I've been nominated under the Best Creative Documentary/Feature Maker category at the Audio Production Awards. From a shortlist of six, the winner will be announced at a Gala Award Night on November 23rd at BFI Southbank. Celebrating an exceptional understanding and use of sound to convey a story or emotion, Best Creative Documentary/Feature Maker looks for beautifully creative and challenging audio in the form of a podcast, documentary or short feature form.

Since the podcast launched at the start of the year, I have been on sound enginerring duties most mornings. The show has been extraordinarily popular with well over 500K listeners each day. The quality of the reporting and the range of stories never fails to amaze me. Some recent episodes I strongly recommend listening to include: A 16-year-old boy who sometimes wore skirts and makeup to school was killed in Iowa. Then the Justice Department sent a federal hate-crimes lawyer to aid in the prosecution. The trial has become part of the national debate over gender identity. When a waiter at an Iraqi restaurant in Portland, Ore., was attacked, the eatery’s owner, an Iraqi refugee, saw it as an