US Local News - On the Front Page Front Line. BBC World Service
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct78fy
Recent BBC productions:
Analysis: How Real is the Existential Threat from AI (Radio 4 March 2024)
Jack Stilgoe explores whether concern about artificial intelligence’s existential threat is at the expense of other more immediate concerns about this fast developing technology. With Geoff Hinton, described by some as the godfather of AI.
The Inquiry: What Does Iran Want?
(World Service Jan 2024)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct4wf4
This is one of a series of episodes of The inquiry I’ve produced in recent months - other subjects include Is the war in Ukraine at a stalemate; Why life expectancy is falling in America; Can We Stop Oil, and Is the Global Nuclear Threat Level Rising?
Kentucky flooding
BBC World Service Sept 2022
The Test - the future of America’s economy (July 2021)
A three part series about the future of the US economy, presented by global economist Jim O’Neill. In three one hour documentaries for the World Service, he explores the post-Covid economy; inflation and the dollar; challenges from other currencies, including China and bitcoin.
THE EMPTY DESK (March 2020, World Service)
A two part series with Nada Tawfik reporting from America on the impact of Covid on women in the US Economy and how it has set back long term trends towards equal pay and boardroom representation.
Part one explores the impact of job losses and working from home after the Covid pandemic hit in 2020.
Part two explores what the future may hold for women in the US workplace.
Landscapes of the Mind
(Radio 4, Sept 2021)
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THE FIVE DAY ELECTION (BBC World Service, November 2020)
For the BBC World Service’s Assignment strand I produced this American Presidential election special in which I recorded remote interviews with Americans waiting for the result of the November 2020 Election - initially overnight as the first results came through, then over the following days until Joe Biden was declared the winner. Earlier in September, as the campaign reached its final stages I had produced Socially Distant, two different views of the divisions in American politics.
Seven Dead, 46 Injured: One Chicago Weekend
Clarke Peters (The Wire) narrates an emotional and immersive documentary about the people caught up in a summer weekend of shootings in Chicago.
100 Days of Brexit
100 Days of Brexit - for the BBC World Service - following four newly elected MPs in the north of England, as the UK leaves the European Union - and the country struggles to cope with the Covid19 emergency. Presented by Caz Graham.
Economic Recovery in the USA
Jim O’Neill presents this episode of In Business for BBC Radio 4, looking at the prospects for the US economy to recover from the Covid19 crisis.
Run These Roads
Rising country music star Tyler Childers on life during lockdown for BBC World Service’s In the Studio.
Click on the picture to listen to this 30 minute profile.
