Ian Penman (producer)

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Not to be confused with British writer, music journalist and critic Ian Penman.

Ian Penman (died March 2021) was a British

radio broadcaster, television producer, director, actor and scriptwriter who also worked as a print and online journalist under the byline Ian Ravendale.[1][2]

Career history

North East journalist and producer Ian Penman began working for BBC's

Border TV and the independent sector, working with Carol Vorderman, Muriel Gray, Janet Street-Porter and many others. He also ran River City Productions, the production wing of Stonehills Studios
, the North East's largest independent facilities company.

Penman was Course Leader and main lecturer of

freelance PR and media awareness training for industry, often for the Media Plus organisation. He has also taught the Media Marketing module to the University of Sunderland
's Media Production MA intake.

Penman also undertook freelance corporate video scriptwriting and production work, often in conjunction with the Newcastle-based Lodestone Productions company. This included producing, directing, presenting and conducting the interviews for "Vox and Rugs and Rock n' Roll", the first sell-through DVD for The Bootleg Beatles.

Most recently, under his 'Ian Ravendale' byline Penman freelanced for a variety of music magazines including Classic Rock, AOR, The Word Vive Le Rock, Iron Fist, Fireworks, Record Collector, Classic Pop, Vinyl Guru, R&R Life, The Sunderland Post and American Songwriter, among others. He also contributed articles to travel, crime, nostalgia and general publications including Living Spain, True Crime, Master Detective, Best Of British and Cycling World. Penman had a large archive of music interviews that he conducted with bands and soloists in the 1970s and 1980s and some of these have recently been appearing on the Rock's Backpages site credited to Ian Ravendale.

References

  1. ^ "Classic Rock | Louder". Classic Rock Magazine. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  2. ^ "RIP The Word magazine". The Telegraph. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  3. ISBN 978-0-520-25310-0
    . Retrieved 27 February 2011.
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