unedited: began in 2010 when Ideas Genius (a blog for creatives) launched to share business tips and insight for unsigned artists, and aspiring media types. In 2011, the UK riots persuaded Bernard that there wasn’t enough representation of voices in British media, and the seed of Unedited was planted. However, Bernard worked for BBC Audio & Music and loved his day job. Ideas Genius began as a small digital video development company, in 2013, with Gemma Feare and JJ Jemiyo, but with little commercial success. Four years later, Bernard returned to his roots and invited Andrew Spence (formerly radio presenter 3Style), a DJ rival from Birmingham, and Cass Denton, a friend from ‘The Warner Bros Street Team’, to join an audio focussed company. Unedited became a trading name of Ideas Genius Limited, with Andrew and Bernard as joint directors. Now you’re caught up.
Bernard crafts our award-winning formats like Sounds of Black Britain, 1Xtra’s Throwback Party, and Pilot Season. With eight Radio Academy Awards and a Rose D’Or nomination, he consistently delivers excellence. Bernard captivated audiences with his sold-out presentation, 7 Secrets of Immersive Storytelling, at the London Podcast Show in 2022. As vice-chair of Audio UK, he champions representation & inclusion and IP ownership.
Pat is an award-winning journalist and creative leader with over 30 years’ experience, working at major broadcasters at home and abroad. A Former Chief Creative Officer at the BBC and President/General Manager of US cable network, Travel Channel Media, he is currently Chair of the Cardiff University governing body, Non-Executive Director at ITV Studios Ltd. He manages his consultancy services and creative projects at his company, Skin In The Game Studios Ltd.
Emma started working in youth radio at 14 with work experience at Bristol’s Galaxy 101. She made herself indispensable, leading to a career in broadcasting that spans 25 years.
Since leaving the BBC Emma has led many projects, always focusing on diverse stories and talent including, Punch Records, Homelands – Going Back to our Roots, Floor Sixx, Nexxt Step for the Mayor of London, and Our Black History Heroes – a 20 part documentary series for CBBC.
Alongside being Unedited’s Head Of Production, Emma currently produces the BBC Sounds/BBC 1Xtra award-winning show… 1Xtra’s Throwback Party.
Sefa Nkyi is an award winning audio producer and renowned voice over artist. Starting her voiceover career in 2012, after winning a voiceover contract with London’s leading voice over agency Hobsons.
Coming from a radio background, Sefa previously worked at BBC 1Xtra as a Broadcast Assistant and then Producer before moving on to Reprezent radio where she began teaching radio broadcasting to young aspiring presenters. Sefa is an award-winning Producer, working on Amazon Music’s +44 Podcast, BBC 1Xtra TALKS and Spotify’s critically acclaimed series ‘Sounds Of Black Britain’.
unedited: works with well-known brands such as Spotify, Amazon, BBC, ACAST, talkSPORT and personalities, as well as up and coming Independent cutting edge presenters and producers of radio programmes, podcasts and audio documentaries.
unedited: has a visual catalogue that continues to grow with commissions from CBBC, talkSPORT, THE PFA and additional content for our Independent podcast partners. Whether stand-alone or as part of an audio format, our sound and vision complement each other.
Our bespoke social media campaigns focus on delivering the perfect multimedia content to express your passions to your audience. We help you engage your target demographic as well as new untapped audiences—without being constrained by budgets.
This includes training for presenting, producing and editing. We provide these in the form workshops and training courses for many corporate companies in the UK. The list of companies is steadily growing and includes Unedited being lead facilitators for Spotify UK & Ireland, US and Sweden’ s ‘Sound Up’ initiative, which aims to raise up the next generation of podcasters through education, workshops and support. The Internet Watch Foundation, Radio Plus Coventry and the BBC.
We also develop ideas for radio shows, tv programmes and podcasts, for a stand alone episode or series. Our experienced team provide top line ideas, worked up proposals, pilot episodes, audio mock-ups, Industry insights and content plans.
