Visiting Lecturer
in Radio
Employment
Since April 1998
- Freelance/Independent Producer, Falling Tree Productions (formerly
Alan Hall Associates)
Visiting Lecturer
and Consultant
1990-98: BBC Broadcasting
House, London. Staff Producer, Classical Music Department. Series
Producer, Hear and Now, Jazz Record Requests, Proms
News, Between The Ears.
Whilst specialising
in feature-making and new music programming, I've produced programmes
for Radio 4 and 5 as well as the full range of Radio 3's output -
Documentary features, magazine programmes, live concert relays, drivetime
shows, studio music sessions and mixed format recordings.
Recent
work
Independent Tate
Modern/Acoustiguide Bankside Audio Guide
Production BBC R3 Three Places In New England (tx. July 2000)
Credits BBC R4 New Soundings (4-part series, tx. June 2000)
The Coventry Blitz (Archive Hour, tx. Nov 2000)
CBC Toronto War’s Embers (tx. Feb. 1999)
YLE Finland A Thomas Ades Portrait (tx. March 1999)
BBC
Radio 3
BBC Radio The Orchestras of North America (Ladbroke Radio),
Credits At the Window (Features Dept.), A Patchwork Planet,
(freelance) The Big Fugue, Settling the Score (Music Dept.),
In Tune (Arts Dept), The Idea of Gould (BBC Wales)
BBC Radio 4
Stephanie Hughes Takes Notes (Loftus Productions)
Alarmed, 4 Minutes 33, The Way Home (Music Dept.)
Broadcasting Awards
1994 - Prix Italia Special
Prize for Monument
1994 - Sony Bronze
Award for Monument
1997 - Sony Gold
Award for Beethoven's Fifth
1997 - Prix Italia
for Knoxville: Summer of 1995
1997 - Prix Italia
Special Mention for Beethoven's Fifth
1998 - Prix Bohemia
for Beethoven's
Fifth
Radio production involves
the devising of programme proposals, the management of production
and technical staff, responsibility for budgets, briefing presenters,
scripting, fixing, interviewing, event promotion, location recording,
digital / analogue editing and mixing, studio production and programme
publicity.
Presentation Experience
Midnight Oil
(1993-95) and ad hoc programmes (on traditional music, Music In
Our Time, Music Weekly, Music Matters)
Event Management
Radio 3's first ever Roadshow
(May 1995) - four hours of live music, interviews and audience participation.
Hear and Now at the ICA concert series (twice yearly)
Production Innovations
Bi-media development for
simulcast on Radio and TV exploiting vision and two soundtracks (in
development)
A Game of Two
Halves, a music football feature devised for the 1994 World Cup
on Radio 3 and 5 Live
Teaching
BBC Radio Training - addressing
groups of experienced Producers on the craft of feature-making
Programme Credits
Soundings,
Sunday Feature, The Proms, The Music Machine,
Music In Our Time, Composer of the Week, In Tune,
On Air
A number of my productions
have been broadcast in the United States, Canada, Australia and throughout
the European Broadcasting Union
1989-90: Senior Planning
Assistant, Radio 3 (Controller's Office) schedule planning (features,
drama, talks and music)
1986-89: Planning
Assistant, Radio 3 Music Department
1885-86: Clerical
Assistant, BBC Publications
Non-BBC
Career
Teaching 1998
onwards - Visiting Lecturer Goldsmiths College, University of London
(MA in Radio, BA in Media and Communications)
1995-onwards:
Park Lane Group - Chairman of Young Artists' Series programme committee
and Member of Artistic Committee (annual South Bank Centre series)
1989-91: Visiting
Lecturer, Music department, Goldsmiths' College, University of London
1987-89: Music
copying for Chester Music and Woza Music
1986-91: Journalism
Music Critic (Musical Times, BBC Music Magazine, The
Wire, Classic CD, Hampstead & Highgate Express)
Education
1974-81: Chatham House Grammar
School, Ramsgate, Kent.
1982-85: University
of Leeds, Yorkshire. B.A. (Hons) in Music and Lord Snowdon Academic
Prize. Subsidiary
studies: English and History of Art
1985-87: Goldsmiths'
College, University of London, M.Mus. Composition
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