2012
Jon Ronson On...Series 7
BBC Radio 4, Thursday 4th April 2012 for 5 weeks, 11.00pm
Produced for Unique by Laura Parfitt and Simon Jacobs
The seventh installment in this long-running series includes the themes 'Pride', 'Undeserved Rewards' and 'Being Normal'. To listen to more 'Jon Ronson On...' programmes please visit: www.jonronson.com
Follow-Up Albums - Dexys Midnight Runners, Fleetwood Mac & Suede
BBC Radio 4, Thursday 12th May 2012 for 3 weeks, 11.30am
Produced by Laura Parfitt
Music critic Pete Paphides tells the story behind three 'follow-up' albums - from Dexys Midnight Runners, Fleetwood Mac and Suede - with tales of musical pressure, creative differences, personal politics and mixed results.
Poems from the Pennines
BBC Radio 4, Saturday 21st July 2012, 11.30pm
Produced by Laura Parfitt
Poet Simon Armitage takes us on a journey round the Stanza Stones - new poems on a theme of water carved into the Pennine rocks.
Fathers' Daughters
BBC Radio 4, Friday 2nd November 2012, 11.00am
Produced by Laura Parfitt
Radio 1's Nihal explores father-daughter relationships in Britain's South Asian communities and investigates the issues that arise from cultural expectations.
The Global Gap: Mexico
BBC Radio 4, Monday 3rd December 2012 for 5 days, 1.45pm
Produced for Juniper by Laura Parfitt
The Global Gap is a series of five programmes where two people who do the same job, one from the UK and one from Mexico, have a thought-provoking conversation to compare and contrast their working lives and the issues that arise in their jobs.
Rebuilding the LSO
BBC Radio 4, Tuesday 4th December 2012, 11.30am
Produced by Philippa Goodrich
Matthew Bannister tells the story of how London's oldest self-governing orchestra, the LSO, made a spectacular recovery from near financial collapse in the early 1980s.
The Global Gap: Turkey
BBC Radio 4, Monday 10th December 2012 for 5 days, 1.45pm
Produced for Juniper by Laura Parfitt
The Global Gap is a series of five programmes where two people who do the same job, one from the UK and one from Turkey, have a thought-provoking conversation to compare and contrast their working lives and the issues that arise in their jobs.