Iain Mackness
Radio and Audio Producer/Director
Iain Mackness
Radio Drama - production, sound design, mixing, directing
Audiobooks - recording, mixing, directing
Radio Documentaries - production, mixing, recording, interviewing, scripting
Sound Design | Podcasts | Voicereels | Location Recording
Production Experience
Year
Production
Role
Broadcaster / Platform
Company
2025
The AnalogueTrash Artist-on-Artist Podcast
Night of the Living Dead
adapted by Nick Birchill and Rosie Nikolich
Remember Your Lovers: The Poetry of Sidney Keyes
Programme Mixer - All episodes
Sound designer
Sound designer
Online
Live theatre production at Hippodrome Theatre, Todmorden
Online audio project in association with the Finborough Theatre and Rhyme and Reason
AnalogueTrash
TAODS
Roguegunners
Productions
2024
Programme Mixer - All episodes
Director, sound and lighting designer
Sound designer and voice actor
Online
Live theatre production at Hippodrome Theatre, Todmorden
Live theatre production at Hippodrome Theatre, Todmorden
AnalogueTrash
TAODS
TAODS
2023
(Adapted by Catherine Harvey.
Produced by Kurt Brookes and Ashley Byrne)
George Orwell's 1984
Witness History: When America banned silicone breast implants
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
Director, sound designer, programme mixer, location recorder
Voice recording
Co-producer, presenter and programme mixer
BBC Radio 4
Part of the Love Stories season
Live theatre production at Hippodrome Theatre, Todmorden
BBC World Service
Made in Manchester Productions
TAODS
Made in Manchester Productions
2022
Around the World in 80 Days
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne and Jerry Barnett)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne and Darryl Morris)
Little Women
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne, Emma Purshouse, Steve Pottinger)
Sound designer and operator
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Sound designer, voice recordist, operator
Co-producer and programme mixer
Live theatre production at Hippodrome Theatre, Todmorden
BBC World Service
Presenter: Winifred Robinson
BBC World Service
Presenter: Jerry Barnett
BBC World Service
Presenter: Konishiki Yasokichi
BBC World Service
Presenter: Darryl Morris
Live theatre production at Hippodrome Theatre, Todmorden
BBC Radio 4
Presenter: Matt Powell (AKA Mad Dog Maxx)
TAODS
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
TAODS
Made in Manchester Productions
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2002 - 2008
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne and Caroline Heywood)
Neville's Island
9/11 -The Day That Changed Our Lives Forever
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
Tongue and Talk: The Dialect Poets (Series 4, 3 parts; Co-produced with Ashley Byrne and Catherine Harvey)
The Definitive History of Jazz in Britain (10 parts)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
The Day I Met Prince Philip (2 progs)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
Keep 'em Laughing: 100 Years of Tommy Cooper (Co-produced with Ashley Byrne and Kurt Brookes)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
Bodies (10 part narrative history series; Co-produced with Ashley Byrne and Freddy Chick)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
Training for Tokyo (2 part series)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
The Likely Dads (8 part comedy series; Co-produced with Ashley Byrne and Kurt Brookes)
Agatha Christie's The Lie (Sunday Drama; Co-produced with Ashley Byrne and Martin Lewton)
Young and Cool - A Brief History of Country (Co-produced with Ashley Byrne and Kerri MciIroy)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne and Kurt Brookes)
Tongue and Talk: The Dialect Poets (Series 3, 4 parts; Co-produced with Ashley Byrne and Catherine Harvey)
The Tragic Life, and Death of Timothy Evans
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
A Healthy Future (series 2, 4 parts)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
Giorgio Moroder: Together in Electric Dreams
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
From Ivor to Sam: The Art of Kids TV (Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
Tongue and Talk: The Dialect Poets (Series 2, 3 parts; Co-produced with Ashley Byrne and Catherine Harvey)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
Peterloo: The Massacre That Changed Britain (2 part series; Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
Ricky Valance: Still Telling Laura He Loves Her
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
Archive on 4: Beating Hitler with Humour
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne and Kristina Moorhead)
Tongue and Talk: The Dialect Poets (Series 1, 3 parts; Co-produced with Ashley Byrne and Catherine Harvey)
Pandemic: The Story of the 1918 Flu
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
Nye Bevan: The Man Who Made The NHS (2 progs; Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
A Comic Celebration: The Beano & The Dandy (2 progs; Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne and Catherine Harvey)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
Pandemic: Scotland and the Flu
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
After Munich: How They Rebuilt United (Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
Pandemic: How The Flu Changed Wales (3 part series)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
The Lost World of the Suffragettes
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
The Day Hope Died: Remembering Robert Kennedy
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
A Healthy Future (3 part series; Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
The Lost World of the Welsh Suffragettes (2 part series; Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
Talking Sport - 90 Years of Commentary
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
The Day I Met Diana (2 progs; Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
Marc Almond's Torch Song Trilogy
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
Hedd Wyn: The Poet and The Hero
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
The Story of the Light (2 progs; Co-produced with Ashley Byrne and Derek Webster)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
(Produced by Ashley Byrne)
(5 part narrative history series produced by Ashley Byrne
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
( A 26 part children's series; co-produced with Ashley Byrne, David Hanson, Robert Rigby)
(Produced by Ashley Byrne)
James Dean - The Last Ten Weeks
(Produced by Ashley Byrne)
(3 parts; Produced by Ashley Byrne)
Witness History Programmes - DNA Fingerprinting / The Death of James Dean
Various packages for DW
Dreaming of Foxes by Aelish Michael
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
(Produced by Ashley Byrne)
Preston 3:20 (3 dramatic audio guided walks around the city)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
Suzie Pugh and a Monster Too! Eps 12-16
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne and Phil Collinge)
Don’t Cry For Me Maradona by Aelish Michael
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
Manchester History Series (10 parts)
(Produced by Ashley Byrne)
Undone by Chad Mcgitchie
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
Steerage by Georgina Perry (Live theatre production)
A Butcher’s Wilderness by Lucas Gnomite
(Co-produced with Steve Murphy)
The Davidson Affair
(Co-produced with Steve Murphy)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
(Winner of Best Online Only Drama – BBC Radio Drama Awards 2012)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
The Miner and the Thief by Mark Griffiths
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
As We Forgive Them by Richard Vergette
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
Suzie Pugh and a Monster Too! by Phil Collinge (Original pilot; Co-produced with Ashley Byrne and Phil Collinge)
Death in Genoa by Thomas Wright
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne)
Turing’s Test by Phil Collinge and Andy Lord
(Co-produced with Ashley Byrne and Phil Collinge)
The Midland, Life in Pieces, The Paradox Suite, Obsessions, Ratty, Ratty 2, *Map & Steads, Spine Chillers, Chief Surgeon Mal Practeeeece's Theatre of Horror, *Salford Voices, *Salford Voices 2
Co-producer and programme mixer
Sound designer, voice recordist, operator
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer, sound designer, mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer, sound designer, programme mixer, director of dramatic sections
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer, sound designer, programme mixer, director of dramatic sections
Programme mixer
Writer, Sound designer, programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer, sound designer, programme mixer, director of dramatic sections
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Writer, sound designer, programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer, sound designer, programme mixer, director of dramatic sections
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer, sound designer, programme mixer, director of dramatic sections
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer, sound designer, programme mixer, director of dramatic sections
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Writer and programme mixer
Writer, Sound designer, programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Co-producer, Sound designer, Programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Writer, Sound designer, programme mixer
Writer and programme mixer
Co-producer and programme mixer
Programme mixer
Programme mixer
Co-producer, sound designer, director of drama elements
Sound designer, programme mixer, *writer
Sound designer, programme mixer, *writer
Sound designer and programme mixer
Programme mixer
Assistant programme mixer
Sound designer and programme mixer
Programme mixer
Sound designer and programme mixer
Programme mixer
Sound designer and programme mixer
Sound designer/ programme mixer/voice artist
Co-producer, sound designer, programme mixer
Sound designer/ programme mixer/voice artist
Co-director/co-producer /sound designer/voice artist
Sound mixer and voice artist for dramatic sections
Director/co-producer/sound designer/voice artist
Director/co-producer/sound designer/voice artist
Director/co-producer/sound designer
Sound mixer and voice artist for dramatic sections
Co-producer, sound designer, programme mixer
Sound Designer
Director/co-producer
Director/co-producer
Director/co-producer/sound designer/voice artist
Co-producer, sound designer, programme mixer
Director/co-producer/sound designer/voice artist
Co-producer, sound designer, programme mixer
Co-producer, sound designer, programme mixer
Co-producer, sound designer, programme mixer
Co-producer, sound designer, programme mixer
Co-producer, sound designer, programme mixer
Co-producer, Co-director, sound designer, programme mixer
BBC Radio 4
Presenter: David Baddiel
Live theatre production at Hippodrome Theatre, Todmorden
BBC World Service
Presenter: Joan Mastropaolo
BBC Radio 4
Presenters: Rakie Ayola, Catherine Harvey, Shaun Strackan
Jazz FM
Presenter: Clive Myrie
BBC Radio 5 Live / World Service
Presenter: Winifred Robinson
BBC Radio Wales
Presenter: Mike Bubbins
BBC World Service
Presenter: Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson
BBC Radio 4
Presenter: Professor Alice Roberts
BBC Radio Wales
Presenter: Sir Neil Kinnock
BBC Radio Wales
Presenter: Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson
BBC Radio 4
Presenter: Tim Vincent. Guests: Russell Kane, Mick Ferry, various
BBC Radio 4
Director: Julius Green
Absolute Radio
Presenter: Kerri MciIroy
BBC Radio 4
Presenter: Prof John Oxford
BBC Radio Wales
Presenter: Tracy Cardwell
BBC Radio 4
Presenters: Catherine Harvey, Alan Mumby, Jason Griffiths, Emma Purshouse
BBC Radio Wales
Presenter: Harriet Pierpoint
Podcast
BBC World Service
BBC Radio Wales
Presenter: Professor Alice Roberts
BBC World Service
BBC Radio Wales
Presenter: Tim Vincent
BBC Radio 4
Presenters: Catherine Harvey, Katie Hale, Katie Edwards
BBC World Service
Presenter: Francine Jones
BBC Radio 1 / 1Xtra
BBC Radio 4
Presenter: Katharine Viner
BBC Radio Wales
Presenter: Owen Money
BBC Radio 4
Presenter: Timur Vermes
BBC World Service
BBC Radio 4
Presenters: Kirsty McKay, James Walker, Catherine Harvey
BBC World Service
Presenter: Prof John Oxford
BBC Radio Wales
Presenter: Steve Speirs
BBC World Service
Presenter: Ana Matronic
BBC World Service / Radio Wales
Presenter: Michael Sheen
BBC Radio Scotland
Presenter: Elaine C Smith
BBC Radio Wales
Presenter: Catherine Harvey
BBC Radio 2
Presenter: Barney Harwood
BBC Radio Scotland
Presenter: Prof John Oxford
BBC World Service
Presenter: Stephen Tompkinson
BBC Radio 5 Live
Presenter: Mark Chapman
BBC Radio Wales
Presenter: Prof John Oxford
BBC World Service
Presenter: Jane Garvey
BBC Radio 4
Presenter: Huey Morgan
BBC World Service
Presenter: Stephen Sackur
BBC Radio Wales
Presenter: Professor Alice Roberts
BBC Radio Wales
Presenter: Cerys Matthews
BBC World Service
BBC World Service
BBC World Service
Presenter: Gudmundur Benediktsson
BBC Radio 4
Presenter: Aasmah Mir
BBC Radio 5 Live / BBC Radio Wales
BBC World Service
Presenter: Nichi Hodgson
BBC Radio 2
Presenter: Marc Almond
BBC World Service
Presenter: Paul Williams
BBC Radio Wales
Presenter: Huw Garmon
BBC Radio 2
Presenter: Paul O'Grady
BBC World Service
BBC World Service
BBC Radio 4
Presenter: Benjamin Zephaniah
BBC Radio 4
Presenter: Stephen Sackur
BBC Radio 4
Presenter: Helen Castor
BBC Radio 4
Presenter: Fintan O'Toole
BBC World Service
BBC World Service
Cbeebies Radio
BBC Radio 4
Presenter: Nichi Hodgson
BBC Radio 2
Presenter: Robert Wagner
BBC Radio Wales
Presenter: Dan Snow
BBC World Service
BBC World Service
BBC World Service
BBC World Service
Deutsche Welle in Germany: www.dw.de
BBC Radio 4Extra
Director: Joyce Branagh
Deutsche Welle in Germany: www.dw.de
Online and via distinctnostalgia.com
Documentary for BBC Radio 3 featuring dramatic reconstructions
Preston Guild Website/ Audio tour headsets
Actors: Steve Murphy, Lynn Roden
Fun Kids Radio, RTE, Falklands Radio
Actors: Vicky Binns, Steve Murphy
BBC Radio 5 Live
Actors: Tim Healy, Denise Welch
BBC Radio Manchester
Presenter: John Stapleton
Online Drama via Canal St Website
The Midland Hotel, Manchester
Audiobook Download (Amazon, CD Baby, Google Play)
Live Radio Drama, various venues
Fun Kids Radio, RTE, Falklands Radio
Actors: Vicky Binns, Steve Murphy
The Independent Online
Director: Tim Fountain
Actors: Betty Bourne, Michael Xavier, Paul Kendrick
Fun Kids Radio, RTE, Falklands Radio
Actors: Vicky Binns, Steve Murphy
The Independent Online
Director: Mike Heath
Actors: Ian Curley, Chris Barlow
The Independent Online
Directors: Andy Pearson & Mike Heath
Actors: Joe Sims, Richard Vergette
The Independent Online
Director: Mike Heath
Actors: Vicky Binns, Steve Murphy
The Independent Online
Directors: Joyce Branagh & Neil Gardner
Actors: Simon Callow, Samuel Barnett, Marcello Magni, Blake Ritson, Freddie Machin
The Independent Online
Directors: Mike Heath & Neil Gardner
Actors: Samuel Barnett, Paul Kendrick
Online dramas and anthology pieces
*Also broadcast on Salford City Radio / ALL FM
Made in Manchester Productions
TAODS
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Distinct Nostalgia
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Oubliette Audio
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
24:7 Theatre Festival
Jdamf Publishing
Steve Murphy Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester Productions
Made in Manchester / Dark Smile Productions
Made in Manchester/ Dark Smile Productions
Made in Manchester/ Dark Smile Productions
Made in Manchester/ Dark Smile Productions
Dark Smile Productions
2010 - present
2010 - present