Radio

A documentary about first deaths and last dances, I produced A Dancer Dies Twice for BBC Radio 4 in 2016.

Featuring Gabriella Schmidt, Isabel Mortimer from Dancers' Career Development, and former principal ballerinas Natasha Oughtred and Wendy Whelan.

As well as recordings of young dancers training at the Royal Ballet School and reharsals at Sage Dance Company and the Company of Elders.

From the first anxious glance in the mirror to the last touch - how does the language of our bodies change as we age?

A Dancer Dies Twice received the Whicker’s World Foundation Audio Recognition Award in 2017, a Special Commendation at the Prix Europa in 2016 and was featured in This American Life.

I produced A Sense of Quietness for our BBC Radio 4 series Lights Out in November 2018.

The documentary follows a line of connection through four women across two referendums, exploring the unexpected consequences of talking about abortion.

It features the voices of Brianna Parkins, Siobhan McHugh and Anne Connolly. With additional recordings courtesy of Zoë Comyns and Regan Hutchins.

This was the first radio documentary from the UK to win the Prix Europa for Best Documentary and the IDA Documentary Award. It also received the Amnesty Media Award, BBC Radio and Music Award and a Bronze Third Coast International Audio Award.

Dust was the last edition of our BBC Radio 4 series Lights Out, broadcast in November 2023.

It was inspired by ideas in the Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason’s book On Time and Water.

"I noticed that language seems to fail us. How do you write about the foundations of our existence? That is how mythology enters very naturally into the story, because history is about ideas, religions, empires, wars and culture. Mythology is about the fundaments. Sun, moon, wind, oceans, great floods and tragic gods... We are living in mythological times, where we are shaking the fundaments." - Andri Snær Magnason

Featuring both Andri Snær Magnason and the Scottish artist Katie Paterson, it explores how our imagination can help us hold the moment we live in.

The recording of the journey to Okjökull was made by Guðni Tómasson. And the documentary’s original music was composed and performed by Phil Smith and Zac Gvi.

You can read a transcript here.

In 2024, ‘Dust’ won the Grand Prix Marulić for Best Documentary and Silver Audio Production Award for Sustainability and Climate coverage.

"All of these [outsider artists] are fighting the world by doing this, that's what this is about... they are fighting the world. It's about imposing your own personality and your own vision on a world that is uniform."

In September 2019, I made a documentary about Stephen Wright’s House of Dreams in East Dulwich, for BBC Radio 4.

"I always say, it's my house - I'll do what I want. People choose to come into the house, that's fine by me, of course you're extremely welcome to come through the door, but when you come into my world it's my rules."

The documentary features original music made by Jeremy Warmsley, some of which he built from recordings we’d created together using a bag of old toys, sellotape and other things that made enjoyable noises. The soundtrack is available for download here.

What happens to a documentary medium which evaporates into thin air? Into the Ether explored how our memory for radio documentaries might shape the sound of their future.

Created in March 2026, for BBC Radio 4, the documentary unearthed audio treasures from the radiophonic past and fragments of lost features. Examining the creative invitations of radio’s past and asking whether the imaginative possibilities of the medium might change if we chose to remember it differently.

It featured original music by Phil Smith and a little additional composition by me.

[Sound of sky splitting]

[Sound of heart accelerating]

[Sound of shadows behind a door]

Created in March 2021 for BBC Radio 4, the poet Raymond Antrobus explores the art of translating sound for the eye, looking at the poetic possibilities of closed captions.

What can these captions - designed to illuminate the sound world of a film or TV show - reveal about how we conceive of sound itself?

Raymond speaks to fellow D/deaf poets and artists to explore their experiences navigating the spaces between the words. Are closed captions just a simple act of transcription - [Doorbell rings] - or a more subjective act of translation? How might we reimagine them?

[Sound of something invented]

Featuring the sound artist Christine Sun Kim, poet Meg Day, filmmaker and founding member of FWD Doc Lindsey Dryden and the captioner Calum Davidson from Red Bee Media. With poetic captions inspired by the work of Christine Sun Kim.

This documentary was produced in three forms - as a radio broadcast, as a transcript with annotations from Raymond and as a subtitled video.

Inventions in Sound won bronze at the Third Coast International Audio Festival in 2021 - “By radically de-centering hearing listeners, Inventions in Sound thinks deeply about what sound is. It pokes at ableist ideas in poetic, soulful, challenging ways that could really only work in this medium. A polemic full of magical, jewel-like moments that exploded our brains, took us out of our bodies, made us cry, and haunted us long after listening." — Judges Gretta Cohn, Axel Kacoutié, Arionne Nettles, Sophia Paliza Carre & Sophie Townsend.

I produced this BBC Radio 3 Between the Ears, alongside the journalist Matthew Green, in 2017. It explored the inner lives of women who care for former service personnel suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Weaving together audio diaries, interviews and a shifting soundscape built from the domestic space.

The Enemy Within won the Gold Award for Best Factual Storytelling at the ARIAS in 2017 and was nominated for the both the Prix Italia and the Prix Europa.

I produced Time Flies with Michael Segalov for BBC Radio 4 in 2022. For more than 30 years, brothers Roman and Maz Piekarski dedicated their every waking minute to building and sustaining Cuckooland - the world’s largest collection of antique cuckoo clocks. At the time of recording, they had over 700 clocks inside their Cheshire home.

Time Flies was nominated for the Phonurgia Nova and was featured in Miranda Sawyer’s 10 Best Listens for 2022 for The Observer.