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Silver Winner
UK Production Company of the Year
Audio Production Awards 2021
WHO WE ARE
James Hickman
MIM Co-Founder

Made in Manchester is an award-winning international production company founded in 2005 by presenter and journalist Ashley Byrne and 5 Times World Butterfly Swimming Champion James Hickman. The company’s first productions included the RTS nominated ITV doc Cartoon Kings (about Cosgrove Hall Films) and From Bomb To Boom (an ITV documentary about Manchester 10 years after the IRA bomb). The company has produced hundreds of programmes and series for the BBC’s main radio networks including Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio 3, Radio 4, 5Live, 6Music and the BBC World Service. MIM also produces programmes for BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Scotland and several commercial stations. The company also produces a regular podcast - Distinct Nostalgia

Ashley Byrne - Presenter/Exec producer
and Creative Director

Kurt Brookes - Deputy Creative Director/Development Director

Mark Burrows - Technical Producer/Sound Editor

Wayne Wright - Producer & Researcher

Andrew Edwards - Head of Production Research

Iain Mackness - Presenter/Drama Producer

Maya Mitter - Presenter/Producer

Catherine Harvey - Presenter/Producer

James Brown - Producer

Rani Singh - Producer

Caroline Heywood - Producer

Kerri McIlroy - Presenter and Producer

Jonathan Holloway - Presenter and Producer
Other Team Members
Marverine Cole - Presenter/Producer

Rebecca Applin - Composer/Musician

Simon Zonenblick -
Producer/Researcher
Distinct Nostalgia

Alex Brooke - Producer/Presenter

Nichi Hodgson - Presenter/Producer

Yoshie Matsumoto - Reporter/Presenter based in Japan

Robert Shore - Producer/Writer

Clare Bend - Producer/Researcher

Katie Edwards - Presenter

Richard Higgins - Researcher/Archivist

Peter Reeves -
Producer, Development and research

Kiron Reid -
Lawyer / Specialist legal researcher

Derek Webster - Producer/Presenter

Wendy Tang - Reporter/Presenter based in Hong Kong/China

Carl Chetty -
Writer
(Drama & Comedy)

Ian McCormick - Producer/Creator of Day I Met strand

Phil Collinge - Executive Producer

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