Philadelphia’s Forgotten Bomb – BBC Radio 4 – Sound design and mix

I worked with the brilliant and lovely producer Nadia Mehdi on her excellent Archive on 4, ‘Philadelphia’s Forgotten Bomb’. I added some sound design to what Nadia had already done, and then mixed the programme for her.

On May 13th 1985, Philadelphia police dropped a bomb from a helicopter on a terraced house on Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia. The target was MOVE, a radical, back-to-nature group who had been locked in a years-long conflict with the police, city authorities and their neighbours. The fire that followed destroyed 61 homes, left 250 homeless, and killed 11 people, five of whom were children. Yet these dramatic events have been largely forgotten…

Listen back to the programme here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002c2bp

Nadia made this programme for independent production company Telltale Industries.