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:

Endangered Language – Kagulu

Last modified on 2010-03-02 13:34:28 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

My first item for SOAS Open Air is now online – here.

The blurb goes like this:

SOAS researcher Malin Petzell introduces Kagulu, a language in Tanzania that is being squeezed by the state-promotion of Swahili. Hear the musicality and the music, along with a taste of Malin’s fieldwork in Tanzania.

Comments welcome!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:41 — 8.0MB)

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.