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The Great European Disaster Movie

This film is still available on the BBC iPlayer and created a big debate about the possible future of the European Union. I had the pleasure of helping the post-production team with some fictional news headlines from a near future.

The Eternal Moment (Radio Drama)

Listen here to the mind-bending Radio Play by Iain Chambers and Peter Blegvad. It was such a pleasure to perform alongside the wonderful John Ramm. The transformative power of storytelling is explored through my character Zoe, a psychiatric patient who believes she is the Queen of Time. Zoe is confident that her map-like drawings can evokeContinue reading “The Eternal Moment (Radio Drama)”

I love my life!

What a great week! First doing a great and surreal radio play written by Peter Blegvad and directed by Iain Chambers and with the superb John Ramm. Next, venting any buried aggression by playing a woman raised by ogres in the video game ‘Heretic Kingdoms’ and then yesterday filming a heartfelt story of realisation andContinue reading “I love my life!”

“Guns of Icarus” Trailer VO

I love a good trailer. Good fun to work with the guys at Muse Games for this epic. https://youtu.be/rc11iGqr_fs

Donmar trailer

My voice in a beautiful trailer sandwiched between Brian Cox (Sir?) and Ardal O’Hanlon..

BBC Radio Drama “Austerlitz”

On Sunday December 16, 2012, BBC Radio 3 broadcast a radio dramatisation of W.G. Sebald’s novel Austerlitz. It was lovely to work with the great John Taylor from Fiction Factory again. The first of Sebald’s haunting masterpieces to be dramatised for radio, it follows its protagonist on a haunting tour of European cities, frontiers toContinue reading “BBC Radio Drama “Austerlitz””

Graceling Trilogy by Kristin Cashore

I recently completed reading these three fantasy novels for Orion publishing. A superb, critically acclaimed and already best-selling debut from a stunning new author. Listen to an extract from ‘Graceling’ It was such a pleasure working in the Strathmore recording studio, particularly the lunchtime we spent trying to work out the accents characters from aContinue reading “Graceling Trilogy by Kristin Cashore”

Sony Radio Award

I’m pleased to say that ‘Use It Or Lose It’ won a Silver in the Drama category of the Sony Radio Award. Here’s what the judges said, “In awarding the Silver to this production, the drama panel was very impressed by the narrative structure and the way the sound employed played as much a partContinue reading “Sony Radio Award”