Digital
audio production company CultureCasts was set up over lunch
at Northumberland’s Manor House Inn between seasoned yet
impoverished media veterans Caroline Beck and John Adair.
Caroline's radio career includes a ten-year stint on the
flagship BBC news programme Today
as the
North East correspondent and a year working on
award-winning documentary series File
on Four. During
this time she also worked in the United States in both New
York and Washington. Other domestic programmes have
included regular contributions to Women's
Hour,
Costing
the Earth and
The
Food Programme. When
British news became too much she escaped to Australia for
six months with her small daughter and made several radio
programmes in the Outback for Radio 4 and the World
Service.
John
relocated to the North East after 11 years of magazine and
print editing, commissioning and production in London, to
take up residence with his partner and pursue a freelance
career as a print and website editor. He is a former editor
of film business publication Moving
Pictures,
which
was a sister title to Hollywood showbiz bible
Variety.
The magazine kept him on the road for much of the year,
publishing daily editions at most of the major film
festivals and markets in Europe and the US.