“Eve is an exceptional producer and storyteller weaving narratives with intelligence, flair and deep sensitivity.” Tony Phillips, former Commissioning Editor at BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service.
A Brighton-based radio documentary and podcast producer/exec producer, I’ve been making programmes for BBC Radio 4 and the World Service for nearly 20 years. With a background in history and international relations, my focus is on solutions journalism and storytelling.
I’m currently the series producer of a new podcast for BBC Radio 4, When It Hits the Fan. Hosted by former editor of The Sun David Yelland and the late Queen’s former press secretary Simon Lewis, it looks at what’s really going on behind the week’s biggest headlines. A Raconteur Production for BBC Radio 4, stories we’ve covered so far include the manosphere that’s come out in support of Russell Brand, the Murdoch succession, and why the American rightwing is scared of Taylor Swift. Listen on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts.
I’ve been the series producer of Positive Thinking for BBC Radio 4 and My Perfect City/My Perfect Country on the BBC World Service, and my production credits span everything from economics, psychiatry and politics, to education, history and the arts. To date, my programme-making has taken me across five continents to countries including Angola, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Paraguay, South Korea and Vietnam. Australia is proving elusive…
BBC radio career highlights include the recent Radio 4 series Dementia: Unexpected Stories of the Mind, uncovering the personal impact of rare forms of dementia; recording a series of documentaries in Iraq about persecuted minorities; travelling to the Chaco thorn forest in Paraguay to report on the rapid deforestation of one of the world’s last great wildernesses; and making some of the first programmes for Radio 4 investigating the international aid industry.
As a producer on Politico’s Westminster Insider podcast, highlights included a reactive episode on the death of the Queen, going behind the scenes of the gripping soap opera that was Diary of a Tory Conference Meltdown, and finding out what it’s really like to work for an MP.
Over the last months it’s been my privilege to work with host Curtis James on his podcast Class Divide, which exposes the deep inequality of our school system in Brighton and Hove, but also across the UK.
A freedom of information request from education campaign group Class Divide revealed that only 37% of young people in East Brighton achieved basic GCSE grades, compared with 69% of kids in the rest of the city in 2019. East Brighton is in the top 10% least economically advantaged areas in the country and 43% of children living in the ward live in poverty.
The series follows the lives of a family from Whitehawk, whose stories highlight the difference a good education can make to life chances. All episodes are now available wherever you get your podcasts.
Curtis James with Dr Carlie Goldsmith and sound designer Simon James, recording in Whitehawk, East Brighton
Recording with Geraint and his wife Jacqui. Geraint has frontotemporal dementia, which results in a profound transformation in behaviour and personal identity.
Recently repeated on BBC Radio 4… I produced the five-part series Dementia: Unexpected Stories of the Mind, in which neurologist Jules Montague and William Miller go into the homes of people with rare dementias, to discover that dementia is not what we think it is. And on the BBC World Service I travelled to New York with William Miller to go behind the scenes of the iconic downtown restaurant Balthazar for In the Studio: Keith McNally.
Recording with director of operations Erin Wendt in Balthazar’s kitchens.
From the archives…
In April 2019 I recorded three programmes on location in Iraqi Kurdistan. For Heart and Soul on the BBC World Service I made the two-part series Iraq’s Religious Minorities: Exodus and Extinction.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csz4bh
In the first programme, Kaka’i: Our Fight to Survive, I had unique access to people of this ancient Kurdish religion, who are being killed by Islamic fundamentalists for not being Muslim. They have kept their faith secret for thousands of years. Here they tell their story for the very first time to help raise awareness of the threat they face.
In The Last Christians in Iraq? I travelled to the Ninevah Plain to document how Islamic terrorists have driven Iraq’s Christians from their ancient homeland. These are some of the oldest continuous Christian communities in the world, and we met families in the town of Alqosh (below) who can trace their ancestry there back 2,000 years. But some predict there may be no Christians left in Iraq in 20 years as most have fled the country.
And in Art of Now: Music of the Kaka’i (BBC Radio 4, June), the Kaka’i shared the secret music of their faith. It is central to their faith, and much of it is claimed to be thousands of years old, but it makes the Kaka’i a target for Islamic extremists in their Iraqi homeland.
Catch up online with some of my favourite broadcasts on BBC Radio 4… Parkland: One Year On, reflecting on the achievements of the March for Our Lives gun-reform movement in America a year after the Parkland High School shooting; A History of Delusions, a ten-part series presented by Daniel Freeman and co-produced with Victoria Shepherd; Cassandras of the Crash – an occasionally heated debate between four economists who predicted the 2008 crash no one else saw coming, with Aditya Chakrabortty in the chair; and the 150th special edition of The Reunion on BBC Radio 4, where we brought together four survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
And from the archives…..
With poet Ko Un, Gangwha Island, South Korea
With Edward Stourton outside the Kibera slum in Nairobi making Inside the Aid Industry for Radio 4
In the Chaco forest, Paraguay, recording Swimming With Piranhas with Mike Greenwood
Recording Return to Angola with Mary Harper in Luanda
eve streeter 
Thank you for the piece on Africa’s revolutions. It brings wisdom to a crucial time of my life.
brêno