I started making podcasts in 2016. Back then I didn't really know anything about what I was doing and, while I'm proud of these shows and acknowledge that they were important steps to where I am now, I feel like they don't really represent my work and who I am.
These shows are still on the internet if you want to find them, I know they mean a lot to a not insignificant number of people.
Tin Can is the story of Gene Reynolds, a pilot who becomes stranded out in space after an accident aboard his ship.
Debuting in July 2016, Tin Can was initially a tech demo. However it had a much, much more positive reception than expected and soon the show became a fully formed audio drama podcast, lasting 14 episodes before concluding in 2018
'A subtle & sparse space exploration show with great writing, wonderful voice acting, and masterful sound design. Lovely pacing and a compelling story make it one of the few podcasts I've listened to more than once through.'
- Sarah Rhea Werner (Girl In Space)
An audio drama about ghosts, cats, and the slightly odd people who look after them.
Middle:Below was a much larger undertaking than Tin Can, and was the first production under the Tin Can Audio banner. It took myself and the team behind the show to festivals and podcast industry events, and taught me how to run a show. We even had the opportunity to run live shows!
Plans were in place to make a season 2, but had to be shuttered due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
The Dungeon Economic Model is a series of informational mind incursions designed to provide townships with instruction and information concerning the business of The Dungeon Economic Model
A series that came out of a silly writing exercise, The Dungeon Economic Model was a show that took forever to get recorded owing to everyone involved having jobs and dotted around the UK. It took the first UK lockdown in early 2020 to actually get us to record and edit it.
It debuted at PodUK in 2020 and was featured on Podcast Radio Hour on BBC Radio 4 Extra.
The team and I have often talked about making more, but a combination of changing life and work circumstances has left it in a sort of limbo, so I've put it here...for now.
In September 2020, I decided to interview my parents about their time working in the National Health Service in the UK.
After recording the interviews, I took the tape and turned it into an 8-part, creative nonfiction podcast series, featuring stories from 30 years of working in medicine.
There are conversations about education, the experience of running a ward, relationships with colleagues and patients, the dark sense of humour that comes with the job, as well as some wild stories that I grew up with.
This was very much a one-off, personal project and a chance to capture these stories I'd spent a lifetime half-remembering. I also wanted to see how making a documentary series would work, and I learned a lot of skills that set me up for my later non-fiction work.
