Category: Radio
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Documentary: Three Continents, Three Generations (BBC Radio 4)
This is on this week! It was great fun to produce, working with Neil Kanwal and indie Blok Media. It’s a fantastic story following the migration of people from India to Kenya to the UK – and has been featured by the Guardian, the Telegraph and the Spectator! http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0435c83
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How To Win A (Sony) Radio Academy Award
This has been my second year as a judge of the-formerly-known-as-the-Sony Radio Academy Awards. It’s a massive honour to be involved with the judging, if a bit terrifying to know that your opinion could genuinely change a career for the better. I can tell you that the judges take their…
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Jon & Miranda on BBC Radio 2 (23rd Dec 2013)
Wot I did produce and do the social media for… Happy Christmas Eve-Eve from @jonholmes1 & @mermhart – on your wireless for the next 3 hours on BBC Radio 2 pic.twitter.com/NpJEz3iZXN — BBC Radio 2 (@BBCRadio2) December 23, 2013 The results are in! Here's @jonholmes1 & @mermhart's attempts at wrapping…
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#SWfest Highlights
Short highlights from the Sound Women Inspiration Festival, as chosen and edited by moi:
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Me, Me, Me: Creating A Compelling Personal Brand
I’m producing the next Radio Academy event… Monday 10th June 2013 | 6pm for 6.30 Gibson Guitar Studio, 29-35 Rathbone Street, London, W1T 1NJ Apple. Innocent. Honda. Given a blank sheet of paper you could conjure up at least 3 key words associated with each company. But how easily could…
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CoP Podcast: Using Archive
A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to appear on the BBC’s College of Production podcast. You can listen to the audio here: BBC College of Production Podcast ‘Archive’: a time-consuming nightmare to source, or a quick fix for hurried producers? Denise Roach talks to radio producer Heather Davies,…
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BBC College of Production Article: I made… Sing in Heavenly Peace
Reposted from the BBC College of Production Heather Davies is a radio producer for independent production company Unusual Productions. She produced the BBC Radio 2 documentary Sing in Heavenly Peace: The True Story of Silent Night, presented by Sir Cliff Richard, which was broadcast on Christmas Day 2012. This is what I…
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Happy Birthday Tony Blackburn!
This video was made specially for the Happy Birthday event I produced for the Radio Academy.
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#happybirthday6music
Can’t believe it’s 10 years since I voted via dial-up internet for Burn Baby Burn by Ash to be the first song played on 6 Music!
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Last Day Making Sounds of the 20th Century
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…
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The Unthanks – King of Rome (at the Radio 2 Folk Awards)
Highlight of last night’s Folk Awards for me. You can see the back of my head in the wide shots here – front right!
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Annie Nightingale at the first @SoundWomen event
The legendary DJ talks about her career, and tells some great stories: And a great behind the scenes podcast from Folded Wing…
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Radio 2011: Summing Up The Year in Radio
Reposted from the BBC 5 live blog This Christmas Day (Sunday 25th December) at 7pm, 5 live will be broadcasting a two-hour programme about the year in radio. To some of you this will seem like an obvious thing to do, but some of you may be wondering why we’re…
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