Artistry & Altruism

Proudly PresentsField
Voices

An original audio podcast series giving voice to the extraordinary — and largely unheard — personal journeys of international humanitarian aid workers returning home.

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A place to share stories. To help returned aid workers reintegrate with their families, friends, and work colleagues.

— Founder, Creator & Presenter, Omnipresent Ear Limited

Our Purpose

Why These
Stories Matter

Each year, thousands of humanitarian aid workers return from deployments in some of the world's most challenging environments — conflict zones, disaster-stricken regions, and communities in crisis. They arrive home changed. Often profoundly so.

The transition back to ordinary life — to family, friends, and colleagues who cannot fully comprehend what has been experienced — is one of the least-discussed challenges in the humanitarian sector. It is a space marked by isolation, disconnect, and in many cases, long-term psychological strain.

Artistry & Altruism exists to break that silence. Through deeply personal, crafted audio storytelling, we create a space where returned aid workers can speak, be heard, and — critically — help others recognise themselves in the shared experience of return.

This is not a crisis service. It is something rarer: a respectful, thoughtful, creative act of bearing witness.

Original podcast episodes

To-camera personal musings

Safe creative space for reintegration

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Lives this work can reach

The Presenter & Founder

Guy Rudland — Founder, Creator & Presenter, Artistry & Altruism

A Voice
Born of Experience

Guy Rudland, the founder, creator and artistic director of Omnipresent Ear Limited and presenter of Artistry & Altruism's Field Voices, is not an observer of this world. He is a former international humanitarian aid worker — someone who has lived the missions, navigated the fieldwork, and faced the challenge of coming home.

That lived experience is the foundation upon which this project is built. It is what allows interviewees to speak with genuine candour, and what gives the work its authenticity, its depth, and its moral credibility.

As company director of Omnipresent Ear Limited, Guy brings together the disciplines of audio production, storytelling craft, and an intimate understanding of the humanitarian sector to create something that is at once artistically ambitious and genuinely useful.

Under the banner of Artistry & Altruism, Field Voices is the debut series. This is personal work. Timely, necessary, and historically urgent.

Former International Humanitarian Aid Worker

Founder & Director — Omnipresent Ear Limited

Creator, Presenter & Series Producer

The Podcast Series

Alongside the Field Voices podcast series, the presenter speaks directly to camera — no script, no distance, no mediation. These are personal musings: reflections on past guests and their stories, on his own experiences in the field, and on the world of humanitarian aid as it was and as it is today.

They are short. They are honest. And they are designed to travel — built for social media, shared across platforms, reaching people who have never heard of humanitarian aid reintegration and drawing them towards something that might genuinely matter to them.

This is the public face of Field Voices. The moment a stranger becomes a listener. The entry point that turns casual curiosity into genuine engagement — and sends people to the podcast, to the website, and into a community of shared experience.

The Presenter's Voice

Personal stories from the field — told in the first person, without filter.

The experiences, the doubts, the moments of clarity. A voice that has been there — and is not afraid to say so.

Reflections on Guests

Each episode inspires a response — a thought, a memory, a question it raised.

The musings extend the conversation beyond the recording. They give each guest's story a longer life.

Then & Now

The world of humanitarian aid — what it was, what it has become, and what it owes its people.

Contextual, considered, and never detached. This is a practitioner's view of a world in constant change.

Social Media & Audience Growth

These films are how Field Voices finds its audience — and how that audience finds its way home to the full series.

Platforms

Editorial Principles

How We
Work

Informed Consent & Safety

Every contributor is a fellow professional. Conversations are conducted with full editorial transparency, psychological awareness, and the interviewee's wellbeing as the primary consideration at every stage.

Craft-Led Audio Production

This is not broadcast journalism. It is audio storytelling — paced, layered, and shaped for the ear. Each episode is produced to the highest standard of audio craft, treating the listening experience as a meaningful act in itself.

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A Trusted Interviewer

The presenter's own experience as a returned aid worker is not incidental — it is the condition of access. Contributors speak with someone who has genuinely shared their world. That trust shapes every conversation.

Project Funding

Applying to
Arts Council England

Artistry & Altruism is seeking National Lottery Project Grant funding from Arts Council England to bring Field Voices to completion and to the widest possible audience.

The project sits at the intersection of arts, public health, and social purpose — making it an exceptional candidate for ACE investment. It creates original, high-quality audio content whilst directly addressing an under-served community with a genuine and documented need.

The work is artistic. The impact is real. The audience — returned aid workers, their families, the humanitarian sector, and the wider listening public — is both identifiable and expansive.

Funding will enable the full production of the series — from editorial development and audio craft through to distribution and audience reach.

Why This Project Qualifies

Original artistic work of demonstrable quality and ambition
Clear public benefit and defined audience need
Led by a credible, experienced practitioner with direct sector knowledge
National and international reach through podcast distribution
Addresses the under-representation of humanitarian aid workers in UK arts and media
Sustainable format with long-term archival and educational value
Strong potential for sector partnership and co-promotion

Arts Council England — National Lottery Project Grants — Application in Progress

Wellbeing & Safety

An Important Note

Artistry & Altruism's Field Voices is a creative storytelling space. Sharing your story — or listening to others share theirs — can be valuable and meaningful. However, this is not a substitute for professional support.

The wellbeing and safety of our guests and audience is paramount at every stage of this project. If you are struggling, please reach out to the appropriate support here:

Support is Available

Samaritans — 24/7

116 123

Free to call, any time, from any phone.

Mind

0300 123 3393

Mental health support and information.

Shout — Crisis Text Line

Text 85258

Free, confidential crisis support by text, 24/7.

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Personal stories from the field — told in the first person, without filter.

Each episode inspires a response — a thought, a memory, a question it raised.

The world of humanitarian aid — what it was, what it has become, and what it owes its people.

How WeWork

Informed Consent & Safety

Craft-Led Audio Production

A Trusted Interviewer

Applying toArts Council England

Why This Project Qualifies

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An Important Note

Proudly PresentsField
Voices

Why These
Stories Matter

A Voice
Born of Experience

Field Voices —
Ten Conversations.

Direct.
Personal.
Unfiltered.

How We
Work

Applying to
Arts Council England

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Touch