Disquiet Listening – Tunis Comes To Radio Lear
On the evenings of 19th and 20th June, Radio Lear joins an international network of independent radio stations to broadcast Disquiet Listening: Tunis, a live radio laboratory emerging from the creative communities of Mouhit Space and Dar Meso Art Residency in Tunisia.
Broadcasting between 7pm and 10pm (UTC+1), this site-specific radio event asks a deceptively simple question: what happens when the intimate experience of an event, unfolding in one place, is carried across distance and shared with listeners elsewhere?
For Radio Lear, this question sits close to the heart of what radio can be. Radio is often understood as a medium of transmission, carrying sounds from one location to another. Yet it is also a medium of presence. Through listening, we enter spaces we have never visited, encounter people we may never meet, and participate in moments that exist beyond our immediate surroundings.
Disquiet Listening: Tunis brings together live concerts, radio art, interviews, field recordings, submitted works from international radio collaborators, and the ordinary sounds of everyday life. At its centre are performances by musicians brought together in spontaneous collaborations, creating ad-hoc duos without predetermined compositions or setlists. Conversations with artists, guests and audiences unfold alongside these performances, creating an open environment for experimentation and shared discovery.
Featured artists include Bochra Triki, ctrl_z_e_d, Habiiibiji, Leila Mnekbi, Mazen Alsafadi, Youssef Ettourjoumene and Cate Hops, with further contributors to be announced. The event is curated by Eugenia Seriakov and hosted by Mouhit Space and Dar Meso.
The broadcast will be shared simultaneously through a global network of independent and community-focused radio stations, linking audiences across Europe, North Africa, North America and beyond. Radio Lear is pleased to be part of this constellation of listening platforms, alongside stations including Radio Alhara in Bethlehem, Colaboradio in Berlin, Radio Panik in Brussels, Soundart Radio in Totnes, Wave Farm/XGXC in New York State, and others.
For listeners interested in sound art, experimental music, field recording, radio as an artistic medium, and the emerging cultures that gather around independent broadcasting, Disquiet Listening: Tunis offers a rare opportunity. It is not simply a programme to listen to, but a shared act of attention. Through radio, a room in Tunis becomes connected to kitchens, workshops, studios, gardens and listening spaces across the world.
This is the kind of encounter that Radio Lear was created to support: exploratory, reflective, open-ended, and attentive to the creative possibilities that emerge when people listen carefully to one another.
Disquiet Listening: Tunis will be broadcast on Radio Lear on Friday 19th June and Saturday 20th June 2026, from 7pm until 10pm.
Listen online at radiolear.uk or via DAB Digital Radio across Leicester, Loughborough and Rugby.
