In 2000 I joined the team of Compression, a multimedia start-up, as cross-platform producer. I developed a number of online projects for the football Website 365.
The City Speaks was a cross-platform project consisting of 2 BBC radio dramas, a feature film and 6 collaborations between audio drama directors, script-writers and artist film-makers.
This collaboration between BBC radio drama and Film London was a highly innovative and ambitious multi-platform project and an experiment in the emerging world of visual radio, currently being pioneered at the BBC.
The film premiered at bfi Southbank (formerly the National Film Theatre) on Monday the 11th of March 2008. It has since been shown at various film festivals. The City Speaks was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and on digital TV (under the red button on cable, satellite and freeview) on the 19th and 20th of March 2008. The 6 separate films were available on the BBC Film Network Website during March 2008.
The Audiotheque is a forum for new radio producing talent, created during 2006 after I came across Arteradio in France and Deutschlandradio Kultur in Germany.
I contacted a number of UK Universities and met Rob Newman at Leicester De Montfort University where I gave a talk to students. We developed the idea of a partnership and, since I left the BBC, that partnership is still growing.