About Broadwave

 
Broadwave Co-Founders (L-R) Areej Nur, Izzy Roberts-Orr, Bethany Atkinson-Quinton. Photos by Leah Jing

Broadwave Co-Founders (L-R) Areej Nur, Izzy Roberts-Orr, Bethany Atkinson-Quinton. Photos by Leah Jing

 

Broadwave is a curated network of Australian podcasts telling community-driven stories. Founded by Areej Nur, Beth Atkinson-Quinton and Izzy Roberts-Orr in 2018 and launched at Audiocraft Festival, Broadwave develops, nurtures and promotes emerging Australian podcasts and producers to provide a genuine, intelligent and considered alternative space for quality independent audio content.

We equip producers and communities with the skills and resources to make their best work, reach new audiences and sustainably fund their practice. Partnering with existing independent podcasts, commissioning new podcasts and one-off creative audio pieces, Broadwave works at the intersections of communities as a tool for self-determination and story sharing.


Our Team

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Areej Nur | Co-Director

Areej is a radio producer, presenter and educator. Areej hosts weekly radio show ALL CAPS on Triple R and is the co-founder of African artist collective, Still Nomads. Areej has produced radio and podcasts for numerous places. Areej’s work seeks to support women of colour, particularly black women, to be at the forefront of conversations about media, arts, race and feminism in Australia.

Broadwave projects include: TBA 2024.

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Beth Atkinson-Quinton | Co-Director

Beth is a broadcaster, audio producer and artist. Beth hosts weekly radio show The Glasshouse on Triple R and has produced for the ABC, The Guardian, SBS, Arts Centre Melbourne and more. Beth has hosted 7am (Schwartz Media), produced Better Off Dead (The Wheeler Centre) and edited the Australian Audio Guide (Audiocraft/The Wheeler Centre).

Broadwave projects include: Tender, A Fluorescent Feeling, Tramlines and All Ears.

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Izzy Roberts-Orr | Co-Director

Izzy is a poet, broadcaster and audio producer. Izzy is the former Artistic Director and Co-CEO of the Emerging Writers’ Festival where they created various audio projects including podcasts and site-specific sound works. Izzy has produced audio for Triple R, FBi, ReReaders and more. Izzy is a 2020-2021 recipient of the Australia Council Marten Bequest Scholarship for Poetry.

Broadwave projects include: Dramageddon and Shifting Subjects.

Producers

Lisa Divissi | Producer, Shifting Subjects

Lisa Divissi has worked across radio, podcasts, television and digital at the ABC. Her work can be found on Days Like These, Earshot, Blueprint for Living, RN Drive and ABC 7.30.

Photo by Leah Jing McIntosh.

Jon Tjhia | Sound Designer and Engineer, Tender and Shifting Subjects

Jon is a radio maker, musician, artist and writer. His radio and sound works have surfaced at Manchester Literature Festival, the Barbican, City Gallery Wellington, Sydney Opera House and Arts Centre Melbourne, and on podcasts including Short Cuts, Constellations and The Truth. He’s the co-founder of the Australian Audio Guide and Paper Radio, a producer of The Messenger and a member of the Manus Recording Project Collective.

Photo by Leah Jing McIntosh

 

Madison Griffiths | Producer, Tender

Madison is an author, artist and producer. Her debut book Tissue (Ultimo Press) is a boldly poetic meditation on abortion and what it has the power to represent. She is the co-producer of Tender, a podcast that tracks the journey of individuals as they decide to leave an abusive relationship. In 2022, she was awarded the Walkley Foundation Our Watch Award for Excellence in Reporting on Violence Against Women, alongside co-producer, Beth Atkinson-Quinton. Her work largely centres around the lived experiences of women, especially those whose realities are shrouded in stigma, opposition and rebellion.

Roia Atmar | Lead Storyteller, Tender

Roia is a mother, victim-survivor and domestic violence awareness advocate. She is the lead storyteller of the second season of the podcast Tender.

 

Shakira Hussein | Sensitivity Editor, Tender

Shakira is a writer and researcher based at the University of Melbourne and the author of From Victims to Suspects: Muslim women since 9/11.

Danae Gibson | Assistant Producer, Tender

Danae Gibson is a broadcaster, trainer and producer with RTRFM in Perth. Danae has worked with SYN Media, JOY Radio and more.

 
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Georgia Mill | Presenter and Producer, A Fluorescent Feeling

Georgia is a writer and artist based in Melbourne. Her writing has been published by The Lifted Brow, Scum Mag, Melbourne City of Literature and Witness Performance. In 2018, she was long-listed for The Lifted Brow Prize for Experimental Non-fiction and short-listed for the Scribe Non-Fiction Prize. She is currently working on a project about chronic pain, sexuality and the body. georgia-mill.com

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Michelle Macklem | Sound Designer and Engineer, A Fluorescent Feeling

Michelle Macklem is an audio producer and artist. Using audio as an interlocutor, her work is concerned with the politics of land, voice and atmosphere. She’s produced audio work for the BBC, CBC, ABC RN and NPR. She currently works as a producer on 7AM and as a sound designer for a forthcoming Transmitter Media project. She’s the co-founder and creative director of the sound art project and community Constellations.

 
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Hayley McQuire | Producer

Hayley is a proud Darumbal and South Sea Islander. She is a passionate advocate for Indigenous social justice and ending education inequality. She is the Co-Founder of the National Indigenous Youth Education Coalition, Head of Education for the Foundation for Young Australians and an Asia Pacific Obama Leader. Her writing on education and social justice have been published in The Guardian, New Matilda and Croakey.

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Annaliese Redlich | Producer, All Ears

Annaliese is a broadcaster, audio producer, DJ and musician, with a background in design and communications. She hosts a weekly music radio show, Neon Sunset on Triple R and has produced audio for RISING Festival. All Ears was nominated for the 2020 Australian Podcast Awards and The Webby Awards.

 
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Jean Tong | Producer, Dramageddon

Jean is a writer, dramaturg and director. Jean is a 2020 Philip Parson’s Fellow, and their previous work includes: Hungry Ghosts (Melbourne Theatre Company); Kill All Adults(VCA); and musical ROMEO IS NOT THE ONLY FRUIT (Malthouse Theatre, MICF; Brisbane Festival) which was a Best Writing and Best Ensemble nominee (Green Room Awards 2019).

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Lou Wall | Presenter, Dramageddon

Lou is an award winning comedian, writer and composer. Lou has received Melbourne Fringe’s Best Performance Ensemble Award 2019 for Oh No! Satan Stole My Pineal Gland! and the Best Emerging Artist Award 2018 for Lou Wall’s Drag Race (Griffin Theatre 2019). Most recently, Lou was the musical director for An Evening with Zoe Coombs Marr at Adelaide Cabaret Festival and featured in ABC’s Reef Break alongside Poppy Montgomery and Vince Colosimo.


Press

Creative profile: Tender podcast, Creative Victoria (2023)
Tender podcast wins 2022 Our Watch Award administered by The Walkley Foundation, Our Watch (2022)
Tender wins Gold for Social Justice Podcast at 2022 NY Festivals Radio Awards, New York Festivals (2022)
Tender: Roia Atmar's story of abuse, survival and advocacy, The Guardian (2021)
What happens after you leave an abusive relationship?, ABC Melbourne (2021)
I’m somebody, not just my trauma, Broad Agenda (2021)
Music Podcasts (Finalist), The Webby Awards (2021)
Podcasts to watch out for in 2021, Arts Hub (2021)
The Bullseye Award (Bronze), Australian Podcast Awards (2020)
Broadwave Podcasts, Spiel The Business (2020)
A podcast exploring the power of music, Frankie Magazine (2020)
A word in your ear: Broadwave Podcasts, Talk Talk (2019)
Broadwave, The Big Issue (2018)
Australian podcast network Broadwave launched, Books + Publishing (2018)