Career overview
Bruce trained as a Dramatherapist (1992) and Counsellor (2010) working in the NHS, education and private practice. Latterly he was the college counsellor for Tower Hamlets College in London for 8 years and currently supervises Dramatherapy students on the MA Dramatherapy training at University of Roehampton. He now divides his time between radio and therapy.
In 2014 he began to develop The Novel Game as a comedy panel show format with the late Nicholas Parsons. In 2018 he started a monthly magazine show, Mental Health Matters, for Brighton's Radio Reverb which includes a developing format, The Dedication Game.
Following expert tuition and an MA in Radio Documentary Production at the University of Western England, Bruce was one of the five winners of the Charles Parker Award 2019 for the Best Student Radio Feature with The Flapper - the (partial) history of one family told through one object. He was one of three runners up for the 2020 prize with The Map of Keynsham
In 2014 he began to develop The Novel Game as a comedy panel show format with the late Nicholas Parsons. In 2018 he started a monthly magazine show, Mental Health Matters, for Brighton's Radio Reverb which includes a developing format, The Dedication Game.
Following expert tuition and an MA in Radio Documentary Production at the University of Western England, Bruce was one of the five winners of the Charles Parker Award 2019 for the Best Student Radio Feature with The Flapper - the (partial) history of one family told through one object. He was one of three runners up for the 2020 prize with The Map of Keynsham
Testimonial, Andy Cartwright, Soundscape Productions
Production CV
Technical skills
· Proficient in Adobe Audition, Adobe Premiere Rush, Headliner, & Weebly
· Working knowledge of Myriad playout & Cleanfeed
· Live, As Live studio recording and home studio pre-records
· Podcast hosting & distribution to planned social media schedule
· Post-production & mastering for broadcast
· Proficient in remote working with un-techsavvy people using Zoom & tape sync
Production skills
· Radio drama direction and recording on location & studio with professional, amateur and child actors.
· 6 years production of comedy panel show including location recording
· Pitching documentary, podcast, formats to national & local radio
· Research, development, scripting, talent booking, contracts, budgeting
· Segment production: interviewing artists, professionals & activists
People skills
· Project management using Trello, Google drive and social media co-working
· Artist mentoring and facilitating groups in voluntary sector
· 27 years’ clinical experience as Dramatherapist & Counsellor in NHS, education and social care settings
· Proficient in Adobe Audition, Adobe Premiere Rush, Headliner, & Weebly
· Working knowledge of Myriad playout & Cleanfeed
· Live, As Live studio recording and home studio pre-records
· Podcast hosting & distribution to planned social media schedule
· Post-production & mastering for broadcast
· Proficient in remote working with un-techsavvy people using Zoom & tape sync
Production skills
· Radio drama direction and recording on location & studio with professional, amateur and child actors.
· 6 years production of comedy panel show including location recording
· Pitching documentary, podcast, formats to national & local radio
· Research, development, scripting, talent booking, contracts, budgeting
· Segment production: interviewing artists, professionals & activists
People skills
· Project management using Trello, Google drive and social media co-working
· Artist mentoring and facilitating groups in voluntary sector
· 27 years’ clinical experience as Dramatherapist & Counsellor in NHS, education and social care settings
Broadcast & Commissioned work
Broadcast & Commissioned
Rulebreakers (BBC World Service, August 2020)
Assistant producer on 28-minute profile of Lauri Love, the computer hacker who successfully fought extradition to the US on the grounds of its unsafe treatment of people with disabilities.
I Say A Little Prayer (in development)
5-minute reflections on guiding mottos, quotations and prayers. We meet ordinary people and hear their daily meditations.
Croydon Handbag (Museum of Croydon, Summer 2020)
'We're off to see a man about a handbag' 4 queer nuns meet an 84-year-old LGBT activist
The Map of Keynsham (BBC Radio 4 Extra, Summer 2020)
2020 Charles Parker Prize Runner-up
What really happened to a much-loved illuminated town map and my childhood sense of place?
The Novel Game podcast (7 eps, April 2020)
Comedy panel format with Robin Ince, Fenella Fudge, Marian Pashley & Stuart Flynn.
The Novel Game - Last Chapter (7 eps, April 2020)
Extra content show with studio guests, interviews & archive
Culture Shock (Ujima Radio in Bristol, April 2019 to present)
Co-producer & presenter on 2-hour live arts and culture magazine with BAME focus.
12 Communities, 1 Bristol (BCfm in Bristol, August 2019)
Hillfields 100. Documentary celebrating 100 years of council housing in Bristol.
New Storytellers – The Flapper (BBC Radio 4, July 2019)
A memorial to a much-missed matriarch told through a single household object. One of the five winners of the 2019 Charles Parker prize.
Shroukie: Dancing Queer (Ujima Radio, February 2019)
Profile of a refugee electronics engineer who performs as a bearded belly dancer to raise funds for queer rights back home
Mental Health Matters (Radio Reverb in Brighton, 12 x 30m, January to December 2018)
Producer & host on monthly local magazine.
The Dedication Game (Radio Reverb in Brighton, 12 x 30m, January to December 2018)
Host of formatted music and personal narrative show
Rulebreakers (BBC World Service, August 2020)
Assistant producer on 28-minute profile of Lauri Love, the computer hacker who successfully fought extradition to the US on the grounds of its unsafe treatment of people with disabilities.
I Say A Little Prayer (in development)
5-minute reflections on guiding mottos, quotations and prayers. We meet ordinary people and hear their daily meditations.
Croydon Handbag (Museum of Croydon, Summer 2020)
'We're off to see a man about a handbag' 4 queer nuns meet an 84-year-old LGBT activist
The Map of Keynsham (BBC Radio 4 Extra, Summer 2020)
2020 Charles Parker Prize Runner-up
What really happened to a much-loved illuminated town map and my childhood sense of place?
The Novel Game podcast (7 eps, April 2020)
Comedy panel format with Robin Ince, Fenella Fudge, Marian Pashley & Stuart Flynn.
The Novel Game - Last Chapter (7 eps, April 2020)
Extra content show with studio guests, interviews & archive
Culture Shock (Ujima Radio in Bristol, April 2019 to present)
Co-producer & presenter on 2-hour live arts and culture magazine with BAME focus.
12 Communities, 1 Bristol (BCfm in Bristol, August 2019)
Hillfields 100. Documentary celebrating 100 years of council housing in Bristol.
New Storytellers – The Flapper (BBC Radio 4, July 2019)
A memorial to a much-missed matriarch told through a single household object. One of the five winners of the 2019 Charles Parker prize.
Shroukie: Dancing Queer (Ujima Radio, February 2019)
Profile of a refugee electronics engineer who performs as a bearded belly dancer to raise funds for queer rights back home
Mental Health Matters (Radio Reverb in Brighton, 12 x 30m, January to December 2018)
Producer & host on monthly local magazine.
The Dedication Game (Radio Reverb in Brighton, 12 x 30m, January to December 2018)
Host of formatted music and personal narrative show
| Bruce Guthrie Audio CV |
At the very beginning
Avonside Television was founded in 1982 by two 15 year olds, Bruce Guthrie & Giles Booth in the small west country village of Saltford - or Puddington-Upon-Sponge as it's known.
Like many teenagers, they wanted their own ITV franchise (watch out HTV West) and started to experiment with VHS recording, amateur radio, computer graphics as well as our very small range pirate radio station, Radio Delta. Projects included an animated cartoon strip, Dr Dilemma, as well as recording the productions of Saltford Amateur Dramatic Society.
In the following 37 years Giles worked as a BBC studio manager for the World Service and now manages the educational content commissioning and website publishing for Micro:bit Educational Foundation. Whilst not directly involved in Avonside now, he has kindly designed the Avonside logos and has given his blessing to Bruce's radio doings...
Like many teenagers, they wanted their own ITV franchise (watch out HTV West) and started to experiment with VHS recording, amateur radio, computer graphics as well as our very small range pirate radio station, Radio Delta. Projects included an animated cartoon strip, Dr Dilemma, as well as recording the productions of Saltford Amateur Dramatic Society.
In the following 37 years Giles worked as a BBC studio manager for the World Service and now manages the educational content commissioning and website publishing for Micro:bit Educational Foundation. Whilst not directly involved in Avonside now, he has kindly designed the Avonside logos and has given his blessing to Bruce's radio doings...
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Avonside Television
Giles and I made these continuity announcements in the summer of 1983 Sounds like a jolly morning what with Margaret Rutherford in Murder She Said followed by that day's episode of Doctor Dilemma |
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