Leona Fensome
“I have been struck and am still in awe, everyday, seeing the DIY approach many women have taken to fulfill their aspirations of launching their audio work into the world.”
Leona Fensome
Leona is the Creative Director and Oral Historian of Inkslingers Media, an award-winning audio production company creating radio programmes, audio documentaries, and oral history collections from community heritage stories. She is a board member of AudioUK and on the MeCCSA Radio Studies Network panel.
She is a Projects Officer in the University of Bedfordshire’s, Culture and Community Engagement Team, part of Research and Innovation Services, working on heritage projects. She commenced her PhD in October 2023 and her research focuses on the socio-cultural history of student-led, community radio stations in super-diverse places, through life-story oral history.
She came to academia as a features journalist and community and public radio practitioner, having worked in BBC Radio 2 and 4 as a producer in magazine format programmes and as an operations and volunteer manager and producer/presenter in community radio.
Leona will be speaking on the How to Tell Stories That Matter Panel alongside Helen Parker, Ruth Barnes & Jo Youle at this year’s festival.