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Meet The Audio Lab Alumni

Past alumni share why they’re excited about 成人快手 Sounds Audio Lab and why you should apply!

Tommy Dixon

Before the programme I was a graduate working in mechanical engineering. Whilst working, I was creating podcasts independently and involved with Roundhouse Transmission. A colleague let me know about Sounds Audio Lab and I applied. I found the programme valuable, as I learnt new skills and gained additional resources to do something in audio that I had not done before. Which was then published as a podcast on 成人快手 Sounds.

As a result of the programme, I got contracted job in audio, won an ARIA Award for my Sounds Audio Lab podcast, 'Colouring in Britain'. I am now a content producer on Outlook a radio programme on the 成人快手 World Service. I also recently worked with the 成人快手 Audio podcast team as a producer on Music Uncovered: The UK Garage Story.

Up next, is World Domination! I would love to continue to keep making programmes, podcasts and content that I am very passionate about, content that informs people about the world and gives perspectives that are unfamiliar and super important for people to know. I want to keep championing voices, communities and movements that are under represented

Adam Zmith

Before the programme, I had been a journalist then a social media editor for around 10 years. I'd made my own podcasts independently, then with collaborators. I was starting a production company, Aunt Nell. I applied to get a commission for a project I wanted to make.

Sounds Audio Lab, gave me the freedom to make the thing I knew I could. It gave me confidence to know I can experiment with forms and make good music. It gave me a 成人快手 credit which is powerful. It also gave me the strength needed to explain my ideas, to different collaborators and partners, to persuade people to work with me.

I am now making documentary podcast series with Aunt Nell (and writing books and theatre). Aunt Nell made Sing it Pink (in partnership with the Pink Singers) and The Quilt (in partnership with Queer Britain). Separately I co-produced Press Play Turn On for Audible/Whistledown, which won Podcast of the Year and Best Sex and Relationships Podcast (gold) at the BPA Awards this year. At Aunt Nell I'm co-developing two new series and trying to find the funding to make them happen. Like a lot of our other work, they are essential stories, grounded in archives, research, interviews, and tell untold histories about British life.

Seun Matiluko

I am a journalist and researcher, and a graduate in Law and History. Before audio I worked as a campaigner at Amnesty International. I applied to Sounds Audio Lab as I was interested in pursuing a career in broadcast journalism.

Once on the programme I enjoyed learning how to make a podcast, learning how to speak on mic, and coming across in a personable way. I was able to explore my fascination of hyphenated identities and the lives and legacies of people of African descent in Britain, by creating my series, ‘Seun’s Talking Drum: British AND West African.’

I am now a freelancer producer on a Radio 4 Documentary and looking for new opportunities. I am still figuring out how to make my way in this career. My work examines fashion, politics, pop culture, race and 20th century history in Britain and across the world.