The Press Awards| Best News Podcast
Sensitive rather than sensationalist, this documentary podcast allows the subjects to add colour and emotion on top of the host's assured reporting and knowledge. A strong edit cleverly hooks listeners in, working backwards to learn the whole story.
"This is a must-listen series"
Miranda Sawyer, The Guardian
Bed of Lies 1: Read full review.
"Highly recommended"
Miranda Sawyer, The Guardian
Bed of Lies 2: Read full review.
"Immensely powerful"
Falling Tree Radio
"Loving this Entebbe doc, had totally missed the Netanyahu dimension"
Jeremy Vine, BBC broadcaster
"Fantastic piece"
Matt Frei, presenter and broadcaster
Sunday Times: Radio pick of the day.
Paul Donovan
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"Coherent, believable and often humorous narrative."
The Radio Times
"Voices brilliantly edited and intercut from the radio archives." The Daily Mail
"This was a delicious confection"
Gillian Reynolds, radio critic, The Telegraph
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"This is what radio was invented for. Brilliant"
Dominic Waghorn, Sky News
"This was very ingenious...and beautifully pulled off."
Tom Sutcliffe, Radio 4 broadcaster and journalist
"It's 28 minutes of complete delight, deftness and wizardry...you gasp in admiration. It's genuinely a work of art" Jane Garvey, presenter, Radio 4
"Shoah in Jerusalem was what British radio does well and so often we take it for granted, the portrayal of a personal experience that carries much wider significance....a perfectly judged piece"
Gillian Reynolds, radio critic, The Telegraph
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Shortlisted for Whickers World Foundation Audio award 2016. Read what the judges said.
Shoah in Jerusalem is a wonderful programme, such a deft mix of soundscape and testimony with just the right balance between the journalistic and the personal. All the elements of this piece combined to create something much bigger; the music, the pacing and the consistency of the information were compelling"
Alan Hall, radio documentary producer and founder of Falling Tree Productions.
"This was just beautifully made. Jonathan Freedland is hugely knowledgeable, yet doesn’t overcrowd the piece. Musically, holding just one note throughout a particular scene meant that you could feel the tension, and then it was dropped to give you release."
Kim Normanton, Radio Producer.
"If you like adventurous speech radio, can I recommend Between The Ears on BBC Radio 3? Tonight's edition worked on so many midsummer levels..."
Ian McMillan, poet and broadcaster
"I loved A Beastly Midsummer's Night. One of radio's most powerful effects is 'intimacy'. The listener can be drawn into the web and become part of a shared conversation or experience. This is very true of this lovely documentary in the BBC Radio 3 series of adventurous radio programmes, Between The Ears"
Piers Plowright, award-winning BBC feature maker
"Sarah understands how to evoke a rich sense of place and social history through dynamic story telling. Through her skilful production of interviews with local people, she pulls out narratives that she weaves with music and site specific ambience, which all makes for a very powerful onsite listening experience.
Her continued professional and creative approach means that we often collaborate, most recently on apps for the City of London Visitor Trail, the Jewish Museum and Battersea Power Station"
Jo Reid, Managing Director, Calvium, app developers
"Sarah Peters has the rare ability of regularly unearthing great stories. Sarah also has the skill - shared only by great producers - of encouraging people to tell their stories in the most compelling way. She has a great journalistic eye, excellent judgment, and a fine ear for sound. Sarah's radio features are the only programmes that always move me, and always make me think."
Iain Chambers, Executive producer and co-founder
Open Audio
"Sarah's work on the Sounds Jewish podcast for the Guardian is without doubt some of the best audio we have ever produced and along with presenter Alan Dein she evolved this podcast into one that captured the poetry of peoples' experiences, that mapped the diversity of Jewish lives. Comparable to This American Life, Sarah's podcasts left a legacy of evergreen audio on the Guardian site that continues to engage our users"
Jason Phipps, Head of Audio, Guardian
"Working with Sarah is a joy. She combines a fierce intelligence with an unerring ear for what makes story compelling. She can bring humour and warmth to the most challenging of subjects. She quickly grasped what we needed on every occasion and delivered on time with both professionalism and creative flair. She was also open to new ideas and happy to make changes, working with us at every step of the way.
I would not hesitate for an instant to work with her again."
Abigail Morris, Chief Executive Jewish Museum
I've worked with Sarah on a range of productions and they have always been stand-out, never mundane. She is a rare combination of journalist and artist, able to dissect complex and difficult subjects with sensitivity and maturity and confect them into gripping, often beautiful, pieces.
Peregrine Andrews, Sound Editor and Producer
Moving Air