Podcast & broadcast

I love storytelling in all its forms, but have a deep affinity with audio and podcasting. I’ve exec produced and story edited major investigative series, worked as a development consultant and written/hosted my own standalone factual documentaries. I’m an enthusiastic project and people manager, a sharp-eared script editor, and have a wealth of editorial experience. I’ve also made video shorts and been an expert contributor to network TV series.

Exec/story editor

Intrigue: Worse Than Murder

TellTale for BBC Radio 4/Sounds, 7 x 28 min, 2024

I EP’d this major historical investigation into the attempted kidnapping of Anna Murdoch in 1970, which went out on the BBC Sounds Intrigue strand. Managed producer and researchers, edited/signed off scripts, collaborated with commissioners, resolved legal queries, gave feedback on sound design and edits, and wrote show notes.

Intrigue: Word of God

TellTale for BBC Radio 4/Sounds, 6 x 28 min, 2025

Story edited a multipart series investigating the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC – a looted antiquities scandal with complex links to Christian nationalism, Trump and Project 2025. I led on narrative, wrote and edited scripts, and advised on legal and compliance issues.

Consultant

I’ve worked as an editorial consultant for studios including Novel, TellTale Industries and Antica Productions, advising on series ideas, project development and commissioner pitches. If you’d like me to advise on something you’re working on, do get in touch.

Writer/presenter

Power Plays

BBC Radio 3 (45 mins, 2019)

Documentary commissioned for the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, focusing on the extraordinary story of playwrights and directors who worked in communist East Germany, their battles with the Stasi – and the part they played in bringing down the Soviet Bloc.

Tom Stoppard Faces His Family’s Past

The New Yorker Radio Hour (10 mins, 2022)

As Tom Stoppard brought his newest and most autobiographical play to Broadway, I interviewed the legendary playwright for The New Yorker Radio Hour. We talked about memory, loss, the Holocaust and why he wanted to put his own story on stage after a lifetime of resisting the idea.

Exit Burbage

BBC Radio 3
45 mins, 2018

In-depth documentary examining the life of Richard Burbage – Shakespeare’s greatest collaborator, the actor who created the roles of Hamlet, Othello and Lear. I travelled from London to Washington DC, trying to put flesh on the bones of this mysterious figure.

Hello, Comrade Boris

BBC Radio 4
7 mins, 2016

Piece for the legendary From Our Own Correspondent strand, reporting from Ekaterinburg, Russia, on the city’s newest attraction – a museum devoted to the life and times of Boris Yeltsin, the much-maligned former premier.

TV

I’ve been a specialist contributor to BBC4/WGBH’s Shakespeare Uncovered TV series (2012–18) and Channel 4’s Shakespeare’s Tomb (2016).

I’ve been a panellist on the live debate programme The Big Questions (BBC1), and have often appeared live on BBC News as an arts commentator and journalist.

Video shorts

While I was at The Guardian, I fronted a number of short culture docs on topics including theatre, dance, design, architecture and visual art.