Hi. I work in sound, words, and photography.

Over the past decade I've worked for the BBC World Service, ABC Radio National, ABC News, and the Sydney Opera House, among others.

In that time I've made audio documentaries, produced live radio and podcasts, curated public talks, and reported on foreign affairs.

I also take photos. Lots of them. Some of them have been exhibited around Australia as part of the National Portrait Prize.

So, if you're into the arts, design, and social history, give my work a read, listen, or look.

I'm based in London, and I'd love to chat.

Pio Abad is an artist whose work about the excess of the Philippines’ Imelda Marcos led him on a journey to uncover other histories of loot and plunder… and that earned him a Turner Prize nomination. In this short profile for Monocle Radio's Daily programme, Pio tells me how Philippine history became a jumping off point to discover other stories of conquest and plunder.

A submission to the Field Recordings podcast featuring the call of the Baja California frog at dusk on the Los Angeles River. It’s a peculiar, but in my opinion, stunningly surreal part of LA.

An audio documentary charting the cinematic absurdity of the Los Angeles River, and the efforts of Angelenos to fix it. To do this I traced the career of the award-winning Salvadorian-American landscape architect Mia Lehrer, who's made it her life's work to resurrect the river from its concrete coffin.

This autobiographical documentary used the story of my late mother to tell a broader story about Filipina migration to Australia. In turn, my mother's migration story, and tens of thousands of other Filipinas like her, revealed a bigger story about how the Philippine state championed marriage migration by the late 20th-century, using beauty pageants to market the notion of the "Filipina beauty".

A RN Big Ideas talk I produced in collaboration with Melbourne's ALWAYS LIVE festival for 2023, featuring Caroline Polachek in conversation with Australian author, Brodie Lancaster.

This was a public talk I curated and produced for Big Ideas — ABC Radio National's live events program — in collaboration with Melbourne's annual urbanism conference, the Living Cities Forum. This talk analysed the broader power structures, beyond the architect's pen, that define what housing looks like.

Panellists included Carles Baiges Camprubi, co-founder of the EU Mies van der Rohe Award-winning architecture cooperative, LaCol, Keller Easterling, Yale's Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture, and Libby Porter, director of the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University.

A Blueprint For Living interview with Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell — editors of Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories. It's an atlas of more than 90 spaces — the domestic, communal, and public — representing home for queer communities, including an ice-cream parlour in Havana, an abandoned Nicaraguan cathedral, and the fantastical castles of the reclusive Bavarian King Ludwig II.

A Blueprint For Living interview with Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of Gay Bar: Why We Went Out.

A Blueprint for Living interview with architectural scholars June Williamson and Ellen Dunham-Jones. They have been documenting the phenomenon of retrofitted suburbia, where dead malls and other 'underperforming' properties are remade to meet people's needs. This has seen malls turn into community health centres, Kmarts into schools, while huge office parks now host thriving medium-density communities.

A tour of Dublin via its literary history for ABC Radio National's travel podcast, Return Ticket.

A Blueprint for Living interview with Robyn Healy about the life and work of Japanese designer, Issey Miyake. She was the National Gallery of Australia's inaugural curator of international fashion in the 1980s, and later became the National Gallery of Victoria's senior curator of fashion and textiles – institutions among the first in Australia to collect Miyake's work.

A Blueprint For Living interview with Loata Ho, Fiji's only architecturally trained Indigenous woman, and the founder of architectural practice WomenBuild. Her award-winning work is designed to help bring Fijian women into the design process, and de-mystify the role of the architect in regional communities across Fiji.

A Blueprint For Living interview with Marcia Chatelain about McDonalds and Black America. From the civil rights era onward, McDonalds — in concert with the US federal government — promoted black franchise ownership to advance African American social and economic mobility. Chatelain compiled these intersecting histories in 'Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America', winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for history.

For this episode of RN's travel podcast, Return Ticket, we toured Bangkok... by mall. Using the luxury mall Icon Siam as our focus, I told a bigger story about the city by travelling up and down the mall's varied words — from the recreation of a Thai fishing village, to a Michelin-starred Parisian restaurant, to how street hawkers became mall hawkers.

A short audio documentary I made about London's post-war music cultures for RN's travel and culture program, Lost and Found.

An interview I produced with Batoul Faour, a Lebanese-Canadian architectural researcher and designer whose essay titled 'Glass Politics: On Broken Windows in Beirut', won the 2021 Avery Review Essay Prize. In this segment for RN's Blueprint For Living, Faour articulates how studying glass in the Lebanese capital tells a bigger story about the city's chequered recent history.

I produced this interview with the lauded Canadian designer, Bruce Mau, for ABC Radio National's Blueprint For Living.

A conversation I produced for ABC RN's Blueprint For Living with type designer Marie Boulanger. Her book, XX XY: Sex, Letters, and Stereotypes looked at the reasons why we seem to anthropomorphise type, specifically, the ways some of us continue to attribute gender to certain typefaces.