I am currently working as a senior podcast producer at Bauer Media and recently launched The Overshare with Gemma Atkinson and Emily Blackwell’s Mother Half. After years, on and off at the BBC, it’s refreshing to work on more commercially focussed projects that reach a different and broader audience. We are always looking for new podcasts to commission and develop so do get in touch with any ideas.
Prior to this role I worked as a freelance reporter and producer working regularly with independents and at BBC Radio Four.
Twenty years in the business has led me to interviewing many well known names like Mick Jagger, Harvey Keital, and Susan Sarandon. But actually it’s stories from extraordinary people leading seemingly ordinary lives who really engage me.
On a recent project for Woman’s Hour I followed in the footsteps of Sylvia Pankhurst looking at how working women’s lives have changed in the last 100 years.
This is what my commissioning editor said about the work:
“It was engaging, illuminating and fun. I know this whole series was incredibly difficult to set up and required tenacity, passion and real production skill. I am so grateful for all your hard work and brilliance as a producer. It really paid off. “
Prior to my work at Woman’s Hour I was a staff member in BBC News specialising in music, entertainment and the arts. Most of my work was at Radio One but I also worked at Radio Two, Five Live and Radio Four including live reporting for The Today programme. My love of music and how it can be used in programmes, is one of the great joys of the job.
Freelance work has also led me to shift work in news-rooms and I am used to working fast in pressurised environments. Highlights include covering the 2010 election on the World at One and PM.
From making the first phone-calls, to the final edit, I love the creative process of making programmes and I am excited by how the business of audio is changing.