Maud Hand

Maud’s hallmark is producing and developing new talent in broadcast media & the creative industries

Maud Hand is a multi-media producer, trainer and writer with over 18 years experience in production, project management and rich media content for the BBC, Channel 4 and RTÉ. Her radio drama production expertise was honed during a BBC production traineeship (1995 – 1998), part of which was working in Radio Drama with new writers and producers Claire Grove and Jeremy Mortimer on productions including a location recording of Graham Swift’s Last Orders & Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres. Prior to that she commissioned Dalston Days, a daily radio soap on Brazen Radio, an RSL station she created in London in Spring 1994.

She has managed & produced The Play’s The Thing, an online radio drama repository for Channel 4 since its inception in January 2006 to augment the Channel 4 Television Series. She was the founding editor of the Northern Ireland hub of Channel 4’s IDEASFACTORY, managing its re-brand to 4Talent Northern Ireland, a flagship interactive talent initiative for the broadcast media industries. (Jan 2004 – Jan 2007). She managed the workshop delivery of Channel 4’s ORIGINATION:INSITE, an innovative cultural website project in partnership with national museums around England, commissioned by Culture Online, DCMS and nominated for a BIMA award. She originated & produced Turner Round, a four part series on the Turner Prize Nominees 2006, and Channel 4 Radio’s first arts series.

Maud makes location driven documentaries for BBC Network Radio and the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, supplying broadcasters RTÉ, Newstalk & various Irish commercial radio stations. Current productions include Pure Heart, the story of Maura Soshin O’Halloran, the Irish Buddhist saint; To Hell or Barbados, the story of the Irish Red Legs enslaved on Bajan sugar plantations.

She is a production mentor and consultant for Ireland’s commercial radio sector, developing its independent radio production sector through her voluntary PR role on the executive of AIRPI (The Association of Independent Radio Producers of Ireland).

Maud has devised & edited websites for BBC including World on Your Street. She has authored training manuals in radio production for The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland and is a visiting lecturer in radio practice and web journalism at The University of Westminster, South Bank University, the National University of Ireland’s John Huston School of Film & Digital Media, the University of Ulster & the University of Limerick. She is a consultant course designer and trainer for the London College of Communication, University of the Arts.

Maud’s AIRPI profile: http://www.radioproducers.ie/view_profile.php?id=%2043
Turner Round: http://www.channel4radio.com/show/index.php?Id=433
4Talent Northern Ireland: http://www.channel4.com/4talent/ireland/
Belfast Masterclass Series 2006: http://www.channel4.com/4talent/feature.jsp?id=346
Origination: Insite: www.channel4.com/insite
World On Your Street: www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/world/onyourstreet

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