[I bought this short wave Sony radio to go to Chile to teach in 1994 and have carried it with me everywhere ever since. Can’t work out how to get short wave on it though… the headphones are ones I use mainly for Djing… and occasionally if I am recording in a noisy place]

Broadcast Journalism

I have been researching, producing and presenting radio features and programmes since 1987, including four years compiling and presenting own weekly one hour programme Earthbeat for BBC Radio Scotland 1990-94. I have had great fun making numerous specialist radio series, cultural documentaries and features, including:

2004 July 7th: Contributer BBC Radio 4 ‘Thinking Allowed’ presented by Laurie Taylor talking about music in Cuba based on recent book chapter ‘“‘Ay Díos, Ampárame’ (O God, Protect Me): Music in Cuba during the 1990s, the ‘Special Period,” in Island Musics, ed. Kevin Dawe, Berg 2004, pp. 77-99
2003 September. Presenter and co-researcher, Chile Heart And Soul, BBC Radio 3 documentary on culture in Chile on the 30th anniversary of the 1973 coup d’etat. Produced by Kirsty Pope.

2004-5 Member Jury Panel BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards
2003 Guest ‘World Routes’, Saturday Radio 3 presented by Lucy Dúran
2002 Contributor BBC Radio 3 Proms De Falla flamenco programme and other music
programmes
1997-8 Contributor BBC World Music Day: 01-01-2001 Portugal/Cuba
1998 Independent commission, BBC Radio 3 Traditional/World Music, Songs from a Country Called Spain (6 programmes).
1995-6 BBC World Service, Ports of Call (12 programmes: 2 series of 6).
1990-7 BBC Radio 3: The Music of Bolivia; The Music of Peru; Flamenco; The Music of Finland.
1990-4Originator/ presenter/ compiler Earthbeat, Radio Scotland's weekly one hour, world music
programme, with live interviews, reports, genre/country focuses.
1993-4 Four series of Snatched From The Flames (20 programmes).
1988+ BBC researcher, presenter, producer: numerous full length documentary programmes and features, and full length series for BBC Radios 3, 4 (Kaleidoscope, Night Waves), BBC Scotland and World Service including: El reparador de sueños: Music and Revolution in Cuba; World Music. Features on: Cuban Music;Music of Finland; Finnish Tango; The Music of the Clarsach; Misa Flamenca, Spain; Canto Libre in the Chile Stadium; Spanish New Flamenco; Basque Music; Els Joglars, Catalonia; Atxaga's Obabakoak (Basque); Songs of the Route to Santiago de Compostela; ANC Election Songs etc.
1995-6 Adapted books for radio: e.g. R4 Book at Bedtime (Paula by Isabel Allende);
R.Scotland lunchtime serials. Janet Malcolm book on Sylvia Plath)
1988-98 Monthly contributor to Books programme, Radio Euskadi, Bilbao, Basque
Country, Spain.