Name Jon Manel
Position Podcast Maker & Journalist
Company BBC
Country United Kingdom
Biography
Jon is a multi-award winning podcast maker, commissioner and investigative journalist. Since becoming the BBC’s first dedicated podcast editor in 2017, Jon has commissioned and helped to create a succession of original, innovative and highly successful podcasts. Jon brought together the BBC and Norway’s NRK to create the award-winning international hit, Death in Ice Valley and came up with the concept for the BBC’s first podcast in India, Kalki Presents: My Indian Life. His other commissions have included Goodbye to All This, The Comb, 13 Minutes to the Moon and 30 Animals That Made Us Smarter. He presented and created The Adoption, revealed the contents of British government papers on the Hillsborough football disaster and reported from inside the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay.