Highly commended for Innovation of the Year are @news.sky.com / @tortoisemedia.bsky.social for The Wargame. @deborahaynes.bsky.social @jshield.bsky.social @jbs96.bsky.social Tom Kinsella, Katy Scholes @jaspercorbett.bsky.social Paul Stanworth, Sarah Whitehead & David Mapstone #BJA2025
11.12.2025 20:02 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The decision facing Zelensky
Podcast Episode · The Global Story · 24/11/2025 · 26m
Our episode on the decision facing Zelensky – with director of 20 Days in Mariupol, Mstyslav Chernov
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24.11.2025 21:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Senior Journalist, Long Form Audio
Jobs like this don’t come up very often. The BBC is hiring a senior producer to work on the legendary Profile – in my opinion one of the best programmes on Radio 4 – and AntiSocial. Deadline 17th November: careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Senior-J...
04.11.2025 19:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A House of Dynamite is a brilliant, terrifying film about making an impossible decision with scant information
A few months ago my colleagues did something similar from a UK perspective
The key difference was that we knew who was attacking us... But our options were limited
29.10.2025 07:53 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
The British Podcast Awards featured a strange “glitch” that everyone found amusing; but has interesting implications. Most of the winners were upstairs in the cheap balcony seats, meaning there was a few minutes’ delay on almost EVERY award as the winners went down the back stairs to the stage. >>
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Podcast Spending and Frequency Splitting
Jayne Morgan‘s review of The Wargame:
“In a podcast landscape that is currently dominated by the ‘two people in a room’ format, it strikes a blow for the idea that complex, original audio production is still very much worthwhile”
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22.08.2025 14:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Episodes 3 & 4 of 'The Wargame' scheduled for release tonight.
Meanwhile, Russian state media coverage highlights that "they also have a person playing the president of Russia. This one. With a beard."
16.06.2025 20:12 — 👍 38 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 3
As a general rule I think adding music to a project as early as possible makes your edit better, because you can fit the speech around the music and vice versa, rather than waiting until the very end of the edit to add music into a finished edit. The ducking tool helps with that.
14.06.2025 16:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Audio of the draft script was temped by an AI narrator, which meant we could record the script just the once, after we'd refined it; 'ducking' meant Descript would automate music levels around speech, giving us a rough automix; and the basic EQ/compressor made it an easier listen.
14.06.2025 16:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
3) I've used these for years, but I think they're still underused: the audio effects panel (ducking, high-pass, compressor, limiter) and AI voices. Used together, they meant we could send rough edits for feedback which sounded much closer to the finished product.
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2) The 'remove retakes' feature. The series running time is 272 mins and we have a lot of script, recorded over about 7 hours in the studio in total, so 'remove retakes' + 'shorten silences' really helped speed up script editing.
14.06.2025 16:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Having video which was vision mixed live, and then working on a single video and audio edit up to the last stage of the process, hopefully saved time. It's the first time I've worked like this but it was pretty straightforward.
14.06.2025 16:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
… this meant that once our edit was done, it could be exported from Descript both to a Premiere timeline (for Sky colleagues to produce the video promos) and to Reaper, where I could swap the video for the original isolated audio stems before sending it to the sound designers.
14.06.2025 16:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
For the audio nerds, here are two new techniques (and one old one) I used to edit The Wargame in Descript:
1) All of the scenes in the Cobra room are edited from video files, which were vision mixed live on the day of the wargame by a Sky News OB team and Spiritland.
14.06.2025 16:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
That new The Wargame podcast is utterly brilliant. Not had a god tier podcast for ages. This is definitely that.
13.06.2025 15:20 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Sky News
The Wargame podcast: What if Russia attacked the UK?
The Wargame from Sky News and Tortoise is out today. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how we made it happen.
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10.06.2025 07:23 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Watch out for this tomorrow.
09.06.2025 06:29 — 👍 27 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Had a nice chat with Dom Joly on Times Radio about The Wargame, which is out on Tuesday.
06.06.2025 19:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’ll be on Times Radio with Deborah Haynes from Sky News from 2.45ish to talk about our new series, The Wargame.
06.06.2025 13:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Wargame: New Sky News and Tortoise Media podcast series simulates a Russian attack on UK
Former senior politicians, including Sir Ben Wallace, Jack Straw and Amber Rudd, play a fictional British government pitched against an imagined Kremlin.
This sounds great.
Former senior politicians, including Sir Ben Wallace, Jack Straw and Amber Rudd, play a fictional British government pitched against an imagined Kremlin.
The Wargame: New Sky News and Tortoise Media podcast series simulates a Russian attack on UK
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29.05.2025 10:59 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Wargame: New Sky News and Tortoise Media podcast series simulates a Russian attack on UK
Former senior politicians, including Sir Ben Wallace, Jack Straw and Amber Rudd, play a fictional British government pitched against an imagined Kremlin.
Date for your diary: on 10 June you will want to listen to this, especially if you are in the UK. @deborahaynes.bsky.social brought together a home team of former ministers, generals and top civil servants to game out defence against Russia. The results are interesting.
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