	Peter Hoare Managing Director Peter Hoare spent fifteen years at the BBC as a manager and producer of both radio and television output. Over the last fourteen years he has built Pier Productions into a major supplier of drama and factual programming to BBC Network Radio and has established it Television and Education. Peter established the BBC South and East Network Radio Department which produced over five hundred hours of programmes a year for BBC Radios 2, 4 and 5 and attended the BBC’s Leadership Development Course. At this time he worked successfully alongside television colleagues to bring about bi-media initiatives where radio spin-offs were created from TIMEWATCH and regional documentaries. He won the Gold Sony Radio Award for HOPPING DOWN IN KENT in 1987 and the Gold Sony in 1997 for best Arts Programme for the BBC Radio 3 series PRIVATE VIEW.
	Mike Greenwood Director of Education Mike Greenwood is an award-winning programme maker and commissioning editor in Radio, TV and Online. He began his career as a producer and presenter in Local Radio before moving to BBC Network Radio, where he specialised in Arts, Science and Documentaries. He became Chief Producer in the BBC Radio Arts Unit, founding Editor of the long-running Radio 3 Arts strand Nightwaves and winner of the BP Arts Journalism Award. On moving to television, he worked on BBC2’s The Late Show, before becoming an Executive Producer and Commissioning Executive for BBC Education. He commissioned and exec-produced a wide range of factual programmes on TV and Radio including a number of popular history series. He also led many high-profile campaigns involving Radio, TV, Online and public events. Among these initiatives were BBC History 2000, Gene Stories and Student Choice, winner of 3 RTS Awards.
	Jane Ellison Radio Production Manager Jane started her career in various roles at the BBC before finding a happy home at Radio 4. She worked within the management office assisting the Network Manager and at times helping Commissioning Assistants and Schedules. She then moved to Presentation and undertook the role of Operations Assistant before joining Pier Productions 6 years ago. Jane is responsible for the production management of all of Pier’s factual and drama radio programmes.
	James Pearson Development Researcher James has worked in the independent television sector since graduating in 2004. He has worked on a rich variety of shows spanning a wide range of genres including I’m The Answer, The Paul O’Grady Show, Supernanny, The British Comedy Awards, It Started With Swap Shop, and The Politics Show South East. He has played a part in each of Pier’s television productions to date: When We Were Scouts, On The Ball: The Story of Sports Commentary and Penelope Keith And The Fast Lady, and has been on the development team for the past two years. His development credits include On The Ball for BBC 1.
	Karen Shipway Business Affairs Executive After a brief spell working in BBC Radio Drama looking after the Radio Drama Company, Karen moved to the BBC's Rights Departments working in both Copyright and Artist's Contracts. After leaving the BBC she worked across a variety of production genres in both television and radio for SelecTV plc, Hat Trick Productions and Talkbackthames. She now works as a consultant for both television and radio providing her services to a variety of independent producers.
	Stephen Lacey Finance Manager Stephen provides the Management Team with comprehensive support in assessing project financing, asset management and ongoing financial monitoring. An experienced, adaptable professional with a strong Banking background.
	Factual Producers Nick Patrick Nick has been Senior Producer of Pier Productions two flagship regular BBC Radio 4 strands Making History and Home Planet for the last eight years. He has also made a great many single documentaries particularly for the prestigious Archive Hour slot. He previously worked on The Tube for Channel 4, The Oxford Roadshow and The Russell Harty Show for BBC TV. He was also senior producer and creator of Bob Hatton Rattle and On the Level for BBC Radio Five. Angela Hind Angela has worked on a wide variety of programmes for BBC Radio including Bob and Pete – Across the Divide (a moving meeting between folk singers Bob Copper and Pete Seeger); Portrait in Black (a profile of writer Patrick Hamilton); Fold Here First – (how origami is shaping the world of engineering, design and mathematics); The Shanghai Sailors (an archive hour highlighting the search by children of mixed race for their fathers who disappeared after the Second World War); As Easy as ABC – Lynne Truss with a look at the way the alphabet has transformed out lives and The Transport Café – exploring a way of life that is fast disappearing. She has also been responsible for several prestigious sixty minute Archive Hours for Radio 4. As well as one-off documentaries, Angela was responsible for producing Pier Productions’ flagship science and technology series “Connect”. Toby Murcott Before joining the BBC Radio Science Unit Toby Murcott trained as a biochemist, he has since produced and presented programmes across all BBC networks and rose to become Science Correspondent for BBC World Service Radio. Toby has written for a variety of publications; consulted for TV companies; spoken at numerous public meetings; chaired debates; taught scientists about working with the media and journalists about working with scientists. Toby’s first book “The Whole Story – Alternative Medicine on Trial?” was published in 2005 to glowing reviews from all sides of the complementary medicine debate. Today he writes regularly for The Times; makes radio programmes for the BBC with Pier Productions and lectures on an MSc in Science Communication at the University of Glamorgan. Eve Streeter Eve’s recent BBC Radio 4 production credits include Enter the Workhouse (Jan 08 05); Series producer Questions, Questions (Series 4, 5 and 6); My Life as a Dalek; and Songlines. Wayne Imms For Pier Productions, Wayne Imms has produced the Radio 2 programmes Anne Dudley – Close to the Edit (a series profiling the pop arranger and Oscar-winning composer) and Star Trek – Where No-one Has Gone Before (marking 40 years of the science fiction adventure). He has met and interviewed many famous figures, such as Quentin Tarantino, Chrissie Hynde, Stephen Fry, The Pet Shop Boys and Nick Park. Wayne is the organiser of The SPACE (Southern Performance and Creative Energies) Brighton’s popular media and arts networking event. www.myspace.com/thespaceuk
	Radio Drama Producers David Blount David Blount is an award-winning director of plays and readings with over 20 years programme-making experience. BBC broadcast credits include: full-cast dramatisations of The Wind in the Willows, The Box of Delights, A Town Like Alice, Scenes from Provincial Life; and the last five John le Carré titles, read by the author. Spoken word projects include Hemingway’s Chair (written & read by Michael Palin); and for BBC Worldwide, The Nation’s Favourite Poems of Celebration and Peter Ackroyd’s reading of Dickens: Public Life & Private Passion. David’s other non-broadcast work includes audio products for Historic Royal Palaces, and the Open University. He teaches at both LAMDA and the East 15 School of Acting. Marina Caldarone Marina has been directing Radio Drama since 2000 after 20 years as a theatre director. Credits include an adaptation of the novel My Career Goes Bung (Woman's Hour Series), Byron's Fancy and The Gospel According to Mary Magdalene (Radio 3) and is under commission for a Radio 4 Classic Serial - an adaptation of Passing by Nella Larsen. She directed the Drama Documentary The London Poor starring Timothy West for the BBC World Service and the series A Room of Her Own for the Woman’s Hour Drama slot. Celia de Wolff Celia de Wolff has produced radio drama both as a member of staff and as a freelance producer for the past 11 years. Her work for Radio 4 includes: The Adventures of Claudine by Colette, dramatised by John Peacock; What Maisie Knew by Henry James, dramatised by Michael Bakewell; Lucia in London and Queen Lucia by E.F.Benson, dramatised for radio by Ned Sherrin; I am David by Anne Holm dramatised for radio by John Peacock. More recently she has directed The Man by Raymond Briggs (dramatised by the author); and a series for the Afternoon Reading, Brighton Caricatures including stories by John Peacock, Roy Apps, and Carole Hayman. Her production Little White Bird by J.M. Barrie (adapted by John Peacock) was broadcast on Christmas Day 2004. Celia has also produced a large proportion of the Children’s audio books for Cover to Cover Cassettes including her award-winning recordings of the Harry Potter books read by Stephen Fry. Paul Dodgson Paul Dodgson is a writer, composer and radio producer who specialises in radio drama. Current and recent directing credits for Pier Productions include Ivan and the Dogs, Giselle and The Nutcracker for BBC Radio 4. Paul’s own writing includes Eastenders and Monsters We Met for BBC TV and Betjeman’s Women and The Lives and Loves of Lorenzo Da Ponte for Radio 4. Paul’s musical compositions have been performed on BBC Radio 3 and at theatres around the country. Paul has been freelance for the last five years after a fifteen year career as a staff producer in the BBC making programmes in all genres for the five national networks and the World Service. Joanna Green As a member of the BBC radio drama department, Joanna began producing readings under the watchful eye of Duncan Minshull. Since freelancing, her credits include Frederick Forsyth’s ‘The Day of The Jackal’ read by Derek Jacobi and Ian Fleming’s ‘James Bond Short Stories’ read by Damian Lewis, both for BBC Radio 2; a selection of A E Coppard’s short stories read by Anton Lesser, John Banville’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel ‘The Sea’ read by Jim Norton, Edna Healey’s memoir ‘Part of the Pattern’ read by Sarah Badel and William Dalrymple’s ‘The Last Mughal’ read by Robert Bathurst, all for BBC Radio 4. Martin Jenkins At the National Union of Student’s Drama Festival, held in conjunction with The Sunday Times, Martin won best actor award in 1962 and best director award in 1963. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company as an actor and assistant director, working with Peter Brook, Peter Hall and Clifford Williams. Founding Artistic Director of The Everyman Theatre, Liverpool (1964). Joined the BBC Radio Drama Department in 1966, becoming Chief Producer Drama (Radio). Whilst at the BBC, he directed hundreds of plays (including award-winning productions) and worked with many leading writers and actors both here and abroad. He also co-directed major drama-documentaries including The Nuremberg Trial and The Chicago Conspiracy Trial. During the 70s and 80s he conducted a number of interviews with amongst others – Peggy Ashcroft, John Gieldgud and Ralph Richardson. In recent years, he has continued to work in the Independent sector, most notably for Pier Productions with a galaxy of writers and actors including Roger Allam, Dora Bryan, Bernard Cribbins, Stephen Lowe, Michael Maloney, David Pownall, Paul Scofield and Stephen Wyatt. In 2006, he was awarded an Honorary Degree by Liverpool University in recognition of his early work with The Everyman. Jane Morgan Jane Morgan's most famous production for radio is Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, which is a radio classic and still a best seller on CD and cassette, but she also directed a number of classic serials, including six of Charles Dickens's novels, which have been highly acclaimed. She has also directed single plays written for radio by Simon Gray, Christopher Fry and Shelagh Delaney and worked with Neville Smith, Douglas Livingstone on award winning productions, and on first plays by Bill Lyons, Christopher Douglas, Kevin Elyot and Tony Ramsay amongst others. She has directed stage plays such as Richard III, with Ian Holm, Uncle Vanya with Robert Stephens and The Cocktail Party by TS Eliot. John Tydeman John Tydeman is the former Head of BBC Radio Drama until 1994 and thereafter a freelance director of plays for Pier and the BBC and for commercial audio CD’s and cassettes. He has worked with most of Britain’s great actors and writers over the last forty years and gave early encouragement to writers Joe Orton, Tom Stoppard and Sue Townsend amongst others. He has directed for Television and for the regional and West End Theatre as well as having directed radio plays in Poland, Canada, USA, Hungary, Israel and Australia. Amongst other Awards he has won the Prix Italia, the Prix Futura (twice), several Sony’s, the Broadcasting Press Guild Award for the most outstanding programme on radio in 1983. In 1994 he was given the Sony Special Award for his work and in 2004 was made an OBE by the Queen for his services to Sound Drama. Richard Wortley Richard Wortley, apart from writing a handful of documentary books, has devoted his career to drama on the radio directing over 3000 plays. Amongst several prize-winners, he won Europe's most prestigious radio award, the Prix Italia, for Howard Barker's Scenes from an Execution with Glenda Jackson. He has directed fourteen plays and adaptations by Peter Tegel.