWQS23BF8/Sceaux+Gardens+Estate%2C+Peckham.+Photograph+by+Ed+Errington.jpg Audio Tour + Installation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/1658927558098-27HRN6CM70E10YGY0XBF/Dalberg+Road%2C+Brixton.+Photograph+by+Ed+Errington.jpg Audio Tour + Installation https://maelievans.com/film daily 0.75 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/a23d58d1-ef47-4e8f-a511-d07398088d1e/Screenshot+2025-02-24+at+23.07.41.png Film - Make it stand out Safe Light | short film Sound Design Dir. Greg Bushell | UK | 2025 In Kyiv, Ukrainian photographer Vic Bákin documents youth and queer subcultures against the scars of war for his latest photo series Epitome Based in Kyiv, Ukrainian photographer Vic Bákin contemplates coming-of-age against the backdrop of war, documenting youth and queer subcultures as the country undergoes its own evolution. Seeing his focus shift as the landscape of the city transforms around him, his work investigates masculinity, fragility and belonging amid the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, carrying the weight of its context with many of his subjects now enlisted in the war. Connecting with Bákin online, London-based visual artist Greg Bushell travelled to Kyiv to capture how the war on Ukraine has affected his practice for short film Safe Light. Finding refuge in his makeshift darkroom, Bákin confronts unprocessed memories of his new reality for his latest photo series and book Epitome, recognising scarred facades and the stains of conflict in the tactile imperfections of analog formats. Shot on 16mm and Super-8 film, and scored by Ukrainian avant-garde pioneers Cukor Bila Smert' alongside artists Bryozone, Polje, Yuri Lugovskoy, Safe Light reflects on resilience and memory in a Ukraine changing under Bákin’s lens, and the power of creativity to reclaim humanity amidst destruction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/7e8cc427-bd4f-47b6-96aa-500336c9a211/Screenshot+2023-01-31+at+23.55.19.png Film - Make it stand out The Candy Lady | short film Dir. Taylor Walker | USA | 2023 Sound designer A 2D animated short film about a young Black girl who must find an alternative way to get her favorite snack after it sells out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/581e73da9f7456e5fe2f321b/fed49c9b-db17-4c78-9d57-0029eade4968/black-strangers-Graded-Still-2-1_750x300_acf_cropped.png Film - Make it stand out black strangers | short film Dir. Dan Guthrie | UK | 2022 Sound designer After seeing a mention of a man called ‘Daniel’ on a Bishop’s Transcript held in Gloucestershire Archives, Dan goes for a walk in the woods in search of the man buried in Nympsfield in 1719 and described on the Transcript as ‘a black stranger’. Whilst walking, Dan talks directly to Daniel, speculating about the parallels between him and his namesake, and about how he’s been made to feel like a ‘black stranger’ in his hometown of Stroud. black strangers is part of Right of Way, a new feature-length programme that mixes stunning new artists’ commissions with historical archive films that give a bigger picture of questions of access and inclusion in the UK countryside. This programme is presented by the ICO and LUX and supported by the BFI Film Audience Network and Arts Council England.