Tag: Lyndon Saunders

Hello. When Suzy asked me to contribute something for her new radio blog, I started writing the following with the intention of a bit of an industry overview but it’s ended up as an immersive, personal account of how intimate an experience producing radio documentaries is.  So, in the end, I decided to overtly answer the question ‘what’s so special about making radio?’ from my own point of view.  Sorry if that results in something a little bit self-obsessed but the beauty of making radio is that it’s really personal. I’ve presumed, if you’re reading this, then you’re likely to be an aspiring producer with an interest or at least a little flirtation with making radio documentaries. I hope it’s relevant stuff.

I’m currently a TV producer but have produced BBC radio documentaries for Radio 1, 1Xtra, 5 live, Radio 4 and World Service for a combined six years at different points during my career.  As anyone who started out in radio but has moved on would most likely tell you, ‘I would go back to it in a heartbeat’.  Not that I don’t love making telly but radio remains this special, intimate, immediate and cerebral way of communicating which is why, in a world of whiz-bang content and diverse platforms, the oldest form of AV broadcasting is still smashing it.

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