I specialise in environmental and humanitarian reporting and have presented BBC radio documentaries on subjects ranging from shamanism, snow leopards and the Black Mountains, to community conservation in the Northeast Indian state of Nagaland and the rise of vehicle dwellers in the UK. I’ve also filed stories from Myanmar, Georgia, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, India and Laos for Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent. Several of these pieces have been chosen for Radio 4’s Pick of the Week. Broadcasting fits in with my love of lo-fi solo travel - no cameras or TV crews; just me and my trusty microphone, chatting to people about their lives, loves, fears and dreams.

As with my writing, I’m interested in stories about conservation, Indigenous Rights, social justice and threatened people and places. I’m looking for those tales at the edges of things, for the gaps in our knowledge, for the places we don’t often hear stories from.

My most recent projects have been about The Caspian Sea, Brian Eno, shamanism in Northeast India, and Laos: 50 years after the Vietnam War. New Nomads, part of BBC Radio 4 and 5 Live’s 2023 Rental Health season, was a Guardian, Telegraph, Radio Times, TV Times and Sunday Times pick of the week. It was also chosen for Radio 4’s Pick of the Week. Future Shaman was one of BBC World Services most downloaded programmes of the week, and was featured on Pick of the World. Laos: 50 years after the Vietnam War was also featured on Radio 4’s Pick of the Week, and In the Studio with Brian Eno was a Sunday Times, Radio Times and Daily Mail pick of the week.

A selection of my broadcasts are linked below, and all of them are available to listen to on BBC Sounds.

If you’d like to contact me about presenting a radio documentary, or have an audio idea you’d like to discuss, then please do get in touch.

‘Thoughtful and thought provoking’. The Sunday Times