Conceived by Serpentine in London, the project shares a series of collaborative commissions which explore stories about labor, who cares for whom, and in what way. Over the course of three years, artists Sonia Boyce, Helen Cammock, Rory Pilgrim, and Ilona Sagar collaborated with social workers, carers, organizers, and communities across the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (LBBD). Four films and bodies of research emerged from these long-term artistic processes. Radio Ballads takes its name from a revolutionary series of radio programs, broadcast on the BBC from 1957–1964: a time of rapid change across the UK. These combined song, music, and sound effects with the stories of communities. Each original Ballad focused on the lived experiences and resistance of workers and groups whose voices were rarely or never heard in the media. Radio Ballads asks how we can understand, listen, learn, and heal through collective storytelling. In a time of multiple crises, the project explores how voices—individual and collective—can illuminate structures of care and allow us to reflect on conditions of life and the effects of labor in our communities.