VENT is an award winning podcasting collaboration between VICE UK and Brent 2020, London Borough of culture. Across 1 year, 2 streams, and just under 100 podcasts in total, VENT saw VICE handing over the megaphone of its global platform to the local young people of a single London borough, who tell the stories they […]
A couple times I’ve been interviewed about the work I make. The most recent one is for the BBC’s Podcastology: In 2021 I was interviewed by the amazing Phoebe and Redzi for their podcast Telling Stories! You can listen below: Telling Stories also featured my Sound Hug challenge at the end of Sarah Cuddon’s episode: […]
This was a very dreamy job. I got to (virtually) hang out with Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, producing a conversation between them for the physical release of their new album: CARNAGE. I am a huge fan of Nick and Warren. They were both very funny and very nice to me, and it was a […]
Listen to Unchained. Two government reports over the last 12 years have definitively concluded that short term custodial sentences for women aren’t working, but the number of women serving them in the UK is rising. I produced this documentary with my incredible friend, Brenda Birungi – AKA Poet Lady Unchained. We interviewed four women with […]
From 6pm 13.06.20 to 6pm 14.06.20 I spent 24 hrs with my pal and collaborator Arlie Adlington racing to make 4 mins of radio for KCRW‘s Radio Race. The theme was time-warp and we decided to spend the night cycling round London searching for our future selves, and thinking about what being queer means for […]
JESSE LAWSON