The $64,000 Question
A tale of how 28 year old psychologist Joyce Brothers went head to head with the corrupt producers of a 1950s gameshow, using her encyclopaedic knowledge of boxing to achieve feats no one had expected..
Audio documentary | Producer/Director | Broadcast on BBC R4's Short Cuts
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Comet Dust
The incredible story of Ruth Coker Burks, a 25 year old single mother who, despite having no medical training, became a one woman support unit to hundreds of men dying of AIDS in the 80s. Radio 4's Pick of the Week.
Audio documentary | Producer/Director | Broadcast on BBC R4's Short Cuts
Belly Laugh
Belly Laugh
Three women in their 70s and 80s tell tales of their biggest belly laughs.
Winner: On Air Fest awards.
Audio documentary | Producer/Director | Broadcast on BBC R4's Short Cuts
The Cliffs
Mo and Tamim find themselves in the Calais Jungle for very different reasons. When their paths cross, they develop an unexpected connection, and a romantic relationship with a lot of grey areas. Won Gold at the New York Festivals and broke download records for the show.
Audio Documentary | Producer/Director | Broadcast on CBC's Love Me
Do Girls & Women Count?
With episodes in English, French and Spanish, this podcast features some of the world’s most impressive women’s rights activists on their personal journeys through inequality, and their life’s mission to re-balance a very unbalanced world.
Podcast | Series Producer/Director | Produced for Equal Measures 2030 with Fat Rat Films
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A View from the Edge
A meditation on loss and impermanence, through the personal cost of coastal erosion. Told by two women living in cliff-edge towns in the UK, as they lose their beloved homes to the sea.
Audio Documentary | Producer/Director with Chloe White | Broadcast on BBC R4's Short Cuts
The Phone line
The youngest phone operator at NACOA (the National Association for the Children of Alcoholics) describes her experiences working on the helpline when children call.
Audio Documentary | Producer/Director | Broadcast on BBC R4's Short Cuts
Love Rival
Vanessa Woods describes the year in which her new relationship was challenged by a very unexpected kind of love rival. Also featured on Snap Judgement, Unfictional, ABC’s Pocket Docs, Invisibilia's Sampler and at Hot Docs.
Audio Documentary | Producer/Director | Broadcast on CBC's Love Me
The Ascent
A tragic loss during the hurricane of 1987 leads to an unusual legacy in Hastings' centuries old fishing community.
Audio Documentary | Producer/Director with Will Davies | Broadcast on BBC R4's Short Cuts
Sidra’s Diary
Fifteen-year-old Sidra Yussef is a romantic and a big dreamer. With the advent of war in Syria, she and her Circassian family found themselves moving back to the region that their ancestors had fled 150 years ago, and eventually through four cultures, five languages, and nine schools. Today, while she grapples with all of the normal complications of teenage life, Sidra is also trying to figure out a very fractured sense of identity. Here, as she begins life at her ninth school - this time in Istanbul - she takes us into her world via her audio diaries.
Audio Documentary | Producer/Director | Co-created with Sidra Yussef, Executive Produced by Cathy Fitzgerald | Supported by The Whickers
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A New Normal
A series of five documentaries featuring the audio diaries of five Syrians as they attempt to lay down roots in their countries of asylum. With diarists in the UK, Germany, Sweden, and Turkey, the series is intended to give an intimate insight into the day-to-day experience of trying to start life from scratch in an alien country, having left everything you know behind. Featured in Bello Collective's top 100 outstanding pieces of audio for 2017 and the Financial Times, and also at London Short Film Festival, Hot Docs Podcast Festival and the Migration Museum.
This Dark Sea
The story of a night swim that changed one man's life forever.
Audio Documentary | Producer/Director | Broadcast on BBC R4's Short Cuts
The Connor Brothers
The remarkable story of The Connor Brothers, who took the art world by storm but hid a shocking secret.
Audio Documentary | Producer/Director | Broadcast on BBC R4's Short Cuts
Dream Symphony
Stuart Sharp dreamt an entire symphony; his quest to get it made took him to his lowest lows and highest highs. Here he tells his story.
Audio Documentary | Producer/Director with Olivia Humphreys | Broadcast on BBC R4's Short Cuts