Join us for an insightful, funny and surprising experiment in performance radio as Ben Horner's award-winning podcast makes a welcome return to Free Range. You are invited to attend the event dressed for the golden age of radio (e.g. ballgowns, dinner jackets, pipes).

Goodwin Sands Radiogram is a beautifully-crafted documentary podcast about the lives of people from the south east of the UK made by producer, composer and radio artist Ben Horner. The Goodwin Sands itself is a treacherous 10-mile-long sandbank that lies off the coastal town of Deal in the English Channel. More than 2,000 ships are thought to have been wrecked there over Deal’s 300-year history and boats continue to run aground on it to this day.

This live performance will feature Sam Bailey on piano, Oliver Perrott-Webb on guitar, Adem Hilmi on radio tuning and Peter Kelly as the Announcer.

Returning to Free Range after 2018’s popular performance, the Goodwin Sands Radiogram is part ethnography and part radio art experiment. Last year’s event was an attempt to hand control of the musical elements of the podcast to musicians who were working only from a transcript-based score; this year it is intended to develop this idea further and for Ben to rescind even more power to the live performers as they use music to thread together new interviews, soundscapes and composed radio sound. Expect a curious, honest and funny celebration of place and people in all their idiosyncratic detail