Think of an investigation that stuck with you in recent years.

Do you remember how it made you feel? What about how you came across it? Was it a front page of a paper, a TV

documentary, a feature film, or did you hear about it on social media? There are more ways

than ever for us to consume the news. But on today's program, we explore a group of journalists

right at the vanguard of a new medium, telling investigative

stories through music.

My name is Leia Borromeo and I'm a journalist and one of the divisors of Climate Symphony.

The story of Leia's journey into making music from investigations started with another journalist,

the late Gavin McFadion, who is a supporter of all things troublemaking, and is a journalist and filmmaker

of, you know, of ill repute, which I quite like in the good sense of ill repute.

Gavin was head of the Centre for Investigative Journalism, right up until his death earlier this year.

A couple of years ago, he was holding a hack day, a session where journalists could come together and share ideas

to try and crack a particular problem.

Where they're inviting journalists to reframe climate change and to reframe how we saw the story

of climate change.

And whilst there, I was sort of sitting there going, okay, people are coming up with apps

and people are thinking about, you know, various ways of storytelling, but everyone's really relying

on words and on pictures.

So it was in a conversation with another chap at the, who's still at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a guy called Jack Searle,

when we started talking about music.

And then it kind of hit us in that sense that, why don't we see if we can use sound as a reporting tool?

It was a bold concept, especially when it comes to something as data-driven and complex

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