Tony Phillips, PhD

An experienced radio and podcasting creator whose career has taken him from producing, reporting and Commissioning Editor at BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4 to Vice President at WNYC Studios in New York, Tony Phillips as joined the iDeas Lab as an editorial and strategic consultant. At WNYC he created and developed A Piece of Work, made in partnership with MoMA, was the Executive Producer on Freakonomics Radio, and managed editorial partnerships. Most recently, Phillips wrote and reported an Archive on 4 for BBC Radio 4 on the tragic life of David Oluwale, a Nigerian migrant to Britain in the 1960s.

He is an executive producer with independent TV company Northern Town Productions, and part of the award-winning team who produced the Statues Redressed documentary film for Sky Arts questioning the presence, place and power of public statues. In 2022, Phillips completed his PhD at the University of East Anglia writing about audio, storytelling and the African diaspora.