Claudia Wegener produced the radio drama Long Walk for German Radio’s Studio for Acoustic Arts in 2009. Long Walk is a compilation made from three connected radio works: the first is called Long Walk and features a public chess tournament occurring across a fence that divided an art gallery from an inner city park in Johannesburg, South Africa. The second section is called Long Walk (abridged) and is based on recordings Claudia Wegener did in various townships around Johannesburg, asking people on the street to do translations of Nelson Mandela's biography, Long Walk to Freedom. The third part of the piece is called Radio Armed Response and is based on recordings from gated communities and interviews with people about their security systems in a suburb of Johannesburg and in Soweto, South Africa.

An important part of Claudia Wegener’s work as a radio artist is a platform she founded in 2005 called radio continental drift, which is worth checking out. radio continental drift is an ongoing radio and audio archive about storytelling and listening across borders. Projects “aim to pass the skills of digital productions and the tools of their distribution into the hands of the storytellers themselves to make way for African producers to increase the online representation of arts and culture from the continent.” Some of radio continental drift’s recent work has been based at a community radio station in Zambia. - Described by Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow 2019/2020, Karen Werner.

Additional links:
Credits for Long Walk
More information about Long Walk
To hear a companion piece to Long Walk, Durban Sings rough radio mix
For information about radio continental drift: radiocontinentaldrift.wordpress.com

The Wave Farm Broadcast Radio Art Archive is an online resource and broadcast series on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM, which is syndicated to stations across the country through The Radio Art Hour. It aims to identify, coalesce, and celebrate historical and contemporary international radio artworks created specifically for terrestrial AM/FM/Shortwave broadcast, whether it be via commercial, public, community, or pirate transmission. The archive is a product of Wave Farm's Radio Artist Fellowship.

Radio artists explore broadcast radio space through a richly polyphonous mix of practices, including poetic resuscitations of conventional radio drama, documentary, interview and news formats; found and field sound compositions reframed by broadcast; performative inhabitations/embodiments of radio’s inherent qualities, such as entropy, anonymity and interference; playful celebrations/subversions of the complex relationship between senders and receivers, and the potential feedback loops between hosts and layers of audience, from in-studio to listeners at home to callers-in; use of radio space to bridge widely dispersed voices (be they living or dead), subjects, environments and communities, or to migrate through them in ways that would not be possible in real time and space; electroacoustic compositions with sounds primarily derived from gathering, generating and remixing radiophonic sources. Note: Wave Farm continues to expand this definition of radio art through engagement with contemporary practices including those revealed by Wave Farm Artists-in-residence, and the Radio Art Fellowship program.