Steven is Overcoat's Creative Director and co-founder. He is known for audio documentaries that blend formal and narrative playfulness with factual storytelling that still winks at the BBC's mission to "inform, educate and entertain".
His feature “Tim Key and Gogol’s Overcoat” won the 2013 Prix Italia, and he’s made award-winning programmes on subjects from politics to sport, visual arts to history, comedy to poetry.

Michael Surcombe is Overcoat’s Managing Director, and co-founder. He has a track record of being at the cutting edge of technological innovation, combining a content-maker’s creative flair with an eye for the latest digital ideas.
A music specialist, he’s produced numerous key strands for the BBC including a role as launch producer for BBC Radio 3’s The Choir and long-time producer for Composer Of The Week.
He’s also a respected technology professional and trainer, and led BBC Wales’s innovation programme in audio, video and digital from 2014 before establishing his presence in the independent sector.

Selma is a senior broadcast journalist with 20 years experience of making and presenting radio documentaries for BBC Radio Wales and Radio 4. Her trademark is to use audio in a creative and textured way, to tell stories with emotional depth and strong news lines. She won a Wales Media Award for her intimate portrayal of one family’s experience of postpartum psychosis, and more recently she worked on a BBC podcast about Aberfan, and she produced and presented the BBC Radio Wales programme A Welsh Mountain College for the World for Overcoat Media. She is now looking for opportunities to put her audio storytelling skills to work for a range of new platforms, creating podcasts for both broadcasters and companies.

India is a journalist, podcaster, presenter and film maker. She has worked across the BBC in TV (BBC Three, BBC Stories and BBC World) and audio (Radio 4, the World Service, BBC 6Music). She helped launch, and was senior producer and co-host on, The Guardian's daily news podcast Today in Focus. She is now freelance and has produced multi part documentaries for Audible, BBC Studios, and BBC Radio 4. She's also worked with Doc Society on "Mothers of Invention" and with artist Eloise Moody on a series of audio experiences for museums in the UK. India produced the BBC World Service programme Instahappiness for Overcoat Media.

John is a British-born Pole with a French surname based in Warsaw. He has been in Poland since 2002 and has worked as a journalist and broadcaster since 2006, most of it at the English Section of Polish Radio, which he also managed for a while. John took a step back from international news broadcasting in 2015, deciding to move to the world of creative audio. At the beginning of 2020 John co-founded Free Range Productions with two good colleagues from my time at Polish Radio: Bartosz Panek and Jarosław Kociszewski. Overcoat Media have co-produced a number of programmes with Free Range Productions, including the BBC Radio 4 series The Bear Next Door.

Rosemary Baker is an award-winning audio producer, filmmaker and visual artist. Her critically acclaimed documentary and film work has appeared across the BBC and Channel 4.

Melvin Rickarby is a freelance producer of podcasts, radio and music recordings. As an in-house documentary specialist at the BBC for 20 years, he authored features on everything from natural history to business takeovers, jazz to Nordic culture. Recognised for a creative, crafted approach to audio, he now brings that expertise to radio and podcast projects for broadcasters and brands.

Ben is a hugely exciting, award winning young conductor who works with some of the world’s most prestigious orchestras. Ben has appeared on various TV programmes and Radio Shows, including Holst: The Planets with Professor Brian Cox, Channel 4’s Addicts’ Symphony and was one of the youngest conductors to be appointed to the BBC Philharmonic. Ben presented the BBC Radio 4 Archive on 4 Ministry of Fun.

Bartosz is a radio feature documentary maker and reporter with 20 years’ experience. Prize winner of Polish and international awards, including the Prix Italia for best radio documentary. He works with Free Range Productions, based in Poland, with whom Overcoat Media have co-produced numerous BBC programmes.

With twenty years experience in factual audio, Julia / Julia Johnson has made live radio and documentaries all over the world, from Washington D.C. to Moscow, Beirut to Beijing. Her most recent BBC Radio 4 series was the Overcoat production 'Pride or Prejudice: How we Read Now' and her commercial podcast clients include The Economist, Hauser & Wirth and The River Cafe.

Gareth Gwynn is a comedy writer, radio presenter and producer. He has written for The Now Show (BBC Radio 4), Have I Got News For You (BBC One) and his sitcom work includes Ankle Tag (BBC Radio 4) and Tourist Trap (BBC One Wales). He has presented several documentaries for BBC Radio 4 including “The Greatest Ever Faker” in which he met, interviewed and spent time with a real-life convicted fraudster, who was absolutely lovely. But then, that’s how they do it, isn’t it?