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Seán Street has worked in radio since 1970. He began his career at BBC Radio Solent, later moving into the commercial sector when 2CR opened in Bournemouth, in 1980. Here he was Features Editor, leaving in 1987 to develop work as a freelance programme maker. Since that time he has made programmes for The BBC World Service, BBC Radios 2,3 and 4, and a number of commercial radio stations, including LBC in London.

Some recent programmes:

Landscape With Figure (with Alan Hall, Falling Tree Productions, for Radio 3, June, 2004)
A Microphone for the People (with Julian May, Radio 3, April 2005)
Poems from the Proms (with Julian May, Radio 3, August, 2005)
The Fisheries Broadcast (with Julian May, Radio 4, October, 2005)
This programme was also broadcast on CBC Radio 1, Newfoundland, Canada in November 2005.
Then – Now (with Andy Cartwright, Soundscape Productions for BBC Radio 4. January 9, 2006)
Not What It Used To Be -Nostalgia and the English (with Julian May, The Archive Hour, BBC Radio 4, March , 2006)
The Frisco Quake (with Alan Hall, Falling Tree Productions for Radio 4, 12 April, 2006) .

Current work includes :

Sean Street is working on a number of projects, among them two Radio 4 Archive Hour programmes: one about Marie Slocombe, the woman who has been hailed as the founder of the BBC Sound Archive, and one on the
history of the debate surrounding the existence of a channel tunnel linking Britain and France. April 2007 is the 50th anniversary of the creation of the foundation in 1957 of "Le Tunnel sous la Manche Study Group", which first recommended a structure similar to that which exists today. But the origins of the idea go back much further - to 1802. The programme explores the history of this fascinating project."