I work on a lot of spoken word projects, providing location recording, tape sync, editing, mixing, mastering and sound design for clients including NPR, PRX, BBC, NHS, Acast and National Galleries. I also teach a 1-day Audio for Journalists training course for the NUJ, Equity, EIS and private clients.
Location sound recording example
Tape sync recording example: Rode NTG2, pop shield, Rode PG2-R, Zoom H6.
Podcasts, Radio and Film
A Life More Wild (2025) Recording poet, comedian, actor and screenwriter Tim Key walking up Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh for 18Sixty.
PRX: Lethal Dissent (2024) A 9-part series from PRX, The World, and On Spec about the price and peril that Iranian dissidents face for speaking out against their government, and the secret operatives who seek to silence them. Guest from 1m09s.
Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare Unlimited (2023) What Happened to the Princes in the Tower, with Philippa Langley. Guest from 2m10s.
A Portrait of Sir Geoff Palmer. Location recording and sound mix. A film by Graham Fagen.
BBC Radio 4: The Digital Human Guest from 59s.
BBC Radio 4: Positive Thinking Guest from 14m19s.
The Times: Wine Times Location recording of 3-way podcast and wine tasting with guest Ian Rankin.
BBC Radio 4: File on 4 – Blind Mind’s Eye Long-running, award-winning current affairs programme. Host from 1m17s
Dell: Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson Series 4, Episode 11, guest from 3m5s.
A Life More Wild – Gemma Cairney Outdoor recording (on a very windy day…) of two guests for Canopy and Stars podcast.
Audio production
NHS: Sunshine Recovery Café. A radio-style piece profiling a pop-up cafe in Paisley run for – and run by – recovering addicts. Location recording, interviewing, edit, mix.
All Back to Bowie’s A 30-episode podcast documenting a live daily Edinburgh Fringe show themed around the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum. Guests included actor Brian Cox and Scotland’s (future) First Minister Nicola Sturgeon (below). Location recording, edit, mix, publishing.
Podcast mixing and editing
In the Eyes of the Law: Citadel Chambers – Podcast by a progressive set of barristers. In this episode, Rachel Brand KC is interviewed about the importance of diversity within the criminal justice system as a whole.
An Lanntair: Dark Skies – Campfire Conversations. An 8-part podcast series of conversations recorded with people from the worlds of astronomy, psychology and the arts.