Pougatch Media
​Nobody helps you tell your story better
AUDIO MEMOIRS
The perfect gift to celebrate a significant birthday, anniversary or retirement.
At MemoirCast we can help you tell your story in the form of a relaxed and professional interview with one of our team of exceptional broadcasters. We ensure the highest production values so that you will end up with a broadcast version of your life story to share with friends and family.
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Fr Edward Corbould is interviewed by Mark Pougatch on turning 90
How often have you wished that those stories your grandparents told you had been written down or recorded? So many family tales have been lost in the past along with the voices of loved ones.
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​Our audio memoirs offer a unique opportunity to be interviewed about your life, your family, your work and your successes by an experienced broadcaster.
Between them Mark Pougatch, Aasmah Mir, Paddy O’Connell, Sybil Ruscoe, James Alexander-Sinclair and Cornelius Lysaght have interviewed everyone from prime ministers to actors, artists to musicians, celebrities to icons of sport, but what they all love most is hearing the extraordinary stories of everyday people.
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Engineered and produced by an experienced sound engineer to the highest standards, the result will be an audio memento that can be handed down the generations. It might be your grandmother talking about her memories of the war, how your grandfather built his business or your own life story.
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An excerpt from Annabel Leventon's interview about her victory in the witness box.
"When your interviewer has done all his homework and asks all the right questions in a fun, intelligent, super-relaxed environment, you find yourself discovering all kinds of things you didn’t know you thought. Mark was superb. His style is refreshing - direct, challenging, encouraging, responsive – everything you’d want an interviewer to be, without it feeling remotely like an interview. It turned out to be not only enormous fun, but very moving, too."
Annabel Leventon​
How It Works
​​This is very much a bespoke offering so we will hold your hand throughout the whole process. The audio memoirs usually take the form of a 45/50 minute relaxed interview with a professional broadcaster. This time length is only a guide and if the story takes longer to record then we will take as much time as needed.
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After you have chosen which broadcaster you would like – and we can of course advise you here - we begin with a meeting to pin down exactly what will be talked about during the interview. We can then either send a questionnaire for you to fill in - which is particularly useful for those people not used to sitting in front of a microphone - or you can just tell us what you’d like to talk about. If you have any articles or books that would help us with our research, this is the time to point us in that direction. We will put together a list of proposed questions for your approval which will serve as the backbone to the interview.
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We like to make the recording experience as comfortable as possible so we – the broadcaster, sound engineer and producer - will come to a location of your choice. The whole interview, including setting up, takes about two hours. We will send out a first cut for approval as it's very important that you're happy with it. You will receive two copies of the edited memoir on personalised USB sticks and can order more. The recording can also be made available online if that's something you’d like. If you want to make a private recording only to share with your closest family we will always respect your privacy.
As we only use experienced sound engineers and editors we can ensure the highest production values so that you will end up with a broadcast version of a life story. If you’d like us to quote, please get in touch.
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An excerpt from Andrew Baud's interview about his business.