Simon Barnard

About

I run Bafflegab Productions. Our most recent productions are The Witch Farm, Uncanny, The Battersea Poltergeist, Children of the Stones and Inside Ghosts for BBC Sounds; Hunting Ghosts with Gatiss and Coles, Lemn Sissay’s Poetry Rebels and an adaptation of Howl’s Moving Castle for BBC Radio 4, The Sound at the End and Car Crash for Audible, and Truthdiggers for Fun Kids.In 2022 we won Gold for Best True Crime Podcast and Silver for Best Weird Podcast at the Signal Awards, Gold for Best Presenter at the Audio Production Awards; plus Silver for Creative Innovation and Bronze for Best New Show at the ARIAS. In 2021 we won Gold for Best Serialized Podcast at the New York Festivals Radio Awards for The Battersea Poltergeist, and in 2020 also won Gold for Best Drama Special at the New York Festivals Radio Awards for our updating of M.R. James’ The Ash Tree, and Silver for Best Drama at the ARIA Awards for another James adaptation, A View from a Hill.Prior to Bafflegab I spent over a decade producing music shows and documentaries at BBC Radio 1, and subsequently made documentaries for BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 4, music shows for BBC 6Music and drama for BBC Radio 4 Extra and Audible. I've won three Sony Awards, including Gold in 2005 for the John Peel documentary Teenage Dreams So Hard To Beat, some BBC Audio and Music Awards for Best Sound Production, and loads of New York Radio Awards.