Iain McKinna

I'm an Independent Audio producer, Music Producer and Recording Studio owner. I started Offbeat Music Productions in Edinburgh's Royal Mile back in early 1994.

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The Optimised Human a Beginners Guide to Biohacking

By Olli Sovijarvi, Teemu Arina and Jaako Halmetoja was the 120th Audiobook we’ve recorded at Offbeat. Brilliantly narrated by Steve Worsley, & produced and directed by Iain McKinna for Quercas Books - A division of Hachette

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@markcousinsfilm Happy birthday Mark. 🎈

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Following a £10 Million renovation
Teviot university re-opens with an Audio Guide produced at Of
Offbeat produced an audio guide of the building which is now open to visitors.

It involved music and narration which we put together for the audio tour.

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Penguin Random House returned to Offbeat to record Stops Along The Way by US author Anna Sortino, narrated by Elizabeth Robbins.

Direction came in live from New York via Zoom from Karlyn Daigle

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Last year I had the pleasure of restoring the audio of Alasdair Gray’s narration of his landmark novel Lanark from cassette to digital at our Edinburgh recording studio for Canongate Books. It’s now been included in an audiobook alongside narration by Alan Cumming and Angus King.

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Amazing to see our Kirsty McKinna on the Swinton Style Instagram page. It turns out Kirsty used to babysit for Bella Freud and later went to the same Steiner school.

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Breaking news on the audiobook I produced and directed with Tilda Swinton last week for Canongate Books.

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Kitty Dinwoodie was back at Offbeat recording a VO for a film that’s part of the We Actually Live Here series published in the quarterly online lifestyle magazine Storied. Kitty and husband Nielsen (aka The Good Vikings) produced it for their client Forbes Global Properties

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Forever K Pop

Our producer George Wood is currently up to high doh producing 28 K pop tracks for the FOREVER K POP Celebration Concert, a major North American tour launching in March 2026.

This is full scale tour production work. Tracks built for live performance & choreography

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WINTERBOURNE

Narrated by Olivia Caw for Bonnier Books, this production of the audiobook version of Winterbourne by Elisabeth Wolf was recorded at Offbeat.

'Haunting, ominous and astonishingly dark. A mesmerising triumph.'
Suzy Aspley, author of Crow Moon

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Just delivered the 3rd audiobook I’ve directed and produced for Dr Gavin Francis.

In The Unfragile Mind, published by Profile Books, Gavin draws on conversations with patients, colleagues, and his thirty years of practice to explore the chequered history of psychiatry,

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Chuffed to bits to be involved in the forthcoming audiobook - Birthing by Davina McCall.
Caroline Flint was Davina’s midwife and she narrated the introduction. I helped Caroline to set up recording at her home. Then edited & produced the final audio segment for Harper Collins.

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Looking forward to recording New York Times best selling author Kelly Andrew’s gothic horror audiobook ‘The Gravewood’ with direction down the line from US by Zane Birdwell. Narrated by Elisabeth Robbins. We last worked on Adventures of Mary Jane for Penguin USA.

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I really enjoyed a radio recording of the Xmas episode of 20th Century Radicals for BBC Radio 3 presented by Gillian Moore & Kate Molleson and Produced by Sam Phillips down the line from Devon.

Featuring the music of Sun Ra. And Jonathan Harvey’s, Winter of Spring.

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Came across this smashing pic of Steve Worsley and Olivia Caw after recording the audiobook of Stuart MacBride’s latest crime classic This House of Burning Bones which I produced for Pan MacMillan earlier this year. Steve narrated the book and Olivia directed.

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Excellent Ideas For Leaders podcast hosted by Roddy Miller with Ann Packard from the RSA. (Royal Society For Arts).

Special guest Steve Mostyn spoke about his book Why Great Leaders Ask Great Questions. Steve Recorded the audiobook version for Hachette Publishing here at Offbeat

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Young and Stateless

Another fascinating BBC World Service recording at Offbeat, with the Allan Little in the studio and BBC producer Victoria Ferran joining us on Zoom from London.

The programme explores what it means to live without a nationality.
A Just Radio production.

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We recorded the hugely talented Yasmeen Ansari-Roberts voicing several characters for The Lord of the Rings Online

It was a real pleasure working with Yasmeen while she was in the UK a versatile and expressive voice actor who brought real depth and authenticity to each role.

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We’re very pleased to highlight the latest collaboration with Bonnier Books. You might Colin MacLachlan from the Channel 4 series SAS: Who Dares Wins. One of the great things about this job is meeting and getting to know genuinely remarkable people in between the sessions.

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Great to have been involved in the Sunday Feature tomorrow night on BBC Radio 3s celebration of Strauss’s 200th birthday. Produced by award winning producer Rosie Boulton