Field Recordings Creators & Guests

Veronica Simmonds is an audio producer. Currently, she is a Senior Producer of Podcasts for the CBC.Simmonds began her career as an independent audio artist, and she created an experimental radio show called "Braidio." She went on to produce several radio documentaries, which have aired on the CBC, ABC, and BBC.

Eleanor McDowall is a director at Falling Tree Productions and the founder of Radio Atlas and Field Recordings.

Producer of Mandela: The Lost Tapes (Audible) and Unsealed: Tylenol Murders (Chicago Tribune). Professor at NYU School of Journalism and Hunter College.

Martin Austwick is an independent producer, host, writer and composer who co-created Song by Song and Neutrinowatch and is most known for his work on Answer Me This!, The Allusionist, Maddie's Sound Explorers, and his music, writing and production for a wide range of podcasts and live podcast shows.

Rob Porter is a software engineer and naturalist in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Freelance Audio Producer, Editor and teacher

Suchandrika Chakrabarti is a comedian, writer, and podcaster from London. She created and hosted the podcasts Black Mirror Cracked (2017) and Freelance Pod (2018). She is now a co-host of comedy criticism podcast But Is It Funny? with Brian Logan and Jamal Khadar, as well as a regular panellist on multi-award-winning podcast The Week Unwrapped. Suchandrika is also a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, and a judge for the Podcasts category of The Webby Awards 2020 (aka "the internet's highest honour").

Iain Chambers is a composer, producer, and performer. His music often deploys field recordings and location sounds as musical material. He launched the independent record label Persistence of Sound, and is a founding member of Langham Research Centre, an electronic music ensemble using obsolete Cold War era technology to create new music.Chambers was a member of the duo Bow Mods, which released one album and two EPs. He has produced programmes at BBC Radio 3.

Fil Corbitt is a freelance audio producer and musician. They are the host and creator of the The Wind. Corbitt's work has appeared on 99% Invisible, NPR, CBC, 20khz, PRX Remix and Outside Magazine.

Luke Quinton is a writer and audio producer. His documentaries have appeared on the podcasts "99% Invisible" and "Snap Judgement," and on radio for the BBC, CBC and NPR. He's written on architecture and the arts for Dwell, Maclean's, the Globe and Mail, Gramophone and Eater.