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For Our Mothers

Playwrighting for Teachers

Registration is now open for our latest celebration of lyrical tribute writing for Mulberry Schools Trust. Aimed at girls aged 11-18, For Our Mothers challenges them to write a prose or poetry tribute to any maternal figure in their lives. 

Playwrighting for Teachers

Playwrighting for Teachers

Booking is now open for our new Playwrighting for Teachers course, led by our artistic director Fin Kennedy. Fully online, the course can be attended from anywhere, and up to four teachers from one school can attend together.

Being and Not Being

Letters to Our Daughters

Two new 25-minute sound installations for The National Archives, inspired by multilingual military training materials from World War Two in Swahili and Hindustani.


Being and Not Being was commissioned as part of The National Archives' commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in 2025.

Letters to Our Daughters

From May to Etta, with Love

Letters to Our Daughters

International lyrical letter writing competition for Mulberry Schools Trust, featuring 6 x 2-min audio recordings of finalists from India, Mexico and the UK, and a free downloadable book of writing by 11-18 year old girls.


A subsequent project, For Our Mothers, is ongoing.

From May to Etta, with Love

From May to Etta, with Love

From May to Etta, with Love

Six 5-minute audio dramas for Glamorgan Archives and The National Archives, inspired by a mysterious photo collection from 1920s Cardiff, Wales.

Grime Travel

From May to Etta, with Love

From May to Etta, with Love

A live history walking tour of the Bow Heritage Trail in pure grime. A pilot project for Roman Road Trust and Queen Mary University of London.

Museum of Stories

Museum of Stories

Museum of Stories

A geolocative audio walk of a high street, featuring stories told by real residents pinned to the locations where they happened. The free app is now available in app stores. 

Highway of Dreams

Museum of Stories

Museum of Stories

A geolocative bus journey down the A2 road in Kent, featuring audio recreations of local residents' dreams, pinned to the places where they dreamt them. A piece of creative consultancy for Ideas Test.

Eternal Telephone

Museum of Stories

The Bulletin & Persons Unknown

An audio installation for the British Museum to accompany Four Lives, a new exhibition about migration and identity in the ancient world. Opening December 2023 and accessed in-gallery via a QR code. 

The Bulletin & Persons Unknown

The Bulletin & Persons Unknown

The Bulletin & Persons Unknown

A double bill of new audio dramas for The National Archives, about the Irish War of Independence 1920-21. Now available for free online.

New Histories

The Bulletin & Persons Unknown

New Histories

A community audio drama project, using colonial-era statues as the inspiration to tell some new, more contemporary stories about an area and its people. Four new dramas from the 2022 pilot are now available free online.

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