Over the last six years Andy has produced features, clips, and audio packages for BBC Local Radio in Yorkshire and for BBC Radio 4.
He has a warm intelligent voice with gravitas, depth and energy.
He is a capable of a range of accents and styles and is available for voice-overs for film TV and freelance radio work.
He is also an experienced narrator and has recently undertaken the voice over for a Barnsley health film project.
‘Click’ on the links below to hear clips of Andy’s voice and reporting style
Conservation Therapy for Drug Addicts in Derbyshire
Andy discovers how an innovative scheme run by Pheonix Futures for Drug addicts is providing helpful therapy through conservation work in the Derbyshire Dales.
Churches Drugs Project
Andy visits a Church run project for homeless drug & alcohol addicts to see how they are being helped
Andy takes a look at recycling
Andy visits Doncaster to look at efforts to reduce the amount of waste going into landfill through community recycling.
Little Pear Tree Fields
Andy reporting at the opening of Sheffield’s newest and smallest nature reserve.
SHILOH
Andy reporting on the work of the ‘SHILOH’ project food shelter for the homeless in Rotherham.
Specials
Andy out on the beat in Derbyshire reporting on the work of the police ‘Specials’.
Carers
Andy’s package featuring the work of carers support in Sheffield.
SHINE
Interview featuring the work of the SHINE Project in Sheffield.
Breathing Places
This piece features a local group in Derbyshire.
Goats on Sheffield’s Allotments
This amusing package produced by Andy for the breakfast show on BBC Radio Sheffield, tells the tale of how one local allotment society has resorted to enticing new allotment holders by offering the use of a goat to help trim down the undergrowth on unuded allotments. It’s a novel way of getting people to take up allotments as a lifestyle and a way of ‘growing your own’ produce’.
See if you can detect a certain Wallace & Gromit’ element in the voice of one of the contributors. It made us all laugh here!
Tackling Bullying & Conflict in Sheffield Schools
This is a piece which Andy produced for the BBC Radio Sheffield Breakfast Show to illustrate how bullying and conflict is being tackled in Sheffield Schools as part of the work of CRESST (Conflict Resolution Education in Sheffield Schools) It’s led by the wonderful Cheryl Smart and Andy went along to a special assembly at Arbourthorne School in Sheffield to meet some young Peer Mediators who help to prevent conflict among their young peers. They are trained by CRESST to recognize, understand and deal with conflict. Andy spoke to 11 year olds Madison Hunter and Georgie Mitchell who are two of the mediators. He also recorded some of the young mediators performing a role play to illustrate some of the different scenarios from which conflict might arise at school. It was amazing. 700 of them have now been trained to do this !!
Andy takes a visit to the Elsecar Heritage Steam Railway, in Barnsley, South Yorkshire where he meets volunteers and staff who are battling to keep the remarkable line alive. The National lottery have refused to fund improvements or grant aid the project despite it being a marvellous visitor attraction based near to, but separate from the Elsecar Heritage Centre. Take a real steam ride abour the engine the ‘Mardy Monster’ as Andy chats to local volunteer Harry Stenton.