Heather Davies

A photo to prove that you don’t need a fancy studio to make great radio. This is engineer Ali, sat in my dining room, using ProTools on his laptop, plugged into my non-specialist-audio speakers.

The last 10 minutes of the series will be a jet-propelled journey back through the 50 years covered by the series – from “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” right back to “I declare the Festival of Britain open”.

I’d laid out the clips I wanted to use in a 5 track Adobe Audition session (83 in total), and then mixed down all the clips in each track so that we didn’t have to re-set all those individual tracks in Ali’s ProTools session. He opened those 5 tracks and sliced them back up before working his magic. Watching him use ProTools is like watching a musician – his hands move so quickly!