A RADIO production company in North Berwick, East Lothian, has been nominated twice in UK-wide awards celebrating the best of radio production.
Rockethouse Productions has been shortlisted in the Indie of the Year and Best Sound Designer categories of the Radio Production Awards, run by The Radio Academy.
The latter nomination is for the company’s director, Matt Thompson. Rockethouse specialises in what Thompson describes as “bespoke radio”, the company strapline being ‘beautiful and unexpected radio’.
Productions this year include the 30-part ‘Noise – A human history‘, for BBC Radio 4.
Thompson has just returned from Chicago, in the US, after receiving an honourable mention in the documentary category of the prestigious Third Coast Awards.
Meanwhile, Gus Beattie (pictured) – an exec producer with Glasgow-based the Comedy Unit has been nominated in the Best Entertainment Producer category , for productions such as Fags, Mags and Bags, Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard and Sketchorama: Absolutely Special (all for BBC Radio 4).
The winners will be announced on the 26th of this month.
The shortlist reads, as follows:
Best Documentary/Feature Maker
Deborah Dudgeon – Whistledown Productions
Simon Jacobs – Unique
Richard Latto – BBC Radio Solent
Ben Taylor – Snappin’ Turtle Productions
Martin Williams – BBC Wales
Best Entertainment Producer
Gus Beattie – The Comedy Unit
Sam Bryant – BBC Radio Comedy
Simon Buschenfeld – Heart Network, Global
David Tyler – Pozzitive
Alison Vernon Smith – BBC Radio Comedy
Best Music Entertainment Producer
Bernard Achampong – BBC Radio 1Xtra
Kate Cocker – Wise Buddah
Rebecca Maxted – Freelance
Phil Noyce – Classic FM
Tom Whalley – Wise Buddah
Best Live Music Producer/Engineer
Joe Adams – Absolute Radio
John Cranmer – Folded Wing
Chris Denman – Global Radio
Chris Elcombe – Somethin’ Else
Best Podcast/Online Producer
Gill Davies – GDP
Christopher Fitch – Freelance
Matt Hill – Freelance
Sue Nelson – Boffin Media
Mark Newman – BBC
Best Multi-Platform Creator
Kate Cocker – Wise Buddah
Will Gilgrass – Somethin’ Else
Owen Hopkin – Classic FM
Jade Hutchinson – Wise Buddah
Nishil Solanki – TBI Media
Best Drama/Readings Producer
John Dryden – Goldhawk Productions
Jonathan Haw – Siren FM
Rhys Phillips – Radio Cardiff
Boz Temple-Morris – Holy Mountain
Joby Waldman – Somethin’ Else
Best Newcomer
Laurence Bowen – Feelgood Fiction Ltd
Alistair Cockburn – Classic FM
Tom Parry – TBI Media
Jade Scott – Sue Clark Productions
Isabel Sutton – Just Radio Ltd
Best Creative
Fari Bradley – Resonance FM
Alistair Cockburn – Classic FM
Phil Critchlow – TBI Media
Nathan Freeman – BBC Radio 6 Music
Dan Riedo – Xfm
Best Sound Designer
Steve Bond – Goldhawk Productions
Matt Katz – Top Dog Productions Ltd
Mark Pittam – TBI Media
Matt Thompson – Rockethouse Productions Ltd
Eloise Whitmore – Somethin’ Else
Indie of the Year
Loftus Media
PRA Productions
Rockethouse Productions Ltd
USP Content
Whistledown Productions
Production Hero Award
Kate Cooper-Owen – Somethin’ Else
James Curran – Absolute Radio
Darby Dorras – Somethin’ Else
Gaynor Marshall – Metro Radio/TFM
Chad McKenzie – TBI Media
