Programme Leader for MA Radio, Audio and Podcasting
I’m an award-winning Radio Producer with over 30 years of production experience making programmes for BBC radio including Radio 2, Radio 3, Radio 4, Radio 4 Extra and Radio 5 Live. My programmes range from DJ shows to quizzes, from live concerts to radio dramas, and from documentary series to experimental features. I have worked as a sound recordist and mixer in TV and radio, a reporter, producer and executive producer for BBC local and network radio and was an instructor in the BBC’s former Radio Training Unit.
After leaving the BBC, I founded my own independent radio production company Soundscape Productions which is now 21 years old and has made over a hundred programmes for the BBC and other broadcasters. We are continually being commissioned to produce programmes and I have also pitched students’ ideas which have resulted in them being commissioned to make their documentaries for BBC Radio 4.
I joined the University as a part-time member of staff in 2002 so I could continue to produce radio programmes alongside my teaching. For the past eight years, I have been Programme Leader on MA Radio, Audio and Podcasting which is firmly embedded in professional practice through Spark and our links with broadcasters.
I am a board member of RIG (Radio Independents Group) the trade body that looks after the interests of independent producers and a Trustee of the Charles Parker Archive Trust. For the past eight years, I have organised the annual celebration of the radio feature – past, present and future, The Charles Parker Day, and coordinated the annual Charles Parker Prize for the Best Student Radio Feature which is presented at the conference.
Teaching and supervision
I am Programme Leader for MA Radio, Audio and Podcasting and teach documentary, feature, and radio drama production at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
I am module leader for:
- MAC358 Radio Drama
- MAC359 Radio Documentary and Feature Production
- RADM02 Radio Programme Making
- RADM04 Advanced Radio and Audio Production
Research interests for potential research students
- My research interests lie in the development of creative production techniques in feature and radio drama production – aspects of which are reflected in my own BBC commissions.
Publications
Audio
Cartwright, Andy (2019) Charles Parker: Radio Pioneer. [Audio]
Cartwright, Andy (2018) A Symphony of Psalms. [Audio]
Street, Sean, Lane, Jenny and Cartwright, Andy (2017) The Shape of Things That Came. [Audio]
Cartwright, Andy (2015) Bringing Holly from the Bongs. [Audio]
Other
Cartwright, Andy (2019) Documenting Sound Archives through Creative Features [Research portfolio]. BBC radio broadcasts.
- Radio Documentary and Feature Production
- Radio Drama
- Experimental Radio/Sound Art
- Sound Design
- Research and Compliance
- Professional Radio Practice
Productions/Publications
As Producer:
- A Symphony of Psalms – BBC Radio 3 – TX 01/04/18 (in Production)
- The Charles Parker Prize 2017 – 1x60’ BBC Radio 4 Extra TX 10/06/17
- The Shape of Things That Came -1 x 60’ BBC Radio 4 TX 27/10/17
- Bringing Holly from the Bongs – 1x30’ BBC Radio 4 Extra TX 25/12/15
- Time Travel – the Politics of Time -1 x 60’ BBC Radio 4 TX 27/10/12
- Mysteries From the Pas' -1 x 30’ BBC Radio 4 TX 06/08/12
- The Exile Returned -1 x 43’ BBC Radio 3 TX 30/06/12
- Saying Goodbye Again and Again -1 x 20’ BBC Radio 3 TX 30/06/12
- Home Recorded Voices – 1 x 60’ BBC Radio 4 TX 20/12/08
- Drama on 3: Scandinavian Dreams - 1 x 90' BBC Radio 3 TX 21/10/07
- Final Curtain - 1 x 30' BBC Radio 4 TX 03/05/07
- The CIA and the Avant-Garde? - 1 x 30' BBC Radio 4 TX 26/09/06
- Then-Now - 1 x 30' BBC Radio 4 TX 09/01/06
- Voyages - 1 x 30' BBC Radio 4 TX 15/08/05
- John Meade Falkner's Bag of Paradoxes - 1 x 30' BBC Radio 4 TX 11/05/05
- A Shoddy Business - 1 x 60' BBC Radio 4 TX 13/11/04
- Oh No It's Not! Oh Yes It Is!! - 5 x 15' BBC Radio 4 TX 29/12/03-02/01/04
- Excluded - 1 x 30' BBC Radio 4 TX 13/03/03
- Going the Rounds - 1 x 30' BBC Radio 4 TX 18/12/03
- Stories in Light and Sound -1 x 30' BBC Radio 4 TX 13/12/02
- The Box - 5 x 15' - BBC Radio 4 TX June-July 2002
- The First Song - 1 x 30' BBC Radio 4 TX 11/04/02
- On the Trail of Swallows and Amazons - 5 x 15' BBC Radio 4 TX 01-05/04/02
As Executive Producer:
- Drawing in the Dark – BBC Radio 4– TX tbc (in Production)
- A Journey Through English – 1x30’ BBC Radio 4 – TX 03/09/16
- Stig at 50 – 1x30’ BBC Radio 4 TX 25/12/13
- Houses that Fall into the Sea 1 x 30 BBC Radio 3 TX 16/06/12
- Cow Dust Time 1 x 30 BBC Radio 3 TX 14/01/12
- Nightingales and Roses – 1 x 23’ BBC World Service TX 04/06/10
- The Two Minutes Silence 1 x 15’ BBC Radio 4 TX 12/06/09
- Meet the Patels -1 x 30’ BBC Radio 4
- Music from the Dark - 1 x 45' BBC Radio 3 TX 29/11/08
- Planning for Destruction: The D-Villages of County Durham - 1 x 30' BBC
- Radio 4 TX 08/05/08
- Opened Ground - 1 x 15' BBC Radio 4 TX 10/12/06
- The Lying Game - 1 x 30' BBC Radio 4 TX 25/11/06
- The Life of the Secret Gardener - 1 x 30' BBC Radio 4 TX 06/04/06
- Voices at the Door - 1 x 30' BBC Radio 4 TX 24/12/05
- The British on Top of the World - 1 x 60' BBC Radio 4 TX 24/08/05
- Reading Between the Lines - 1 x 30' BBC Radio TX 04/11/04
- Trimming Pablo 1 x 30 BBC Radio 3 TX 03/07/04
- Turning the Tide - 1 x 30' BBC Radio 4 TX 07/06/04
- It's My Story - Getting the Trip - 1 x 30' BBC Radio 4 TX 19/01/04
- The Pub Carols - 1 x 30' BBC Radio 4 TX 25/12/02
Conference and workshops:
- Rediscovering the Imagination: A Practical Exploration into Teaching Audio Drama. (2014) Audio Drama Seminar – Histories, Aesthetics, Practices, University of Copenhagen, 19-20 August 2014.
- Radio is Dead: Long Live Radio (2013) Radio – The Resilient Medium Conference, University of Sunderland, London, September 11-13.
- The Fight Game: the Radio Ballad fights back. (2013) Charles Parker Day, University of Salford, 22 March 2013.
- Editing the Radio Ballads. (2008) Charles Parker Day, Bournemouth University, 4 April 2008.
- Then-Now: turning a single minute into half an hour! (2007) Charles Parker Day, Bournemouth University, 7 April 2006.
