David Prest is the Founder and Managing Director of Whistledown, which has been producing podcasts and radio programmes for over twenty years. One of the original UK based “radio indies”, Whistledown has won numerous international awards, most recently at the 2024 British Podcast Awards for Press Play Turn On, The 2024 Radio Times Impact Award for The Great Post Office Trial and a New York Radio Festival Award for The Black 14.

 

The company is best known for making long form narrative documentaries for the likes of Audible and the BBC, as well as regular Radio 4 programmes like Feedback and The Reunion. In February this year, Whistledown launched its own slate of podcasts, headed by The Lulu Podcast, fronted by the sixties pop legend, Lulu.