Hils Barker Email & Phone Number

Glasgow

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Working in schools across Scotland for not-for-profit organisation IDL, to establish low-cost and accessible dyslexia and dyscalculia learning tools for young people and adults.

Head Office: St Neots, Workshop Delivery: Uk-Wide

Facilitating workshops on media, bias and propaganda, stereotyping and diversity, including disability, religion, age, LGBTQ+ and race. Working together with the core team to improve and update workshops, taking into account feedback from teachers and young people. Helping to establish the EqualiTeach brand.

Writing and developing comedy scripts for BBC Bitesize on computing for children aged 7 - 11 (KS2). I have worked with Catalyst Pictures on various animation projects since 2008, and always enjoy the process of creating educational, informative and funny content for young people.

Working with children's entertainers Dick and Dom and the team at George P Johnson on content for the Get Reading campaign. Producing script for the Get Reading literacy festival taking place in Trafalgar Square all day on 13th July.

London, United Kingdom

Commissions for BT, O2, Telefonica, MBNA and Royal Bank of Scotland, from facilitating writing workshops to ‘tone of voice’ work for corporate literature, videos and marketing campaigns. Notable work includes the scripts for BT’s London 2012 promotional videos and O2’s Android marketing campaign. Excellent client feedback noted clear, accessible and highly engaging writing, leading to improved customer uptake and satisfaction.

London, United Kingdom

"What You Didn't Know About The West" - Writer for six-part documentary series. Tone of voice and accessibility for narration across all episodes, on subjects of politics, the media, food, education, healthcare and cultural life in Britain, Europe, America and Australia. Writing and editing the voice-over script, giving direction, clarity and humour, and ensuring consistency with accompanying book for the series. Blakeway Productions for CCTV (Chinese National Television) 2012

Writing and editing script for short film 'The Autograph' starring Alison Steadman, part of the Sky Little Cracker series. Working with Alison to produce a script that represented an entertaining, funny and poignant memoir of her early life as a Beatles fan, and her accidental meeting with John Lennon and Paul McCartney... in the Post Office round the corner from The Cavern Club.

Worked UK-wide, in Europe and the US as a stand-up comedian. 2008 Edinburgh show, Exhibitionist, resulted in commission of sitcom pilot, Superconnected. In 2009, played Hammersmith Apollo for first time as part of Friends of the Earth gig.

Writer and developer of multiple comedy scripts on maths and science for BBC Bitesize. Maths scripts voiced by Terry Jones, and set in the mythical Bottom World of The Legend of Dick and Dom.

Multiple freelance assignments, producing comedy scripts for marketing videos, infotainment, live formats and sketch. Brands included Alcatel-Lucent, McAfee Security Systems and Siemens.

Radio9 ran on Radio 4 from 2004 to 2006, and was described as "a hoot" by the Independent, and "wonderful... in the great English tradition of nonsensical humour laced with a dash of social satire" by the FT.