Media communications training

Tailor-made services

All courses and podcasts are designed to meet the exact needs and goals of our clients.

Online or in-person

Training courses can be delivered anywhere in the worldor via Zoom/MS Teams.

Friendly and caring

Small enough to care; big enough to cope with your communication needs.

A few things we’re great at

We are a B2B media consultancy and use our BBC experience to help global businesses
communicate effectively with clients and colleagues.

Podcasts and Videos

High quality, expertly-written and produced audio and video podcasts.

Audio editing
Story-board production
On-location filming
Drone filming (authorised drone pilots)
Video editing

Media Training

Interactive training, focused on your key messages with incisive interviewing techniques.

Probing questions
Bridging skills
Telling your story, your way
Body language
What to wear

Presentation Skills

Building your confidence and honing your skills to engage your audience.

What to say
How to say it
Body language and movement
Building passion and personality
Holding the audience

Find out how we can help you !

Other services available…

Call us to support your conference needs, market testing, recruitment or just telling your story.

Facilitation

Brand testing

Assessment days (HR)

On-site reporting

Established in 2004 by
BBC-trained journalist Adam Kirtley.

As its name suggests, Hand Made Productions provides a tailor-made service from a hand-picked team of media experts.

Adam Kirtley began his career on a prestigious post-graduate BBC training scheme and has broadcast across its UK and global network from 10 Downing Street, Westminster, the London Stock Exchanges, New York City and European capitals.

He founded Hand Made Productions in 2004 in response to requests to share his knowledge and experience with businesses across the globe.

His wealth of experience and expertise is in high demand across the UK, Europe, the Middle East and East Asia.

Click here to listen to Adam’s BBC radio broadcasts on SoundCloud.

Click here to visit our YouTube channel.

Testimonials

Hand Made Productions works with major global companies through to small local charities. We provide the same bespoke service to all our clients.

I will be more than happy to have a conversation with a journalist now as have all the tools that Adam taught me.

Everything Adam covered was so useful and I will certainly be using all the hints and tips. Was lovely just having two of us in the session as had more time to focus on our areas of expertise and the questions that could be asked. A great experience.

Karen

Grant Thornton

I have worked with Adam for more than eight years, entrusting the training of senior managers and senior clinicians from acute, primary, commissioning and public health backgrounds into their
hands. Training is delivered with good humour but exacting standards, and feedback from delegates has been 100% positive, 100% of the time. We have reaped the benefits during the handling of complex, challenging issues with the media.

Simon

Head of Communications, NHS

I’d give it a 10/10 and recommend it to others. It’s great to have experienced and knowledgeable people enabling others to have practical training. I feel more confident about engaging with the media now than I did before the training.

Katie

Kids in Need of Defence

Adam Kirtley is the first media trainer I go to to prepare clients for all manner of media messaging.
With his BBC Business background, he is able to prepare clients to answer all kinds of questions usually starting with the toughest so they gain some bullet proof skills! He’s fun to work with and always extremely professional