Creative Director & Founder - DINES

Nick started his career as a Researcher, AP and Producer in Children’s TV with Carlton Television. Here, he began studio directing, before joining CBBC Presentation, then moving on to direct programmes including Tikkabilla and Newsround. Nick has specialised in fast paced, technically complex live programmes and worked for BBC News, TRT World and CNBC. He has directed live OB debate programmes, including The Press We Deserve for Thomson Reuters at the height of the UK phone hacking scandal, a Brexit debate featuring British Prime Minister David Cameron to launch Facebook Live in the UK, and Ask Attenborough for the Eden Channel. His forthcoming work in 2021 includes directing new sporting concept Aphetor in Greece, and directing Olympics coverage of Tokyo 2021 for Olympic Broadcasting Services. In this episode we catch up about the ins and outs of producing multi camera production, the mindset needed, the challenges and how Covid has impacted the industry.

7 Juni 202152min

Clive Lewis is a British Labour politician who has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 2015. He worked as a TV reporter for BBC News and served as an infantry officer with the Territorial Army. He served a three-month tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2009. He became shadow defence secretary in June 2016, and shadow business secretary in October 2016. He left the Shadow Cabinet in 2017 in protest over the Labour Party’s decision to trigger Article 50 to leave the EU, but rejoined the front bench a year later as shadow minister for sustainable economics. In this episode we talk about grassroots journalism, tribal politics, the Corbyn movement, his time in Afghanistan and the future for progressives.

31 Maj 202151min

Marco North is a filmmaker, photographer, author and musician based in Moscow, Russia. Born in Brooklyn, and educated at SUNY Purchase. In this episode we talk about the production and recent release of his award-winning episodic series Blackbetty. His recent debut album Heaven Get Behind Me, and his Songbird podcast, a brutally honest, behind the scenes look at the songwriting and recording process. We deep dive into a fascinating chat about the trials and tribulations of creative personal work, the mindset and attitude that goes with it and some of the frustrations that go with it. You can follow his work at marconorth.com

24 Maj 20211h 35min

Prior to the launch of Season 3, we have some words of wisdom and advice from filmmaker and musician, Marco North. New full episode on May 24th.

22 Maj 20212min

Prior to starting Season 3 of Grit, I caught up with Martin Ruby of Songbird Podcast for a little chat about the joy of podcasting.

18 Maj 20215min

Zoë is part of the writing team for Netflix’s new show Zero Chill. She also writes for Netflix teen-drama Free Rein and is a regular writer for Channel 4’s Hollyoaks, having written over 40 episodes. Zoë also writes for children’s drama such as CBBC and Netflix’s Worst Witch, CBBC’s The Dumping Ground and Disney’s comedy-drama-musical The Lodge. Zoë’s acting career has seen her star as a series regular Zoe Carpenter in Hollyoaks, web series Staff Room and numerous other roles and voiceover work. In this episode we discuss the writing process for a series and working in a writing team, with story conferences and pitching your ideas in the room to get episodes commissioned. We also explore acting jobs that required jumping out of planes and being entirely digitised for a smartphone app. Enjoy!

24 Mars 202156min

Zillah is an Emmy-nominated creative leader and strategist with a long and varied professional life in the media industry. Most recently as the Director of Content at Satore Studio. She was Commissioning Editor for Virtual Reality at the BBC and headed up the BBC VR Hub following being the Executive Editor for BBC Research & Development. In this episode we discuss innovation within media and journalism, how VR can change both the creative and production process along with the importance of critical thinking with emergent technology.

17 Mars 202153min

Lovise graduated a bachelor in media production in 2019 with internships at Kitchen in Oslo and Motlys on the NRK series Heimebane. Throughout her studies and upon graduation she worked as a web designer at Smart Media. She is now working as a UI/UX Designer at TRY Pearl in Oslo. In this episode we talk about the important and multi-faceted role of a UI/UX Designer, starting out in the industry, growing as a media professional and continuous development.

10 Mars 202155min