FREELANCE
In addition to working with community radio, Ben also has extensive experience doing freelance work as a lead producer, editor, and tape-syncer. Below is a variety of projects ranging from one-offs gigs to sustained productions and everything in between.
ONE-OFFS
Britain's birds of prey seem to be bouncing back. Environmental journalist Tom Heap and physicist Helen Czerski explore the reasons and celebrate the lives of our top avian predators.
Beak and Talon
When shoolteacher John Hunter invented The World Peace Game as a way to teach messy geopolitical realities, he never could have anticipated what his students ended up teaching him— or that the game would bring him face-to-face with the heights of real-world power.
The World Peace Game
Kate Douglass is a world-class swimmer and data scientist who’s used mathematical modeling to help make her stroke more efficient. She and Steve talk about why the Olympics were underwhelming, how she won gold, and why she won’t be upset to say goodbye to the pool.
Using Data to Win Gold
Speaking of Psychology
This audio podcast from the American Psychological Association explores the latest and most important research in psychological science and what it means for everyday life. In each episode, host Kim Mills interviews leading psychologists and researchers about topics such as mental health, relationships, learning, work, and human behavior. Through engaging conversations grounded in evidence-based science, the podcast helps listeners better understand how psychology shapes the way we think, feel, and act, and how insights from research can be applied in practical ways. Praised by The New York Times as both entertaining and enlightening while remaining firmly rooted in science, Speaking of Psychology brings cutting-edge psychological research to a broad audience in an accessible and engaging format.
LIVE FROM THE THRESHOLD
An Art-Science Conversation, Live from the Threshold invites audiences into conversations at the intersections of art, science, and society. Curated and moderated by Ines Montalvao (Program Director, Artists with Evidence), the series is a collaboration between Artists with Evidence and the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Washington DC.
In a time of ecological upheaval and technological acceleration, conventional frameworks often fail us. Artists and scientists are increasingly called to think and act together, cultivating practices rooted in attention, slowness, and relationality. The dialogue explores the porous boundaries between human and non-human worlds; underground ecosystems and unseen infrastructures of life; interspecies listening and sonic practices of care; the politics of access, limits, and ecological boundaries; and the body as an epistemological site—sensing, adapting, and communicating across thresholds.
DOMINICAN VOICES PROJECT
The Dominican Voices Project is a bilingual digital archive that documents education and childhood in the Dominican Republic from 1920 to 1960. The goal is to collect videotaped interviews with Dominicans who were born and raised in the country during the 1920s to 1960s.
These stories are recorded to broaden our understanding of what education and childhood were like in the Dominican Republic in the early 20th century. We aim to go beyond written sources to capture the diverse ways people learned, both within and outside of formal schools.
