Hello! I’m an independent radio producer. My name is Connor Walsh and I’m based in London.

Coffeeflavouredtea.net features my audio – speech packages, audio art, and acoustic ecology; and my writing, on the theory and practice of radio, the joys of listening, and the technology too. Oh and I also do my part for AudioDocumentary.org, submitting some of the programmes that take my fancy.

My main interest is features – factual, curious, dramatic. I work mostly in English, with some Chinese.

I’ve worked at China Radio International, the BBC World Service, Radio New Zealand National & International, International Crisis Group, London Chinese Radio and SOAS OpenAir.

Grounded in BBC-news, yet a follower of the Radiolab school.

I’m available for human rights and creative package making, tape syncs, and whatever radio goodness you care to mention.

Contact me by email, or with a comment on the blog. And here’s my CV.

Here’s some recent audio:

Divine Rescue

Last modified on 2010-01-26 22:48:51 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

Here’s a demo item I’ve made, following on from the Dragons’ Den item below. This is a non-narrated version, with material for a reporter piece available. The cue would go something along the lines of this:

If you live in the city, you’ve probably done it yourself: walking down a street crossing over to avoid some rowdy drunks or drug addicts.

But some people try to make friends with them.

Every week a group of private individuals meets at a street bench in South London. They call themselves Divine Rescue, and this is a snapshot of what they do, on an icy Saturday morning, this winter.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:06 — 6.5MB)

Here’s a recent radio blog-post:

In The Dark

Last modified on 2010-01-27 13:46:58 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

Last night I listened to a radio documentary.

With maybe fifty other people.

Afterwards, the producer and editor of the documentary answered questions from Alan Hall and the audience. Pretty neat, huh?

No, not neat. Terrific.

The documentary was Mighty Mac, from RTÉ’s Documentary On One, with producer Michael O’Kane and editor Liam O’Brien

The event was called In The Dark. It will be hosting more listening events during the London International Documentary Festival, and I signed up to volunteer my help on the spot.

It attracted quite an audience of stars (even from across the Atlantic – apparently one half of the Kitchen Sisters was present), and I was certainly not the only Irish producer there. I mean, aside from the producer of the doc, of course. And did it go down differently between the Irish and non-Irish listeners? Yep. But okay I know Limerick (where the doc happens), so even over Irish listeners who don’t, it was going to resonate more with me.

The next event is due to feature someone from NRK, so no doubt that will play differently for Non-Scandinavians there that night too.

Anyway. Make a note: In The Dark. Great documentary events, in London.