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• Currently working on projects for BBC Sounds, BBC Radio 4 and Audible• Co-produced Danny Robins paranormal podcasts Uncanny, The Witch Farm and The Battersea Poltergeist for BBC Sounds/BBC Radio 4• Other recent BBC Radio 4/BBC Sounds projects include Children of the Stones, Hunting Ghosts with Gatiss and Coles, and Lemn Sissay's Poetry Rebels • Produced/exec produced Inside Ghosts and Inside Bad Education podcasts for BBC Sounds• Produced soap opera for kids The Space Programme, and kids true-crime series Truthdiggers, for Fun Kids Radio• Produced The MOJO Innovators podcast for MOJO magazine/Bauer Media• Produced full-cast dramas Car Crash, Arkham County, Peter Pan, The Wizard of Oz and The Conception of Terror: Tales inspired by M.R. James (New York Festivals Radio Awards 2020 Best Drama Special: Gold; ARIA Awards 2020 Best Fictional Storytelling: Silver) for Audible Originals• Co-produced Haunted podcast for Panoply/Chalk and Blade, presented by Danny Robins• Produced Blood on Satan's Claw audio drama for Audible, starring Mark Gatiss and Reece Shearsmith (New York Festivals Radio Awards 2019 Best Drama Special: Gold)• Produced audio drama series Baker's End (Winner of the New York Festivals Radio Award 2017 for Best Audiobook, and finalist in BBC Audio Drama Awards 2017) and The Brenda and Effie Mysteries (Winner of the New York Festivals Radio Award 2015 for Best Audiobook)• Produced horror anthology audio series 'Hammer Chillers' in collaboration with Hammer Films• Written, directed and produced ten series of comedy/drama series The Scarifyers, as heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra• Produced documentaries for Radio 2 and Radio 4 on subjects including Douglas Adams and The Goodies.

• Produced The Audio Long Reads, Politics Weekly and Brexit Means podcasts for The Guardian. Previously produced The Books Podcast, Tech Weekly, Science Weekly, The Global Development Podcast and others.

• Oversaw commissioning rounds for all BBC networks• Made documentaries for BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 1Xtra; originated Radio 2 Gloria Estefan Latin music series

• Launched The Huey Show on BBC 6Music• Produced 12 x 60 min This Is Who I Am programmes (Kerrang! Radio)• Made documentaries for BBC Radio 2 on Springsteen, Monty Python and David Hasselhoff.

• Produced scores of documentaries, on subjects ranging from the Icelandic music scene to UFOs and the Paris riots• Reported from festivals including Cannes, the Oscars, Coachella, South by Southwest, Sundance and Sonar• Worked on the Evening Session and Lamacq Live with Steve Lamacq• Produced Annie on One with Annie Nightingale and guest presenters including Lauren Laverne