Laura Haydon

Laura Haydon

Type of Programming

Crafted audio features, current affairs packages and full-length radio documentaries.

Overview

Laura Haydon Productions is a Belfast-based outfit supplying BBC World Service, Radio 4, Radio Netherlands, Deutsche Welle and NPR. Recent productions include:

For BBC Radio Ulster:
Aug ‘09:  “The Night the Troubles Started” – two-part series to mark the 40th anniversary of the outbreak of the N Ireland Troubles.

For RTE Lyric FM:
Autumn ‘08:  “The Secret Life of the Circus” – three-part series on the traditional and contemporary circus in Ireland.

For RTE Radio 1:
Summer ‘09:  “Stalled Ambitions – The Story of Belfast’s Last Market”.

For Newstalk 106-108fm:
2009:  “The Sins of the Fathers” – children of N Ireland’s long-term paramilitary prisoners tell their stories.
2008:  “The Silent Sentence” – portrait of a life-sentence prisoner, his wife and his nine-year-old daughter.
2007:  “The Other Side of the Blanket” – the story of the loyalists who joined the republican blanket protests in the H Blocks.

The company has won several awards under the BAI’s Sound and Vision scheme.

In March 2007, Laura Haydon was named Broadcast Feature Journalist of the Year at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations Northern Ireland Media Awards.