Independent audio production company based in Manchester, UK. Creating inventive, surprising and imaginative content across drama, factual, and branded podcasts
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I've spent most of my working life writing for newspapers, but love radio too. I got to combine the two in this @BBCRadio4 series I've produced/presented. Kind of a love letter to local news reporters and it starts today at 1.45pm, just before the Archers. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h3z…
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16 Jan 2023
Starts today: a kind of love letter to local reporters and local news by journalist Ian Wylie: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h3z…
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14 Apr 2022
'Our Friends in the North' continues today at 14:15 on @BBCRadio4.
In Episode 5, it’s 1974.
The 3-day working week begins, Nicky campaigns for the Labour Party & Geordie plans revenge on Benny Barratt.
The series resumes with Ep 6 on 12/05/22
bbc.in/3iOBv7L
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7 Apr 2022
Episode 4 of 'Our Friends in the North' airs today, at 14:15, on @BBCRadio4.
It's 1970. Nicky is intent on bringing down the government and the circles closes in on corrupt coppers in the Metropolitan Police force...
A @SparklabProds for @BBCRadio4.
bbc.in/3iM1LQ2
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5 Apr 2022
Just one week after publishing, the Open Letter on the future funding for the @AudioFund has over 200 signatures 😎👍 If you haven't, please add your name now and encourage others to do so - anyone can sign, freelancers, company employees and individuals audiocontentfundfuture.org/
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31 Mar 2022
Ep 3 of our new @BBCRadio4 drama 'Our Friends in the North' airs today at 14:15!
Opening in 1967, Nicky turns his back on the Labour Party, Mary and Tosker’s new flat is crumbling and Scotland Yard’s Dirty Squad come up with a solution...
bbc.in/3uILwc2
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17 Mar 2022
Superb & compelling radio: Our Friends In The North @bbc4drama by Peter Flannery, directed by Melanie Harris @SparklabProds first of episodes today. Great voices & cast, muscular & witty drama, the story is so relevant to our unlevel society right now.
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18 Mar 2022
I was nervous about this, but it’s perfect … bravo @SparklabProds bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m001…
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3 Mar 2022
Listen back to 'Banding: Love, Spit and Valve Oil'
tinyurl.com/MG-banding
@Martin_Green__ explores the phenomenon that is modern brass banding, asking,
what continues to draw people in? 🎺
Prod @becca_gaskell & @Martin_Green__
A @LepusArts & @SparklabProds co-production
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2 Oct 2021
We love Lepus! Making a 3-part R4 series with them...
1 Oct 2021
The big question we've all been asking; What is Lepus?
Script Editor Kate Leys talks about the "not at all secret network joining amazing people up" to explain how Lepus work with talented artists to make something new, exciting and slightly different!
lepus-arts.com/what-is-lepus
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24 Jul 2021
We're very sorry to hear of the passing of #PiersPlowright - many thanks to @sewell7 for drawing our attention to this interview
24 Jul 2021
Sad to hear that the hugely influential BBC radio producer #PiersPlowright has died. Anyone who is interested in the art of radio production should listen to this podcast interview in which he discusses his career… rogerkneebone.libsyn.com/pie…
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5 Jun 2021
3pm on @BBCRadio4, 'The Last of England' is a darkly comic drama by Neil McKay.
On an overnight ferry to Santander, 3 friends try (and fail) to come to terms with life, death and Brexit.
Starring @fayemckeever, @heresaclue2, @georgebukhari, Anthony O'Donnell & Gary Lewis
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27 May 2021
And what I didn’t know, or couldn’t see then / Was that she hadn’t really gone / The dead don’t go till you do, loved ones / The dead are still there holding our hands
❤️#NationalCovidMemorialWall💻Read thisiscolossal.com/2021/04/c…🖊#JackieKay🏴@JackieKayPoet 💻more.poetrysociety.org.uk/li…
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28 Apr 2021
Hardcore ravers from the early 80s, transcendental folk dances from around the world, and one short guy in a field in Southern Scotland. It’s all in there. #DancersAtDawn
Set your alarms for tomorrow, 11.30am @BBCRadio4
martingreenmusic.co.uk/dance…
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1 May 2021
We've just wrapped the remote recording of 'Last of England' - a new drama by Neil McKay for @BBCRadio4.
Super cast and a great 3 days.
Now over to @eloisewhitmore to mix it!
@fayemckeever, @heresaclue2, @georgebukhari, @L0uBlatherwick, Anthony O'Donnell & Gary Lewis
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30 Apr 2021
Why do we dance at dawn?
From hardcore ravers to Morris Dancers, @Martin_Green__ asks why the music, movement and surroundings makes dawn dancing truly special.
@SparklabProds for @BBCRadio4. Prod @becca_gaskell
28 Apr 2021
Hardcore ravers from the early 80s, transcendental folk dances from around the world, and one short guy in a field in Southern Scotland. It’s all in there. #DancersAtDawn
Set your alarms for tomorrow, 11.30am @BBCRadio4
martingreenmusic.co.uk/dance…
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Sparklab Productions retweeted
22 Apr 2021
Young people have the most at stake in the climate crisis.
Listen to 16-25-year-olds respond to the emergency through audio drama in our new podcast Ignite Climate Shorts
#AudioDrama #ClimateAction
#audio #EarthDay
#scicomm #igniteclimateshorts
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Sparklab Productions retweeted
28 Mar 2021
Deep down in the drains underneath Manchester 🤿🎙
Recordings to become part of my upcoming @NewCreativesN piece 'Journey of a Drop' 💧
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