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    Alexandra Quinn

    Producer (staff)

    My Loftus Recommendation: Jayde Adams and her love for 'O Mio Babbino Caro' in the Barbican’s ’Sound Unbound’ series.

    My Favourite Sound: The tannoy announcement on LNER Trains “the next station will be York”.

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    Tom Woolfenden

    Producer (staff)

    My Loftus Recommendation: 'Why Can’t Our Children Talk?' or anything produced by Kim Normanton. Beautiful and moving stories about often difficult subjects.

    My Favourite Sound: Scrolling through an old radio dial.

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    Cheree Houston

    Production Coordinator (staff)

    My Loftus Recommendation: Black Music in Europe - it's history and music rolled up into one huge audio archive of gems. 

    My Favourite Sound: Chords in a Frank Ocean song. Any of them!

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    Dan King

    Senior Content Manager (staff)

    My Loftus Recommendation: Our ’Equal Britain' series... innovative format, intimate revelations and the full range of human emotions; it's a brilliant listen.

    My Favourite Sound: A deftly played, nylon strung acoustic guitar.

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    Richard Berry

    Director

    My Loftus Recommendation: 'Lockdown' - showcasing us at our creative best during an extraordinary year.

    My Favourite Sound: My son chuckling to himself.

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    Jo Luke Rowntree

    Director

    My Loftus Recommendation: 'Walks Like a Duck' - a revelatory take on living with a disability.

    My Favourite Sound: Rain: Preferably pelting, but I’ll take pitter-patter too. Glorious!

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    Elizabeth Burke

    Executive Producer (contractor)

    My Loftus Recommendation: ’Private Passions’: I’ve discovered so much great new music, and talking about music reveals well-known people in a new light.

    My Favourite Sound: I’m torn between the Dusk Chorus on a May evening in a Suffolk churchyard - and “Mind the Gap”.

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    Andy Smith

    Executive Producer (contractor)

    My Loftus Recommendation: the bathtub scene in ‘Walks Like a Duck’.

    My Favourite Sound: Bocelli singing on the pitch at Leicester City FC after we won the league - makes me cry every time!! 

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    Reuben Huxtable

    Assitant Producer (staff)

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    Sarah Jeynes

    Lead Photographer (contractor)

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    Jon Calver

    Studio Manager (contractor)

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    Mark Allan

    Photographer (freelance)

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    Miranda Hinkley

    Producer (freelance)

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    Jane Greenwood

    Producer, Private Passions (freelance)

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    Oliver Soden

    Classical Music Specialist, Private Passions (freelance)

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    Louise Cotton

    Executive Producer (freelance)

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    Paul March

    Lawyer

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    Sarah Louise Bennett

    Photographer (freelance)

    My Loftus Recommendation: Sarah Jeynes' shot of Stormzy's already legendary Glastonbury set, it perfectly sums up for me just how important, iconic and powerful that performance was.

    My Favourite Image: (that I've taken) Wolf Alice at Shepherd's Bush Empire in 2015. (That someone else has taken) Mick Jagger, photographed in Buffalo, New York in 1975 by Annie Leibovtiz.

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    Kim Normanton

    Producer (freelance)

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    Catherine Carr

    Producer & Presenter (freelance)

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    Chris Jones

    Music Content Specialist (contractor)

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    Pete Marsh

    Music Data Specialist (contractor)

    My Loftus Recommendation: 'The Myth and Mystery of Anja Thauer'. This was a totally engrossing listen for me; the story of a German cello prodigy who died tragically young and whose story seemed to have been erased from history. A fascinating, moving tale that takes some unexpected turns.

    My Favourite Sound: Foghorns (when you can still find them, that is).

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    Phil Hebblethwaite

    Journalist (contractor)

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    Chris Maclean

    Studio Manager (contractor)

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    Jane Long

    Producer (freelance)

    Loftus recommendation: My favourite hard-boiled crime writer James Ellroy sharing his infectious passion for Beethoven - 'the big Beet' - on ‘Private Passions.’

    Favourite sound: The roar of the MGM lion.

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    Leon Gower

    Producer (contractor)

    My Loftus Recommendation: ‘Where Are You Going? - New York’ specifically Catherine's meeting with the cat lady married to Kiwi the cat - 'it's a love thing of the highest order'

    My Favourite Sound: The crunch, clicks and whirls of a cassette tape player.