📷 Ben, Kermit & Jim by Diana Jarvis

'What you do is Haute couture Ben…the best sound of any podcast'
- Farah Nayeri (host of CultureBlast, journalist, author)

Back at the beginning of 21st Century I was answering the phones on EssexFM and then through hard work and luck became the lead radio producer working on the breakfast show on ClassicFM, then Smooth Radio with a detour into CBeebies radio. I left this behind for podcasting a decade or so ago - specialising in the arts culture with a podcast for the Barbican and Southbank Centre amongst many others. In parallel to this I created the much-loved series Arctic Circle’s Daylight Music - originally based in Islington, but now found in some beautiful church spaces in East London and Kent.

Recent clients: Cultureblast, Barbican, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Scottish Ensemble, Margate Radio, Free Range, Arctic Circle, Daylight Music.

Previous clients: Britten Sinfonia, Smooth Radio, Sound and Music, CBeebies Radio, Southbank Centre, BBC Proms, Kings Place, Resonance FM, Singapore Airlines, BBC Radio 2, Chill DAB, Classic FM.

Featuring the voices of Oscar, BAFTA & Grammy winners, poets, curlews, composer, bruatlism and more:

Lady Mariner with David Attenborough (Academy of St Martin in the Fields)
Tate Modern 24 hours performance of Gavin Bryars – Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet (ASMF)
Station to Station project with Lonelady (Barbican)
Regina King - If Beale Street Could Talk (Barbican)
Kamasi Washington (Barbican)
Benjamin Britten’s Curlew River - (Barbican)
Erika Fox - International Women’s Day (Sound and Music)
Perspective Festival (National Concert Hall, Dublin)
The Practical Visionary on WIlliam Blake (Hercules Editions)
Lady Mariner with David Attenborough (Academy of St Martin in the Fields)
Anna Meredith (Kings Place Podcast)

*Produced & presented by ✉️ ben@eshmade.com