OUR TEAM

Co-founder and Director

alex.anderson@tandemproductions.uk

Alex has over twenty years of experience producing and managing live and pre-recorded radio broadcasts, podcasts, audio dramas, and digital content including videos and animations.

He has overseen the production of flagship BBC radio shows and podcasts, working with eminent entrepreneurs, cabinet ministers, actors and musicians. He’s gone scuba diving with a microphone for BBC World Service and cycled through the night with microphones strapped to one of his many bikes for a Slow Radio project. 

Alex has also managed significant campaigns for a range of clients including the NHS, Penguin Random House and ABRSM.

Co-founder and Director

sarah.devonald@tandemproductions.uk

Sarah has been creating and making radio programmes for over three decades. She has produced daily music shows, documentaries, quizzes, magazine programmes, BBC Proms and studio music sessions with an array of well known names and debut artists, winning several awards along the way. 

As a presenter Sarah has enjoyed exploring illustrator Axel Scheffler’s attic for In the Studio on BBC World Service and often contributes to Radio 3’s Record Review. 

She plays the oboe, has an HND in jewellery design and manufacture, and recently cycled from the top to the bottom of France and across Czechia.

Assistant Producer

marion.bettsworth@tandemproductions.uk

Marion produces and coordinates Tandem’s two weekly shows broadcast on BBC Radio 3, besides creating audio and visual content for a range of projects. 

She recently project managed Tandem’s large scale production of audio dramas for the NHS Leadership Academy, before putting on a bee-keeper suit to record The Hum of the Hive for BBC Slow Radio.

Marion is also a pianist, organist and music teacher who enjoys pedalling in both the organ loft and on her many cycling adventures. 

Executive Producer

sam.phillips@tandemproductions.uk

Sam spent over a decade working as a radio producer for the BBC on a number of Sony Award nominated programmes before moving to the freelance world as a music producer and composer. 

He has worked with Tandem since 2018 and is currently the executive producer of Radio 3’s weekly live show Sunday Morning, while producing other programmes including Inside Music and Clive Myrie at Christmas.

Sam has also written soundtracks for a variety of short films, and finds inspiration walking on the moors and playing squash. 

Broadcast Assistant

charlotte.barbourcondini@tandemproductions.uk

Charlotte came to Tandem in 2019 as a presenter of Inside Music, and joined the team on a regular basis in 2021. 

Working behind the scenes, her musical knowledge and research skills enable Radio 3's regular broadcast shows and podcasts to run smoothly, week on week.

Charlotte is also a freelance recorder player and violinist. She co-founded the ensemble Parandrus, and is a founding member of the Chineke! Orchestra with whom she is a violinist, programme annotator, and Chineke! Junior Orchestra mentor.

Associate Producer

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Faith has worked with Tandem since 2018, producing Sunday Morning and Inside Music for BBC Radio 3, and over 70 episodes of LPO Offstage for the London Philharmonic Orchestra. She produced and presented a feature for Radio 3, Everybody Likes Music, Don’t They? and several episodes of In the Studio for BBC World Service.

As a voice-over artist she received praise for her narration of Tandem’s BBC Ideas film, World Without Humans.

Faith is also a professional singer, freelancing with various ensembles. Her band Archie released their debut EP in 2021.

Associate Producer

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Freya Hellier’s experience as a broadcast producer includes working for BBC Classical Music TV, The Proms, BBC Radio 3, 4 and World Service. She’s made programmes in almost every radio format, from large outside broadcasts to drive-time shows, documentaries and features.

For Tandem, Freya is a regular producer of both Radio 3’s Sunday Morning and Inside Music.

Beyond the BBC, Freya has produced podcasts for Wellcome Trust, the Open Data Institute, Pfizer, Universal Music, The Barbican, The Overseas Development Institute and the Empathy Museum.

Associate Animator & Designer

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Ben Dosage runs Studio Dosage, a 3D design and animation company based in Bristol. 

His strikingly artistic, computer-generated visuals have brought attention to brands including Selfridges, Cat, Nike, Louis Vuitton and Toyota. Ben also creates music videos for major recording artists.

For Tandem, Ben’s projects include the prescient and haunting BBC Ideas short, World Without Humans, and visions of what future farming might look like in a series of videos for Rothamsted Research.

Associate Audio Engineer

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Since training on the prestigious Tonmeister course at the University of Surrey, Morgan has worked on BBC radio shows including Private Passions, Gardeners’ Question Time, Random Edition, Something Understood, Inside Music, Words and Music and Jazz on 3, besides numerous one-off documentaries.

Sarah and Alex have been working with Morgan for twenty years, and he is Tandem’s go-to sound engineer, for his calm, technical efficiency, excellent musical ear and wry observations.