helen@HQvoice.com | @HQvoice | @soundliness

Creative Audio Production

PODCAST PRODUCER

I currently produce the Iceworld podcast for The British Antarctic Survey via Boffin Media, and for Fresh Air Production, Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations and post-production on The English Heritage podcast.

I’ve edited the award winning podcast series The Big Steal also from Fresh Air Production, and audio content for Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place app.

As a podcast producer for Comedy Central I made Robin Ince’s Show & Tell and Utter Shambles – probably one of the UK’s first branded podcasts – in 2006.

Under my owner banner, Soundliness, I produced part-chat/part-audio drama podcast series, Hot Flashes: The Menopause Monologues

VOICEOVER

I’ve been voicing professionally since 1997 when I started in radio as a traffic reporter. Since then I’ve voiced everything from commercials to continuity, though I’m probably best known for the viral video, Porn Sex vs Real Sex: The Differenc es Explained with Food which has had nearly 20 million views – so far! It’s funny, it’s informative and it’s definitely not suitable for work.

I’ve recorded for dozens of clients including high-end car manufacturers and software companies. To hear work from some of these, visit the DEMOS page.

HOME RECORDING STUDIO

I’m a freelance audio and podcast producer working from my purpose-built professional recording studio in Chelmsford, within easy reach of London.

I’m also available for location recording in other suitable venues. Equipped with portable recorders, a mix of mics (lav and shotgun) I can record up to four people for a podcast, or collect audio for vox pops, interviews, etc.

STUDIO SPECS

Source Connect (Standard and Now)

Cleanfeed

Purpose-built VOICEOVER BOOTH

Neumann TLM 193/U87, SENNHEISER MKH416

Fireface UCX interface

PORTABLE KIT

H6 / H4N Zoom Recorder

SENNHEISER MKH416

Rode Lav mics x 3

RODE WIRELESS LAV MICS x 2

AUDIO DRAMA and AUDIO FICTION

Starting with Eleanor of Aquitaine: Mother of the Pride in association with Tara Arts in 2018, I’ve co-produced docudrama The Space Race, the podcast drama The Effect (both for Audible), a radio soap series Greenborne (B7 Media), Venna’s Planet (AUK); one-off legal drama Barred and Mahabharata Now (BBC Radio 4), with Episodes 8 and 9 in production and scheduled for broadcast in Summer 2025.

Out now is Theatre of The Damned, a B7 Media co-production with Metal Rabbit Productions available from Audioteria and Bandcamp.

AUDIO PROMOS / TRAILS PRODUCER

I’ve worked as one of BBC Creative’s freelance radio producers for more than a decade. I produced high profile national trails for Gentleman Jack, Poldark, The Great British Bake Off and The Green Planet, plus Promax award-nominated and winning promos for The Apprentice and the BBC’s Make a Difference campaign. Click here for examples.

My trail for Audible UK’s The Effect won Bronze at the Promax North America Awards 2022, up against trails from CNN, Disney+ and Hulu.