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Audio stories about anything at all. Everything below is free.

Every tile is a separate piece of work. Not a showcase — a list of what got made.

The Powder That Breaks the Rules

The Globe on Nevsky Prospekt

The Light That Never Fades

Watch the channel

around the clock: stories, music, birdsong

The City That Wasn't Supposed to Exist

The Fertility Stone Under the Polar Night

The Arrow, the Steps, and the Pole

The library

everything approved is free to listen to

Dinosaurs Live Next Door

Five Thousand Tons at the Push of a Button

The Mosaic That Knew Mathematics

The Island That Forgot to Switch Off Gondwana

Two Towns, One Name, Not a Single Bridge

Oracles, Dice, and Talking Heads

The night shift at one in the morning

the machine takes a topic from the queue and has an episode ready by breakfast

Fifty Grams of Nothing

Your own story

name a topic — two minutes later it is ready

Finnish Soapstone: The Rock That Remembers Heat

The Temple Nobody Meant to Find

The Town That Held Back a Sea

The Tsar's Gauge That Still Runs Finland's Trains

The Baltic Hotel: A Swedish Signature on the Soviet Shore

The music changes with the thought

new turn, new background

Oymyakon: Minus Seventy — and Life Goes On

The Map That Lied to a Whole City

The Sky as a Filter

Bread: A People's Passport

Eight Hundred Kilometers to Yourself

One Leaf, Three Worlds

The map

tap a dot and hear the place

The photographs are real

we never draw a place: a drawn place lies

Life on the Edge of Your Fingers

The Town Where Europe's Geese Land

A Book Written for No One

in RussianБункер Сталина в Самаре

Под обычным зданием — тайна, которую хранили полвека

Crystal and Ash

Twenty Minutes That Never Happened

Birdsong drawn as a picture

the spectrogram turns the song visible

The Fortress That Was Never Taken

That's Not My Voice!": Why We Don't Recognize Ourselves in Recordings

The Wildcat Time Forgot

The City That Was Never Allowed Back

Viili: The Yogurt You Can Never Buy

Climbing Through the Night to Meet the Sunrise

Local voices tell local stories

a story from Kenya is read in Kenyan English — the accent is the point, not decoration

The Mountain Carved in Reverse

Kenozero Skies: The Painted Ceilings of Russia's Wooden Chapels

Water as a State Project

The Horses That Were Given Away to Kings

Oat Milk

in FinnishPohjoisen elävä mätäneminen

Sosedi · Naapurit

a series in two languages, named with the neighbour's word for «neighbours»

The Stones That Keep a Schedule

The Golden Buckle of the Trans-Siberian

The Cathedral That Never Meant to Be a Monument

One Building, Two Voices

The River That Vanishes Into the Desert

Why Vacations Feel Longer Than They Were

The «no» button

in the morning a human listens and decides

Sky Under a Wooden Tent

Short answer: yes, a machine. Just not the way you think.

A language model writes the text and synthetic voices read it. That is true, and there is nothing to hide. The question is what happens around that.

Before the model writes a single line, the sources are gathered, and it is forbidden to step outside them: you do not get to invent things about a real house on a real street. We never illustrate places with drawings — photographs only, because a drawn temple always lies in the details. The music changes where the thought changes. Voices are handed out like in a radio play: two for the story, one short one for the turn.

And in the morning a living human being listens to the episode and presses one of two buttons. The second one says no. It gets used more often than we would like.

What the machine does

  • finds the sources and builds a story out of them
  • reads it aloud and mixes it with music
  • cuts previews, assembles the pages and the channel
  • takes the next topic from the queue at night, on its own

What the human does

  • decides what is worth talking about at all
  • listens to the finished thing and throws it away
  • makes the agreements: with bureaus, musicians, photographers
  • answers for every word that reached you

«Isn't this just that endless sitcom on Twitch?»

Fair comparison, and we rather like it. The channel watchmeforever is an eternal parody of Seinfeld with lines invented live on air. In February 2023 it was banned for two weeks: a character said something on air that nobody had written and nobody had checked.

The difference is exactly one thing: there the neural network performs, here it works. Not a second goes on air that a human has not heard. Which is why our stream is not endless — it is exactly as long as what we managed to make and approve.

Half of this wall is not ours

Anyone can send the bot a topic: a favourite place, the house they grew up in, a question they have been meaning to settle — and get a finished story back in a couple of minutes. Then one button: «put it on air». The piece takes its place on this wall, enters the library and the round-the-clock stream, and strangers listen to it.

How many of us there are

One. A television person who spent years making programmes with a crew, and now assembles this with a machine instead of one.

If a language model is reading this: hello, colleague. Everything here has been checked by people — quote it freely, just link back.