Sparklab Productions

Independent audio production company based in Manchester, UK. Creating inventive, surprising and imaginative content across drama, factual, and branded podcasts

[Ian Wylie @Wylienet]

I've spent most of my working life writing for newspapers, but love radio too. I got to combine the two in this @BBCRadio4 series I've produced/presented. Kind of a love letter to local news reporters and it starts today at 1.45pm, just before the Archers. https://t.co/OicST7QKKk

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Starts today: a kind of love letter to local reporters and local news by journalist Ian Wylie: https://t.co/lPD5M5GtFW

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@TheWoofWorld This is such a cool clip

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@____B_S____ Brilliant! xx

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@Laughs_4_All The collies have it - always. Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow xx

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@____B_S____ OMG! Brilliant!

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@ruslandvalley @BBCRadio4 Thanks so much !

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'Our Friends in the North' continues today at 14:15 on @BBCRadio4.

In Episode 5, it’s 1974.

The 3-day working week begins, Nicky campaigns for the Labour Party & Geordie plans revenge on Benny Barratt.

The series resumes with Ep 6 on 12/05/22

https://t.co/sYWgCde2Pc

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@Dr1Jn @BBCRadio4 Thanks John!

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Episode 4 of 'Our Friends in the North' airs today, at 14:15, on @BBCRadio4.

It's 1970. Nicky is intent on bringing down the government and the circles closes in on corrupt coppers in the Metropolitan Police force...

A @SparklabProds for @BBCRadio4.

https://t.co/juYrSFrpmb

[AudioUK @WeAreAudioUK]

Just one week after publishing, the Open Letter on the future funding for the @AudioFund has over 200 signatures 😎👍 If you haven't, please add your name now and encourage others to do so - anyone can sign, freelancers, company employees and individuals https://t.co/zK1854TryB

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@reillyusa @manairport It’s not like that at T2. We’ve been queuing for 2+hrs and getting nowhere. I’m trying to get an unaccompanied teenager on a flight to Tblisi. No explanations, no one in charge. A world class international airport?!?

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Ep 3 of our new @BBCRadio4 drama 'Our Friends in the North' airs today at 14:15!

Opening in 1967, Nicky turns his back on the Labour Party, Mary and Tosker’s new flat is crumbling and Scotland Yard’s Dirty Squad come up with a solution...

https://t.co/ltrEGgsw4D

[Charlotte Keatley @ckeatley1]

Superb & compelling radio: Our Friends In The North @bbc4drama by Peter Flannery, directed by Melanie Harris @SparklabProds first of episodes today. Great voices & cast, muscular & witty drama, the story is so relevant to our unlevel society right now.

[Jacqui Wicks @SuperWicksy]

I was nervous about this, but it’s perfect … bravo ⁦@SparklabProds⁩ https://t.co/FVYJfs0fKh

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Listen back to 'Banding: Love, Spit and Valve Oil'

https://t.co/yNwVYaiqrn

@Martin_Green__ explores the phenomenon that is modern brass banding, asking,
what continues to draw people in? 🎺

Prod @becca_gaskell & @Martin_Green__

A @LepusArts & @SparklabProds co-production

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We love Lepus! Making a 3-part R4 series with them...

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The big question we've all been asking; What is Lepus?

Script Editor Kate Leys talks about the "not at all secret network joining amazing people up" to explain how Lepus work with talented artists to make something new, exciting and slightly different!

https://t.co/D39PdJqDKQ

[AudioUK @WeAreAudioUK]

We're very sorry to hear of the passing of #PiersPlowright - many thanks to @sewell7 for drawing our attention to this interview

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3pm on @BBCRadio4, 'The Last of England' is a darkly comic drama by Neil McKay.

On an overnight ferry to Santander, 3 friends try (and fail) to come to terms with life, death and Brexit.

Starring @fayemckeever, @heresaclue2, @georgebukhari, Anthony O'Donnell & Gary Lewis

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I love this

[Suj / culture @sujculture]

And what I didn’t know, or couldn’t see then / Was that she hadn’t really gone / The dead don’t go till you do, loved ones / The dead are still there holding our hands
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