The radio hour and podcast that explores relationships between censorship, defunding and repression. Broadcast live out of Berlin on 88.4 FM monthly, and thereafter published as a podcast, with additional guest interviews dropping throughout the year. Meet performer and anthropologist Jara Nassar, independent radio activist of 10 years jewelz, and artist Alex Head. Where state repression of artistic freedom foreshadows the repression of the private citizen’s freedom of speech, this show will ...
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Starstrider Productions presents: The year is 2004. Flip-phones are in vogue, MySpace has just been launched, and Britney Spears’ Toxic is top of the charts. And Castle Dracula is about to receive a young guest for dinner… Armed with only his dictaphone, newly-minted solicitor Jonathan Harker has taken the Eurostar out of Britain and travelled to the depths of Romania, where phone service and peace of mind have become a thing of the past. But Jonathan isn’t the only one in the toils: he’s ju ...
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S1E10 - Revolution as a Creative Practice with Ahmed Tobasi
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Revolution as a Creative Practice with Ahmed Tobasi What is the revolutionary potential of art in troubled times? We sat down with long-time artistic director of the Freedom Theater Jenin, Palestine, to explore lessons on resilience and the revolutionary potential of the creative act. This show was recorded with Tobasi at the end of 2025 in Berlin.…
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"Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play God." - Modern Hippocratic OathDr. Seward calls in the cava…
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"When there is no place safe and no safe place to put my head When you feel the world shake from the words that are said And I'm calling all angels..." - Train, Calling All AngelsArthur - of the curly hair - visits his girlfriend. Dracula: 2004 is a weekly found footage horror audio drama, based on the novel "Dracula" by Bram Stoker. Care to take a…
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"With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries." - Mary Shelley, FrankensteinDr. Seward develops arachnophobia, fights a bat, and deals with a runaway client. Dracula: 2004 is a weekly found footage horror audio drama, based on the novel "Dracula" by Bram Stoker. Care to…
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"MULDER: The end of my world was unrecognisable and upside down. There was one thing that remained the same. You were my friend, and you told me the truth. Even when the world was falling apart, you were my constant. My touchstone. SCULLY: And you are mine." - The X-Files (1993-2002) Lucy is acting oddly. Meanwhile, Mina receives an important phone…
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S1E9 - Police Violence with Anabel - Arrest Documentation Unit
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It has been the most striking feature of current political repression in Germany: police brutalizing protesters with extreme force. Especially in Berlin, police violence against political dissidents has become a regular occurrence. But what is behind this violence? Anabel from the Arrest Documentation Unit (ADU) will be joining R A R live in the st…
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"A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles A cargo ship washes up in the River Esk, an enormous dog makes an appearance, and Mina appears on the local radio. Dracula: 2004 is a weekly found footage horror audio drama, based on the novel …
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"Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner These logs contain information on the last known whereabouts and events of the Demeter, a cargo ship heading to a London port. Dracula: 2004 is a weekly found footage horror audio drama, …
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S1E8 - Honoring the Statue of Peace - with Aiko, Zoë Claire Miller
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With the removal of Ari, a statue commemorating the sexual slavery of over 200.000 women at the hands of the Japanese military during WWII, Berlin once again enacts political censorship through the arts. In 1992, the Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, began weekly Wednesday protests and to commemorate the 1000th …
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"On looking at it I found in certain places little rings marked, and on examining these I noticed that one was near London on the east side, manifestly where his new estate was situated; the other two were Exeter, and Whitby on the Yorkshire coast…" - Bram Stoker, DraculaMina and Lucy have gone on holiday to the seaside town of Whitby. But strange …
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"Sometimes I give myself the creeps Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me It all keeps adding up I think I'm cracking up Am I just paranoid?" - Green Day, Basketcase Dr. Jack Seward logs about his newest client: Patient R. Meanwhile, the psychiatric nursing staff of White Oak House regret not having a union. Dracula: 2004 is a weekly found footage h…
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S1E7 - WORK TAP - Defunding as a Tool of Censorship
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Discussing censorship and the threat thereof in the German cultural scene, as a form of negative psychic and political energy that enters the physical and social body. With Siegmar Zacharias, performance artist and founding member of freelance dance ensemble berlin, and Merlin Gebhard, theater director and musician. Join Radio Against Repression to…
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"I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air." - Bram Stoker, Dracula Lucy and Mina send voicemails, discuss crushes and accidentally fail the Bechdel Test. Dracula: 2004 is a weekly found footage horror audio drama, based on the novel "Dracula" by Bram Stoker. Care to take a bite?…
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"Was he then to allow this monster to roam, bearing ruin upon his breath, amidst all he held dear, and not avert its progress?" - Dr. John Polidori, The Vampyre With no other choice, Jonathan makes a run for it. Dracula: 2004 is a weekly found footage horror audio drama, based on the novel "Dracula" by Bram Stoker. Care to take a bite? ____________…
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"Evil is a point of view. We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angel…
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"Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours." - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla Jonathan meets the other residents of Castle Dracula. Dracula: 2004 is a weekly found footage horror audio drama, based on th…
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S1E6 - Q+A Episode: Collecting Dreams, Largest Demo, "Chat Control", Fake Lines Levant
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Tune in for a Q+A episode with Jara and Alex, live in the studio, where they will discuss everything that's been happening in Germany recently - the defunding of the Collecting Dreams literature festival, whether Germany will cast a deciding EU vote to bring in a mass-surveillance law known as "Chat Control", and of course the largest protest for P…
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"The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it." - Bram Stoker, Dracula Jonathan Harker, solicitor, arrives in Romania, listens to a voicemail from Mina, records his travel log, and meets his employer’s new client: Count Dracula. Dracula: 2004 is a weekly found footage horror audio drama, based on the novel "Dracula" by Bram St…
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Re: Frankenstein - An audio drama adaptation of your favorite gothic sci-fi novel. Arriving in Fall 2026. This show is crowdfunding now! Check out their indiegogo campaign here if you'd like to donate: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/re-frankenstein/coming_soon Re: Frankenstein is an audio adaptation of Frankenstein from the team behind Re: Dr…
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S1E5 - Irwan Ahmett on The Indonesian Hospital in Gaza & 🌋
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Artist Irwan Ahmett is interviewed about the worlds that brutal resource extraction has created and destroyed. From the sacred mountains of Papua to the live-streamed genocide of Palestinians on your device, Irwan’s work with Tita Salina charts the terror of now and the eternal creativity of the human species over deep time. #Branding #Death #TheBo…
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S1E4 - The Third Encampment - Protest Camp Berlin
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Radio Against Repression shares perspectives from within the Occupy Against Occupation (Bezetzung gegen Bezatzung), protest camp currently active opposite the German parliamentary building (Bundestag), in Berlin. Join us live from the studio for a one-to-one discussion of interviews and vivid sonic landscapes, exploring the camps’ wider goals while…
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Coming to a landline near you in October 2025... watch out for bats. Transcript here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17RtSkUhHVblEu-JymMiPc1gu37GvgnLb_Smua0PlrDI/edit?usp=sharing This trailer was written and directed by Francesca Mylod-Ford, and produced by Maddy Searle. It featured sound design by Maddy Searle, with original music by Joash Kar…
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Dracula: 2004 is a brand-new twist on a 127-year-old theme... when a young solicitor named Jonathan Harker is invited to Castle Dracula in the year 2004, our heroes must use the power of friendship, garlic and dial-up internet to prevent the nefarious Count Dracula from gaining a foothold within the unwitting people of London. Care to take a bite? …
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S1E3 - Hate Speech & Insult Law - with Jason Oberman
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On air discussion with Jason Oberman's addressing their three part series Inciting Hatred and Slinging Insults: Exploring the Legal Apparatus of the BRD on The Left Berlin. Jason Oberman (they/them) is an anti-zionist Ashkenazi Jewish American based in Zürich. A musician, composer, songwriter and rogue scholar who formerly lived in Berlin, Jason re…
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A lecture by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, as part of the February 19th event: Conditions of Life Calculated to Destroy, Legal and Forensic Perspectives on the Ongoing Gaza Genocide - at bUm, Berlin. The lecture was supposed to take place in a big lecture hall at Freie universitat, along with Eyal Weizman, director of Forensic Architect…
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S1E1 - Policing Education - Emergency Broadcast
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In episode one: Policing Education, we give a subtextual reading of the parliamentary resolution "Confronting anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment at schools and universities and securing free space for debate".Analysed with guests within and adjacent to contemporary formal education in Germany, sounding the alarm around shrinking spaces for fre…
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