About Us

Square Dog Radio LLP is an independent radio production company formed in 2007 by two experienced Radio 4 freelance reporters and producers who made up one half of the quartet that set up Pennine Productions in 2000 -- now known as Pennine Productions (Archive) LLP. The original aim was to make programmes that weren't rooted in south-east England, either in conception or in production. So during the seven-year life of the old company we covered stories from northern England, Canada, Ukraine, Australia, South Africa, the Czech Republic, Austria, the USA, France, Canada, Russia, Namibia, Nepal and Guatemala. Most of those programmes were made for BBC Radio 4, with a few for World Service and Radio 3. In 2003 a legendary book producer joined the old company as a Consultant & Producer and continues to work with us in Square Dog Radio. Read on ...

Mark Whitaker won a Sony Silver Award in 2004 for his programme the Land of the Oval Ball. Before that he reported for over 50 editions of Radio 4's flagship documentary series File on 4, winning the silver Medical Radio Award in 1995 and the Bar Council Legal Journalist of the Year in 1999. Before going in to journalism he was an academic historian teaching in the UK and abroad. His broadcasting speciality is history in general and the history of sport in particular, though he has also presented a wide range of other features. He won almost half the commissions awarded to the old company and made 30 programmes for it. Click here for Mark's programme credits. He is currently working on a book, a sports history to be published in 2010, and he lives in West Yorkshire.

Mike Hally made numerous features for You & Yours and other Radio 4 'magazine' programmes in the early 90s, and has more recently produced editions of The Message and File on 4. He made 20 programmes for the old Pennine Productions. Journalism is a second career, after leaving the engineering industry behind in the late 80s. He now brings that experience, mixed with more recent studies in modern and oral history, to his productions for Square Dog. Early in 2004 he founded the Radio Independents Group, the trade body for independent radio production companies, was its first Chair, and is now the Treasurer. Click here for Mike's programme credits. His first book, Electronic Brains, was published in April 2005, and he lives in Scotland.

" Readings" Consultant: In a broadcasting career of more than 30 years with the BBC Gillian Hush produced talks, short stories and readings in a wide variety of genres. She was solely responsible for the Northern contributions to the Morning Story and later the Afternoon Story on Radio 4 for many years, selecting from unsolicited contributions and also commissioning established writers. She produced serials for Woman's Hour, Book at Bedtime and Storytime, and in the non-fiction field she was the producer of (among many other things) the Alan Bennett Diaries, which became one of the Radio Collection's most successful audio cassettes. Gillian lives in Manchester.

Square Dog Radio LLP is a Limited Liability Partnership
company number OC308257, registered at Companies House in Wales
registered office 54 Caunce Street, Blackpool FY1 3LJ