Julia Johnson
Podcasts, Radio, Audiobooks
CURRICULUM VITAE
2014 - 24 Freelance Audio Producer
Over the last decade I've made dozens of podcasts and radio programmes for clients including The Economist, The River Café and Audible.
I've worked for BBC Radio 4 on long-standing programmes Front Row, In Our Time and The Long View, made editions of The Economist Asks and Checks and Balance podcast for The Economist and edited The River Cafe Table 4 podcast, with contributors Salman Rushdie, David Beckham, Tracey Emin, Edward Enniful, Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal and others.
My news and current affairs output for Radio 4 includes a documentary on Trump and the Media with Alan Rusbridger and another on US-China trade tensions with economist George Magnus.
For The Economist, I've made podcasts on the 2024 Election, US China relations, the future of Taiwan, the military retreat from Afghanistan and water shortages and wildfires in the American West.
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.
