Battery Radio produces:
• radio features
• information documentaries,
• historical series
• comedy features
• audio guides & acoustic films
• special projects.
We welcome enquiries for commissioned work.
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Producer:
• Chris Brookes
Associate Producers:
• Kathryn Welbourn.
• Bill Brennan
• Doug Bird
• Ivan Morgan.
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Battery Radio
28 Outer Battery Rd,
St.John's,
Nfld,
Canada
A1A1A7
tel/fax 709-576-0359
UK contact:
173a The High Street, Berkhamsted,
Herts
HP4 5HB
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Producer Bios:
Chris Brookes' radio features have have been broadcast around the world.
He has directed and produced documentaries for Canadian network television, is a published author and playwright, and has taught radio storytelling at festivals and workshops across North America and Europe.
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Kathryn Welbourn's award-winning radio features have been broadcast on CBC Radio network and CBC Radio Nfld & Labrador.
She is also a writer, playwight, visual artist and founding editor of the Northeast Avalon Times newspaper.
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 Pianist, percussionist composer, arranger and producer, award-winning musician Bill Brennan can be heard on some 70 albums.
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Doug Bird and Ivan Morgan
are cartoonist and writer, respectively, for the Newfoundland INDEPENDENT newspaper.
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Our work has been honoured with the following awards:
• Gold Medal (Best editing) International Radio Festival of New York 2008 ( Invisible Cities) coproduction broadcast by CBC Canada
• Gold Medal, International Radio Festival of New York 2007 ( What We Might Have Been) broadcast by CBC Newfoundland & Labrador
• Gold Medal (Best editing) International Radio Festival of New York 2006 ( The Wire) coproduction broadcast by CBC Canada
• Prix Marulic 2006 (Running the Goat) broadcast by Radio Netherlands
• Peabody Award 2006 (The Wire) broadcast by CBC Canada
• Prix Italia 2005 (The Wire) broadcast by CBC Canada
•Third Coast Festival 2005 (A Map of the Sea) produced for Homelands Productions, broadcast by Living on Earth
• Third Coast Festival 2005 (The Wire) broadcast by CBC Canada
• Silver Medal, International Radio Festival of New York 2005 (Travelling Light) broadcast by Radio Netherlands
• United Nations Award, International Radio Festival of New York 2005 (Travelling Light)
• Prix Marulic 2005 (The Promised Land) broadcast by RTE Ireland
• Canadian Assosiation of Journalists award 2005 (The Man Who Sang Goodbye) broadcast by CBC Canada
• Atlantic Journalism Award 2005 (Not Fit For It) broadcast by CBC Newfoundland & Labrador
• Gabriel Award 2003 ( A Little Before ‘Tis Day) broadcast by CBC Canada
• Gold Medal, International Radio Festival of New York 2003 ( Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off) broadcast by Soundprint USA
• Gold Medal, International Radio Festival of New York 2003 ( A Little Before ‘Tis Day) broadcast by CBC)
• Prix Marulic 2002 Special Commendation for Documentary (Whispers in the Air/The Letter S) broadcast by CBC, ABC, RTE
• Atlantic Journalism Award 2002, best radio feature (The Great-Great-Greats) broadcast by Radio Netherlands, CHMR
• Bronze Medal, International Radio Festival of New York 2001 (Viking Millennium) broadcast by CBC Canada
• Gracie Allen Award 2000, American Women in Radio & TV (Cholera Diary) broadcast by Savvy Traveler USA
• PRIX EUROPA Special Commendation for Documentary 1999 (Mucho Corazon) broadcast by Radio Netherlands, This American Life, BBC, CBC, ABC, RTE.
• Atlantic Journalism Award 1999 (The Spanish Room) music feature broadcast by CBC Canada
• PRIX EUROPA Special Commendation for Documentary 1998 (Songs MyMother Taught Me) broadcast by CBC, RTE, ABC, RNZ)
• Gold Medal, International Radio Festival of New York 1998 (Songs MyMother Taught Me)
• Best Regional Special, Canadian National Radio Awards 1998 (Songs MyMother Taught Me)
• Gold Medal, International Radio Festival of New York 1997(Power of the Unemployed, co-produced historical feature, broadcast by CBC, Soundprint USA)
• Best Radio Program of the Year 1997 Canadian Assoc of Journalists (Power of he Unemployed) broadcast by CBC Canada
• Gabriel Award 1994, Best Information Program (On the Package, documentary feature, broadcast by ABC, RTE, APR, CBC, BBC)
• Best Regional Special, Canadian National Radio Awards 1994 (On the Package, broadcast by CBC)
• Best National Series, Canadian National Radio Awards 1994 (About Oscar, jazz biography, broadcast by CBC)
• Special Award for Excellence 1993, National Education Association (USA) (Reading the Media, educational documentary, broadcast by Soundprint USA )
• Best Audio Documentary 1993, Educational Writers of America (Reading the Media, broadcast by Soundprint USA)
• Silver Medal, International Radio Festival of New York 1991 (The Radio Rolled Me/2, documentary feature, broadcast by CBC)
• Armstrong Major Award, Best News Documentary 1990 (Ten Years After the Revolution, broadcast by Soundprint USA)
• Gold Medal, International Radio Festival of New York 1989 (Death at the Door, current affairs documentary on El Salvador broadcast by Soundprint USA)
• Grand Prize, International Radio Festival of New York 1989 (Death at the Door)
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