Avril Lethbridge was trained at the Webber Douglas School of Dramatic Art. She has had a wide-ranging career in all aspects of theatre, events and visitor attractions. She has staged many events for the National Trust, Chatsworth House for the Duke of Devonshire and has choreographed a dance drama of JCBs as well as creating a children's party to raise money for the new Oxford Children's Hospital.

Sound production has been Avril's main interest and great love and she has worked with many voice-overs on all-star productions. She has also edited and abridged a variety of audio books ranging from Fungus the Bogey Man by Raymond Briggs to various titles for Mills and Boon.

Chris Braclik of Soundtrack Productions, a specialist practitioner in sound design and application. He is renowned for production of soundtracks for Son et Lumière and for location recording of music, especially opera. He has worked on many spectacular productions, on both river and land, including Time and the Thames, National Trust productions and many others.

Chris is a member of the Institute of Broadcast Sound, and his opera recordings have been acknowledged by the industry as some of the best, with a Grammy and two Gramophone Nominations for best CD.

Freddie Meynell is an independent Event Manager & Consultant but his contribution to the Sound Biography team is through his musical background. He first learned piano at the age of nine but always liked the organ best. He went to the Royal College of Music and Blackheath Conservatoire of Music but was told that he'd probably end up conducting the band on the end of Brighton Pier. He played organ in bands for 8 years and this ability to entertain is still at the heart of the events that he creates to this day. Listen out for some of his musical contributions on our Words & Music page.

Fiona Braclik, a graduate of Film & Drama from Reading University, with eleven years' experience of listening to people's life stories, as Registrar of Henley-on-Thames.

Jennie Welsh worked for over 15 years in the Department of Typography at Reading University. Now retired, she works from home as a freelance designer and also enjoys listening to people in her capacity at Sound Biography.