The Apple and Biscuit Show
by Dr Neil Hillman and Jason Nicholas
TV & FilmE · Explicit
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About this podcast
Dr. Neil Hillman and Jason Nicholas, two professionals working in film and television sound, discuss the many ways sound is used in moving picture productions to engage, entertain, educate and inform audiences. The podcast covers a range of topics through interviews with industry insiders as well as academics and professionals in other fields who talk about the human understanding and perception of sound.
Episodes
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- #022 Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint · 1 h 1 min · Season 2 Episode 12In this episode, Neil and Jason talk to the Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint film director Jack Spring, its Sound Designer Anna Sulley and Composer Jeremy James-Hunt; whilst Jason…
- #021 Russ Hughes: He's keeping score and we should be paid more · 44 min · Season 2 Episode 11In this episode, Neil and Jason talk to Russ Hughes, who founded the Production Expert blog nearly 20 years ago. Now it attracts over 7 million viewers a year: and all of them…
- #020 Pip Piper: The role of documentary in social change · 1 h 16 min · Season 2 Episode 10Over a 30-year career, UK indie Producer and Director Pip Piper has Produced nine feature documentaries, including 'Mountain Biking: The Untold British Story' and 'Bicycle', both…
- #019 Jonathan Glazier: the heavy lifting behind light entertainment · 1 h 16 min · Season 2 Episode 9Jonathan Glazier is one of the television industry's leading lights in television Light Entertainment. Over a 40-year career, Jonathan has directed and produced some of the most…
- #018 Mark Franken: On designing the tools that re-conformed an entire industry · 58 min · Season 2 Episode 8Mark Franken is the double Emmy-winning creator of the sound editing software tools EdiCue, EdiLoad and EdiPrompt; products that since their inception in 2007, have come to be…
- #017 Dr. Iain McGregor: Why hearing means feeling–designing sound for the real world · 47 min · Season 2 Episode 7Dr Iain McGregor is an Associate Professor at Edinburgh Napier University, specialising in interactive media design and auditory perception research. His PhD in soundscape…
- #016 From Edgar Wallace to Wallace and Gromit–A Grand Day Out at the National Film and Television School · 60 min · Season 2 Episode 6In the last of his mini-series of three documentaries recorded on a recent trip to the UK, Neil visits the home of the National Film and Television School at the historic…
- #015 Dead Cats and Fish Poles—The Story of the Basket Windshield · 57 min · Season 2 Episode 5In this documentary, Neil looks at the emergence of location sound recording for cinema and one of the significant technological developments that enabled this. Starting with the…
- #014 Acoustic Ecology with Dr Jesse Budel · 1 h 15 min · Season 2 Episode 4In this episode Neil and Jason speak with Dr Jesse Budel, a composer-performer, sound artist, academic and arts entrepreneur based in South Australia. As a composer, his works…
- #013 Blast-off from Birmingham – The Story of Grosvenor Road Studios · 1 h 27 min · Season 2 Episode 3In this documentary, Neil travels back to his home town of Birmingham to learn more about what he considers to be the city's best kept cultural secret – Grosvenor Road Studios…
- #012 Reading others, understanding ourselves – Michelle Mills-Porter · 1 h 19 min · Season 2 Episode 2In this episode, Neil and Jason talk to behaviour analyst Michelle Mills-Porter, about the challenges faced by creatives: particularly freelancers who work in ad-hoc teams and…
- #011 Dreamcatcher – composer David Lowe on ambition, hope and phenomenal success · 1 h 30 min · Season 2 Episode 1In this episode, Neil and Jason talk to the prolific British composer David Lowe about his rise to success and his musical milestones along the way—from work experience at BBC…
- #010 (Pt. 2) The devil in the detail – Simon Hayes and Josh Winslade on recording live vocals for Wicked · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 12In this episode (Part 2 of 2) Neil and Jason talk in-depth and 'totally technical' about the musical Wicked with the Oscar-winning Production Sound Mixer Simon Hayes and on set…
- #010 (Pt. 1) The devil in the detail – Simon Hayes and Josh Winslade on recording live vocals for Wicked · 1 h 18 min · Season 1 Episode 11In this episode, (Part 1 of 2), Neil and Jason talk in-depth and 'totally technical' to the Oscar-winning Production Sound Mixer Simon Hayes, and on set music editor Josh…
- #009 Mark Deeks on The Sound of (Heavy) Metal · 48 min · Season 1 Episode 10Dr Mark Deeks is someone who likes to challenge our assumptions about music, and in particular Heavy Metal, which he suggests has more than a passing resemblance to folk music…
- #008 Maestro: Stephen Griffiths on the sound design of TÁR · 1 h 12 min · Season 1 Episode 9British Supervising Sound Editor and Sound Designer Stephen Griffiths is responsible for some of the most intelligent and entertaining soundtracks of the last two decades or…
- #007 (Pt. 2) Signal To Noise Is Everything – Simon Hayes · 41 min · Season 1 Episode 8In this episode (part 2 of 2), Neil and Jason talk to the Oscar-winning Production Sound Mixer Simon Hayes about the work-ethic he learned from filming with his father…
- #007 (Pt. 1) Signal to noise is everything – Simon Hayes · 1 h 6 min · Season 1 Episode 7In this episode (part 1 of 2), Neil and Jason talk to Oscar-winning Production Sound Mixer Simon Hayes about his demanding work on location film sets and deep-dive into Simon's…
- #006 Making film sound sing – Nina Hartstone and John Warhurst · 1 h 19 min · Season 1 Episode 5In this episode, Neil and Jason talk to the Oscar-winning supervising sound editors and sound designers, Nina Hartstone and John Warhurst, about their work and specifically…
- #005 What did he just say? – Mike Thornton · 58 min · Season 1 Episode 5In this episode, Neil and Jason talk to 'Mr. Loudness', Mike Thornton, about the issues of television programme loudness and dialogue intelligibility. Why is the background music…
