Media Music Now Conversations

Valerie Bundy has spent nearly 30 years working as a theatre actor, before quietly building a second career writing, directing and producing her own short films on next to no budget. In this episode, Val talks honestly about breaking in without drama school on her CV, the years of touring theatre that followed, and the confidence it eventually took to call herself a writer. In this episode: The la...

Lyndon Saunders spent seventeen years working across radio and television before he ever stepped into a lecture hall. He started at a small independent production company in his early twenties, the best possible training ground, and went on to high-profile documentary work and major entertainment television. In this conversation, Lyndon talks honestly about that career and why he eventually chose...

Ben Harris-Hayes has worked across pretty much every corner of the music industry. Bands, touring, session work, record labels, writing for other artists, composing for film and TV, and now a full-time role in games audio alongside a busy freelance life. He didn't follow a straight path to get there. He followed whatever was in front of him and figured it out along the way. In this conversation, B...

Greg spent ten years managing telecoms teams, working his way up, doing what was expected, and feeling dead inside for most of it. Then in the same week, he was made redundant and had his shoulder broken, and he called it the best week of his life. That week gave him the time, the push, and the redundancy payout to do something about it. He paid his share of the mortgage up front for a year, found...

Jack Hughes co-founded Northern Film Orchestra at 25, not because he had a grand plan, but because he organised one string quartet session and enjoyed the logistics more than the recording. That thread wherever it went. That included getting made redundant from both his jobs the moment Covid hit, which turned out to give him exactly the time he needed to build the business properly. In this conver...