Eleanor McDowall
Eleanor is a Director at Falling Tree Productions. She is the series producer of BBC Radio 4’s Short Cuts, which won the Gold Award for Best Radio Podcast at the British Podcast Awards in both 2017 and 2018.
Her documentary work has been broadcast across the BBC networks as well as in international strands including This American Life (WBEZ), on NRK and in UnFictional (KCRW). In 2011 she received a Silver Sony Award for Best News Special as the co-producer on The Reunion: Hurricane Katrina; in 2016 her documentary A Dancer Dies Twice received a Special Commendation at the Prix Europa as well as the Whicker’s World Foundation ‘Audio Recognition Award’ and in 2017 The Enemy Within won the Gold Award for Best Factual Storytelling at the Radio Academy’s ARIAs.
She has helped to pioneer animated radio in the UK with her work on Short Cuts forming the basis of the talk ‘Making Radio Visible’ at 2014’s International Features Conference and she has appeared as a speaker at CPH:Dox, Third Coast International Audio Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest and Open City Documentary Festival.
In her spare time she runs Radio Atlas – an English-language home for subtitled audio from around the world. Radio Atlas received a Special Commendation at the Prix Europa in 2016.
