Who are we?

Following a 25-year career in BBC Radio Nicola Barranger set up Bright Sounds when she discovered that more and more websites are demanding audio broadcasting.

Using her vast production skills in the arts and in general features, she knew that the human voice can relay information in a way that print can only touch on.

Nicky has worked as a producer and presenter, mainly with BBC World Service and more recently with BBC Radio 4.

In that time she has interviewed a wealth of famous names including Dame Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Sian Philips, the late Sir John Mills, Michael Palin, Arthur Miller, Richard Eyre, Kate Mosse, Martin Bell, Ruth Rendell, and JK Rowling. Even more interesting though has been the thousands of lesser well know individuals – everyone has a story to tell.

Working in documentary radio, Nicky has covered subjects ranging from the problems of retiring from a life in ballet, to the Biafran war via the life of the filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock.

She has won a Race in the Media award from the Commission for Racial Equality.

She is the voice of Vision Magazine for RNIB – the main charity in the UK for blind and partially sighted people and she is a founding trustee of Street Child Africa – the only charity in the UK solely dedicated to helping children on the streets of Africa.

To find out more about Street Child Africa go to www.streetchildafrica.org.uk

Bright Hammond - Yes his name really is Bright, it was his father’s and his grandfather’s name but nobody really knows how it all came about.

Bright is BBC trained broadcast engineer who has worked at the famous Lime Grove studios. From there he headed a team of field engineers for Sony and then became chief engineer for Pepper the post-production company in Soho - at the heart of London’s medialand.

He was also a founding Trustee of Street Child Africa