Bern Leckie Email & Phone Number

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Church went online. In a reminder that it's all about the people, not the building, COVID-19 forced us to rethink how we connect, and I've been producing a weekly live gathering to help people find inspiration and support, easy to view and rewarding to participate in. It's stretched my video making, story telling and music production skills, but the best bit has been uncovering talents in lots of other people too.

Looking for a wide range of music for 0-13 year olds, from the latest child-friendly pop hits to singalongs, nursery rhymes and lullabyes for the younger children. We refresh our playlist weekly and also programme around big occasions like summer holidays, Christmas and anything else children get excited about! Fun Kids broadcasts nationally on DAB digital radio and online. In July 2019 we launched a sister station Fun Kids Junior on DAB in London and the South East, also online everywhere.

I can assist in the creation and spreading of stories, ideas, presentations or training materials. In the last year I have been engaged to produce illustrations, infographics, podcasts, web sites, original training material and summaries of other people's teaching. I am looking to develop new material including online training courses.

Developed Chill through networking artists, producers and listeners and curating a range of classic and contemporary chillout music with new tunes and mixes added weekly. Presented an acoustic music show, "Simple City" (www.simplecity.org) and a series of podcasts on personal development called "Living a Chilled Life."Also programmed a range of music channels from classical and ambient music to pop.

Finding hits and putting playlists, music logs together for a very cool rhythmic / contemporary hits station with a great reputation for growing talent.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Created a brand new radio format with a fresh take on feelgood tunes from every decade, on air as "100% Whatever" in South Wales and South West England. Advising on what's new and essential to play on sister station "100% Hits".

Finding music, programming and scheduling for a truly creative station aimed at people who have grown up loving the range, breadth and boldness of Britain's public service radio but feel they aren't well served by it any more. They like their favourite hits, but want more. They enjoy discovering new music, but don't consider themselves specialists or want to be forced into too much from samey-sounding genre stations. And they're bored of "variety"​ mixes which don't deliver anything fresh and unexpected. So we are always exploring, sharing and mixing up new finds with big current hits and a refreshing range of anthems and re-discoveries from the past.

Put together a service of current hits with a few classics relevant for a 15-35 audience, broadcast on Freeview in Greater Manchester with some imaginative imaging and live presenters.

Developing new website and online resources for the Diocese to serve RE teachers, school worship co-ordinators and church youth and children's workers.

Discovering and highlighting the best chilled music from around the world on SBS, the world's most multilingual broadcaster. SBS Chill is a trial service which runs in the major metropolitan areas of Australia on DAB+ digital radio. I also program special Chill mixes which feature on SBS Radio 1.

Grow the church community and its connections with the city through networking, story telling, ministry and the design of media which reflect and inspire creative engagement with the gospel.

Joined to launch DAB digital radio and set up national stations Core, Planet Rock and The Mix. Launched The Storm in 2001 and Chill in 2004. Playlisted music for The Mix Network / The One Network of FM stations from 2000, and doubled reach & hours for national digital station Capital Life while managing its music in 2007-8.Coached new and upcoming presenters and producers through Core, The Storm and Chill who are now heard across the UK on stations such as Absolute Radio, Kiss, Galaxy, Capital, Classic FM and Radio 2.GCap Media merged with Global Radio in autumn 2008.

Ran production and created imaging and sound design for the national Student Radio Network and a number of retail radio stations. Trained students in production and presentation.