Julia Johnson
Podcasts, Radio, Audiobooks
CURRICULUM VITAE
2014 - 25 Freelance Audio Producer
Producing, editing and successfully pitching podcasts and documentaries for high-profile, trusted clients including The Economist, The River Café, the BBC and Times Radio.
Recent podcasts include Ruthie's Table 4 with celebrity guests such as Salman Rushdie, Tracey Emin, Gwyneth Paltrow and Tony Blair.
Checks and Balance for The Economist on U.S. politics, including the 2024 election, the future of Taiwan, the military retreat from Afghanistan and water shortages and wildfires in the American West.
Art that Conquered the World, Archive on 4: The other F Word, Future Art and I Feel therefore I Am - just some of the recent long-form documentaries and series I've produced and had commissioned by BBC Radio 4
Award-nominated history podcast Normal Women, which I helped devise and co-produced for Times Radio and HarperCollins to accompany Philippa Gregory's new history of women's lives
BBC World Service production including a celebration of David Attenborough's many decades in broadcasting
2001 - 2011 BBC Radio Documentaries
As well as the live show 'Last Word' , I made more than a hundred documentaries, many my own commissions and many history-related. I made programmes about the Cuban Missile Crisis, the War in the Pacific, the Greek Civil War, the Portuguese Revolution, the Hungarian Uprising, the American Civil War, China's Cultural Revolution and travelled around Spain to make a three-part series on the Spanish Civil War.
But it wasn't all war...I drove the M25 in a Porsche with James May to tell the story of City boys and an illegal midnight road race and I travelled to Maputo, Warsaw, Moscow, Beirut and Beijing to make Radio 3 Sunday Features about the visual arts, cinema and history.
