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2025 Publication: Innovative Podcast Research Explores Creative Academic Impact

Arts and Health, Projects / elspethpenny

Team publishes groundbreaking study on using audio-drama for public health engagement We are pleased to announce the publication of our latest research paper, “Tobias and Syd: A research-based podcast audio-drama about tobacco,” in the Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media (Volume 23, Issue 1, April 2025). This innovative paper reports on a […]

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Tobias and Syd: Breath, Connection and Smoking vitally entwined

Arts and Health, Projects / elspethpenny

By Elisha Westmore Tobias and Syd is a time travel play involving seduction, tobacco, shape-shifting and breath made by 2BU Productions. For more info, including links to the play and how we used Professor Andrew Russell’s research, as well as original letters to the breath, see https://2buproductions.org/tobias-and-syd/ Elisha is 2BU Productions’ Young Advocate for the

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Interview with Shaparak Khorsandi

Arts and Health, People, Projects / elspethpenny

Shaparak tells us about her experience acting the part of “Brain” Shaparak Khorsandi played the character ‘Brain’ in our audio drama Silva Linings Care Plan Silva Lining’s Care Plan: listen, and she was nominated for Best Supporting Performance New Jersey Web Fest 2022. For Khorsandi – an internationally recognised stand-up comedian – the world of

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Tobias and Syd: an alluring time travel romance

Arts and Health, Projects / elspethpenny

Prepare to be hooked… it can be addictive: a play about smoking and vaping. Tapping into desire itself, this romance of smoke and time travel is a 4 part audio-production, which explores the alluring and devastating effects of global tobacco usage through the lens of a love affair. Winner, Best Audio Fiction Standalone, Sydney Webfest

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Diary of a visit to Denmark to present our play Out Like Fudge at a medical conference

Arts and Health, Projects / elspethpenny

Diary of a visit to Denmark to present 2BU Production’s play Out Like Fudge at a medical conference. An out of the ordinary week in a life during November 2021 Wednesday This morning I will meet a Danish nurse who is to be my escort. We find each other under the main clock at København

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How do you write about Dementia and Carers?

Arts and Health, Projects / elspethpenny

A podcast play about carers and dementia, Silva Lining’s Care Plan, from the perspective of a clinical researcher and neuropsychologist by writer Elspeth Penny It’s just a better way of treating a human being. Dons Coleston-Shields What happens when a neuropsychologist from Nottingham’s The Institute of Mental Health reads a draft podcast play about carers

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2025 Publication: Innovative Podcast Research Explores Creative Academic Impact

Tobias and Syd: Breath, Connection and Smoking vitally entwined

Interview with Shaparak Khorsandi

Tobias and Syd: an alluring time travel romance

Diary of a visit to Denmark to present our play Out Like Fudge at a medical conference

How do you write about Dementia and Carers?

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