Peanut & Crumb

Last night I won Best Factual/Documentary Producer at the AudioUK Production Awards! Incredibly grateful and still totally shocked. Thanks to the Peanut & Crumb team who make the work possible - Jane Gerber, Katie Derham + Sarah Strickland. And the biggest thanks to my exec/manager/all round audio mentor Jack Howson who has been so integral in how I've grown as a producer and supports me throughout every twist and turn. That kind of guidance is a rare and important thing and I hope to offer it to others someday. This award is shared with all the contributors, presenters + mix engineers I've worked with. But a particular mention to the brilliant Tice Cin. Our BBC documentary 'How Much Can You Say?' explored the silence surrounding North London's heroin trade and was such a unique collaboration. It took so much bravery from her and all the contributors and cemented why I think the making and sharing of documentary work matters. Got to also shout out the producers who won alongside me - Anna Sinfield, Emma Barnaby + Talia Augustidis. They've all made work that has hugely inspired me and help make the audio community a lovely thing to be a part of. And then finally a special bonus thanks to Bridey Addison-Child, my first ever audio friend and collaborator. Behind every programme I make there is a stream of supportive messages, last min phone calls and late night pep talks from them. The support of audio pals is something I never take for granted and I think we should celebrate it more!

Peanut & Crumb enjoyed a fun night doing the double at the AudioUK Audio Production Awards. I'm most thrilled for Jude Shapiro, officially (& deservedly) THE BEST FACTUAL PRODUCER. Collaborating with Jude is the best part of my job - I'm consistently inspired by her talent, ideas & ethos. The sweet sweet icing on the cake was another Climate award for Get Birding. This podcast/video game/who-knows-what-else is the product of many many people, but special props to Kwesia X, Jane Gerber, Sarah Strickland, Anand Jagatia, Andy Fell & Jesse Lawson 🕊️

You can now listen to ‘Faith On The Fly: The airport chaplains’ a radio doc I have produced and presented (!) for the BBC World Service. It’s about Heathrow airport’s multi-faith chaplains who circulate through terminals, giving spiritual and emotional support to passengers and staff. There’s only 20 of them and 200,000 passengers each day so their task is mammoth. They deal with the whole range of things that an airport can throw at you - nervous fliers, last minute travelling for funerals, angry delayed people, deaths on incoming flights - and almost all of their encounters are by chance. I followed them around for 6 days, in matching high-vis, chatting to whoever they came across and trying to capture their unique mission. It was an intense week and I’ll never look at airports in the same way but to see how faith and meaning can be woven into such a hectic commercial environment was fascinating and at times very moving. This was an idea I had about 9 years ago but waited on until I felt ready to do it properly. So nice to finally let go of that ancient thought and turn it into something real. A huge amount of appreciation to Heathrow and the Multi-Faith Chaplaincy plus all the strangers I met. Also exec Jack Howson and mix engineer Arlie Adlington for Peanut & Crumb Listen now on BBC Sounds, or on the BBC World Service this Thursday at 9:30am https://lnkd.in/eRSB-z_7

Our latest for the World Service: 'Faith on the fly: The airport chaplains' ✈️ Headed up by Reverend Ruth Bottoms, Heathrow's team of 20 multi-faith chaplains offer sanctuary and support to passengers and staff in the unpredictable environment of a mega airport. Jude Shapiro spent a week with the chaplains and those they encounter to see what happens when faith, flight and the stresses of Europe’s busiest airport combine. With thanks to Heathrow & the Multi-Faith Chaplaincy. https://lnkd.in/epkFA-av

Hace unas semanas tuve la muy bonita invitación del “Queen Elizabeth Price for Engineering” para participar del podcast “Create the Future”. Conversé junto a Willy Allègre del Kerpape Rehabilitation Center de Francia sobre el futuro de la impresión 3D en tecnologías asistivas. Una charla maravillosa sobre las ventajas y desafíos que presentamos en Europa y en América Latina. Aquí el link de Spotify de nuestra charla 🦾: https://lnkd.in/eQjQUMHK

I had the great privilege of joining the "Create the Future" Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering podcast alongside Enzo Romero 🦾, General Manager at LAT Bionics and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Innovator Under 35. Together, we explored the exciting future of #3Dprinting in #assistive #technologies, discussing the incredible opportunities it brings to enhance the lives of people with #disabilities. It was a fascinating conversation about the challenges and innovations we are advancing in Europe and Latin America. I specifically spoke about the REHAB-LAB community, managed by Centre Mutualiste de Kerpape and accelerated by the CoWork'HIT Innovation Center: https://rehab-lab.org/ A huge thank you to Roma Agrawal and to the Create the Future podcast team for this amazing opportunity! 🎧 Listen to our conversation here: 

Sharing a programme released earlier this year, that’s part of my nomination for Best Documentary Producer at the APAs... 'How Much Can You Say?' is a radio documentary made with novelist and poet Tice Cin about the decades long gang warfare in North London involving Turkish, Turkish Cypriot and Kurdish drug dealers. We spoke to some of the women and young people caught up in that world and, through interviews, poetry and reflections, tried to unpick the silence that surrounds it until today. This project required a lot - careful collaboration, a lot of uncertainty, working to keep everyone safe - and several months later I'm really proud of how we navigated through all of that together. You can still listen on BBC Sounds and go read Tice's book 'Keeping The House' that came before this programme. Produced for the BBC Radio 4 Illuminated strand + Peanut & Crumb

On this #NationalEngineeringDay we are thinking of all the inspiring #EngineeringRoleModels we work with for the Create The Future Podcast https://lnkd.in/ePc2Q8f we produce for Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. Today we are dispelling gender stereotypes in engineering, technology & science at TeenTech chatting to young people about careers in gaming!

For the past year, elections have dominated global news and conversations. How can engineering support or enhance decision-making? Joining Guru Madhavan in this week's episode of #CreateTheFuture, is Charles Phelps, provost emeritus of the University of Rochester and expert in health economics, and Eswaran Subrahmanian, research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and expert in decision support systems. Listen to the full episode here: https://buff.ly/4f8esR5 Peanut & Crumb

I’m very excited to share that I’ve been co-producing a new programme for BBC Radio 3 with Joy Nkoyo and the fabulous team at Peanut & Crumb. Each episode is a 5.5 hr relaxing mix of classical music and nature sounds to help you get to sleep 😴🌿 ‘Sleep Tracks’ is part of BBC Radio 3 Unwind, a new 24/7 stream available now on BBC Sounds. Stream ‘Sleep Tracks’ every night from 00:30 til 06:00 Music curated by Joy Nkoyo  Mixes by me & Joy Exec producers Katie Derham & Jack Howson https://lnkd.in/eks5GR9X