Dymphna Flynn – radio production
Dymphna is a development producer for Pier Productions – researching new fiction for BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime. Based in Brighton, Pier is one of the small number of production companies who make readings for BBC Radio 4. Alongside Book at Bedtime, Pier make Book of the Week and Short Readings and they also produce Audiobooks for various publishers
Dymphna was a producer at BBC Radio for over thirty years, notably as an expert in books and literature on Bookclub where she built up an incredible resource of over 250 podcast discussions with authors like Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith, Hilary Mantel, Benjamin Zephaniah and Kazuo Ishiguro and many more. She was also lead producer of the books brief on Front Row.
She has experience of:
- author and audience discussions
- live arts and culture magazine programmes
- live panel discussions
- live outside broadcasts from festivals (Hay, Edinburgh)
- extended pre-recorded interviews
- author and actor readings
- talks and keynote festival lectures
- working with high profile presenters
- recording Hollywood actors on locations
- long term planning / team management
Previous Credits on BBC Radio
- Radio 1: Social action programming
- Radio 2: documentaries about space technology and popular culture and the legacy of Indian culture in the UK
- Radio 3: The Verb, Night Waves and Free Thinking Festival
- Radio 4: Desert Island Discs, Open Book, Loose Ends, Home Truths, Midweek, You and Yours, Woman’s Hour, Postcard from Gotham, ad hoc documentaries
- Radio 5: Arthur Smith on the Floor
- World Service: Instant Guide; World Book Club