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ProfileWelcome to the Brideswell Associates web site. Brideswell was founded in the early 1990s by Leona Graham and Richard Elen as an umbrella for their independent activities, which range from media relations, writing and graphic design to conference organising, workshops, teaching/lecturing and radio/audio production. We also run a small publishing company, The Brideswell Press. You can read more about us on the "About" pages, while what we are doing currently or imminently can be found below.

In a nutshell, Richard is a technical writer editor, journalist, lecturer, broadcaster and producer with a special interest in pro audio, digital audio technology, virtual worlds and internet media. Leona comes from a Canadian academic background in English and has been organising conferences and giving workshops for many years on a range of topics including spirituality and the environment. Now read on…

  Environment

Mothering for the Environment Conference

Leona will be presenting a paper at this conference in Toronto, October 22-25.

Jun 17 2009

Connect / Community / Change

Connect/Community/Change (CCC) at the South Somerset Green Fair at Thorney Park nr Langport/Glastonbury, Somerset on Sunday 14 June 2009.

May 19 2009

  Workshops

Guidance: Creating A Pathway – workshop

Details of a workshop that Leona Graham will be presenting with Rhiannon Hanfman in June 2010 at the Findhorn Foundation, near Forres in Scotland.

Jun 23 2009

Mothering for the Environment Conference

Leona will be presenting a paper at this conference in Toronto, October 22-25.

Jun 17 2009

  Audio Production

A Voice in Digital Lives

Richard has been recording voiceovers for the British Library “Digital Lives” project.

May 20 2009

iPhys Series 2 gets the go-ahead

Following the success of the initial 23-part iPhys series, we’ve been commissioned by City of Sunderland College to create a new series of programmes on Biology.

May 04 2009

  Technology

“Beeching-style” BBC enquiry? You must be joking

ITN newscaster Alastair Stewart attacked the BBC at a CBI NW region dinner last night, suggesting that it would benefit from a “Beeching style enquiry” to assess whether its services are all really “necessary and viable”. What a bad idea.

Jul 03 2009

Radio and Britain’s digital future

If we’re keeping DAB, we need to upgrade it to use modern codecs. But why not skip all that and move the “radio space” to IP networks? However, you can’t do that until there is a national broadband infrastructure that will need a lot more than copper-based 2Mb/s. So until then, maybe keeping FM is the thing to do…

Jul 01 2009

  Transforming Politics

Standing for Election at a Critical Time

If you want fairness and justice and reform in the political sphere, vote Liberal Democrat in the Cambridgeshire County Council Elections on June 4.

May 19 2009

  Conferences

Two weeks to OpenTech 2009

Just two weeks to OpenTech 2009 on July 4 in London. I’m talking on how to do radio drama using Voice over IP (VoIP).

Jun 23 2009

Mothering for the Environment Conference

Leona will be presenting a paper at this conference in Toronto, October 22-25.

Jun 17 2009

  Broadcasting

“Beeching-style” BBC enquiry? You must be joking

ITN newscaster Alastair Stewart attacked the BBC at a CBI NW region dinner last night, suggesting that it would benefit from a “Beeching style enquiry” to assess whether its services are all really “necessary and viable”. What a bad idea.

Jul 03 2009