Visit to Aardman Animation

It was great to meet Peter Lord (and Morph of course) and be shown around the Aardman studios.

Mixing with Auntie Again!

August and September 2016 saw me back in Theatres 1&2 at BBC Bristol covering dave, Peter and Steve whilst they took holiday. It was fun seeing old and new friends and once again working on the Antiques Roadshow

Ireland Trip – March 2016

In March 2016 I popped over to Ireland to work with the lovely John and Cepa of Crossing the Line Films, advising on their 4 part urban wildlife series “Ireland’s Wild Cities”. Working with the talented Paul Finan in his … Read More

Paris European Film Festival

Well … after the success of the Nordkapp talks I was invited to talk at the Louis Lumier Academy in Paris .. great place and in an interesting film studio complex – some interesting props from one of my favorite … Read More

Nordkapp Film Festival

A wonderful privilege to be asked to speak at the Nordkapp Film Festival in Honningsvåg Norway – as far north as you can be in mainland Europe. Woderful friendly, talented film makers. Sound Recordist Mary Milton and I had a … Read More

IPS Training Weekend

Early in Feb I pottered off to a great weekend away in Leamington Spa. A get together of post production and production sound mixers. I made new aquaintences and caught up with some old friends. Definitely worth being a member … Read More

The Con

Well .. having just finished on “The Great British Year” for BBC 1 Andrew Wilson and I have just completed 8 programmes about and for the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (Yes .. the Australian one). Really interesting shorts about each … Read More

The Great British Year – Seasons

I’ve finished mixing Jame’s Brickel’s series about how we and our wildlife are governed by the vibrancy and rhythm of our changing seasons. Thanks as always to Kate Hopkins and Jonny Crew for fabulous sounds in the tracklay and thanks … Read More

Halycon Days: Return to Radio

November/December was busy making a set of radio programmes for CBBC Radio. Myself and Andrew Wilson had loads of creative fun working with the ever professional and lovely Philippa Forrester (Halcyon Media) on a series of programmes about birdsong, including … Read More

Wild Arabia – Programme 1

Late December found me back in Big Bang mixing Programme 1 of the BBC mini series Wild Arabia. A really delightful , interesting programme covering an area not often seen, in the footsteps of T E Lawrence.

RTS Sound Jury October 2012

Had a great day with other sound professionals judging this year’s sound entries for the Royal Television Society. … even get to go to the ball!

What I’ve Been Up To – Mixing!

Well finally I’ve got it together and started to update this site… Since starting at the University of the West of England I’ve been keeping up my professional practise by mixing a few projects each year. In order these are: … Read More

A Sad Day

Said goodbye to an influential mentor today. Peter Rose, TV sound supervisor taught me much about many aspects of TV sound, dealing with production and above all how to keep things simple. “The more mics you put out the more … Read More