Create Ructions: Podcast It. Film It. Own It.

TIME & LOCATION

Wednesday 12 November, 4:00 pm

End Time: 5:00 pm

The Works

About

In this lively 40-minute session, Jo Meek (The Pitcairn Trials, Wondery), Rachel Hooper (The Brighton Bomb, Walk on Air/BBC Radio 4) and Jane Gogan (The Witness – In His Own Words, RTÉ/Yellow Path) join Clare McGinn (Napoleon’s Nose Creative Media) to unpack how your powerful stories can travel across funders, borders and formats.

Expect sharp, behind-the-scenes insight into how deals are made, why holding your IP matters, and how podcasting can act as both a creative laboratory and a launchpad for film and TV. A must-attend for anyone in Northern Ireland’s screen and audio industries ready to think – and produce – in 360°.

Chair

Clare McGinn

SPONSOR

Panel

Clare McGinn

Founder and CEO, Napoleon’s Nose Creative Media,

Clare McGinn is Founder and CEO of Napoleon’s Nose Creative Media, launched in 2025 as an independent production and consultancy house. A former BBC executive with 30 years’ experience in London and Bristol, she led award-winning teams in live radio, crafted documentary, natural history and audio drama, and later worked as a creative and commercial strategist for BBC Studios Audio. Her credits include The Food Programme, A History of Ideas, Evil Genius, Unreal, Bloodlines and Fairy Meadow.

Jo Meek

Podcast Maker, Executive Producer

Jo Meek is an independent podcast maker and executive producer with over 20 years’ experience across BBC, ABC and commercial audio. Founder of Manchester-based Sparklab Productions and former Content Director at Audio Always, she led the British Podcast Award-winning The Pitcairn Trials and other acclaimed factual series, championing inventive storytelling, ethical journalism and impactful partnerships for UK and global audiences across investigative narrative projects from concept through to delivery worldwide.

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Jane Grogan

Producer

Jane Gogan is an independent producer across podcasts, film, and TV drama. Formerly Head of Drama at RTÉ (2006–2018), she’s more recently produced the acclaimed podcasts The Stand with Eamon Dunphy and The Witness: In His Own Words, which she’s now developing as a major feature film through her company Yellow Path Productions.

Rachel Hooper

Creative Director, Walk on Air films

Rachel is Creative Director of Walk on Air films, a BAFTA nominated Belfast indie specialising in premium factual content for audio and TV. She has a track record in sensitive, access based films, working collaboratively with contributors to find stories hidden in plain sight. Rachel started her career as a journalist in the BBC Belfast newsroom in 1996, and then ran the BBC NI audio docs unit before moving into film and TV as a director, producer and development exec. Recent WOA credits include ‘Death of a Showjumper”, a 3 part box set for Sky , the critically acclaimed ‘Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland’, a co production with KEO films for BBC/ PBS and ‘The Brighton Bomb’ a 10 x 15’ podcast for BBC Sounds which has just won gold at the British Podcast awards.