I work on a lot of spoken word projects, providing location recording, tape sync, editing, mixing, mastering and sound design for clients including National Galleries, NPR, PRX, BBC, NHS and Acast. I also teach a 1-day Audio for Journalists training course for the NUJ, Equity, EIS and private clients.
Location sound recording
Tape sync recording example: Rode NTG2, pop shield, Rode PG2-R, Zoom H6.
Selected broadcast credits
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.
· BBC Radio 4 – The Digital Human (2023) Guest from 59s-2m33s and throughout.
· BBC Radio 4: Positive Thinking (2022) Whistledown Productions for BBC Radio 4. Guest from 14m19s and
15m43s
· The Times: Wine Times (2021) A wine-themed podcast by The Times. Location recording of 3-way discussion with crime writer Ian Rankin.
· BBC Radio 4: File on 4 – Blind Mind’s Eye (2020) Long-running and award-winning BBC Radio 4 current affairs programme. (Recording of host from 1min 17sec + 2min 52sec)
· Dell: Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson (2020) A Dell podcast by Pacific Content on digital disruption. (Recording of guest from 3m 5sec – Series 4, Episode 11)
· A Life More Wild – Gemma Cairney and Tom Dixon (2021) Outdoor recording (on a very windy day…) of two guests for this podcast for Canopy and Stars/18Sixty.
Podcast recording, editing and mixing
· 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 and mix.
· All Back to Bowie’s A 30-episode podcast series 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). Live recording, edit and mix.
Podcast mixing and editing
In the Eyes of the Law: Citadel Chambers – Podcast by a progressive set of barristers. In the episode below, Rachel Brand KC is interviewed about the importance of diversity within the criminal justice system as a whole.
· An Lanntair: Dark Skies – Campfire Conversations. 2020. A podcast series from An Lanntair featuring conversations recorded via Zoom with people from the worlds of astronomy, psychology and the arts.