About
LONGTRAIN AUDIO is a new collaboration between a talented team from the creative, media & publishing worlds to create life-changing, Christian audio books with a uniquely British flavour.
ALISTAIR BIRCH
Alistair trained as an actor at Huddersfield University (where Patrick Stewart is Chancellor). He’s just as much at home playing Fagin in the musical Oliver, directing Pinter, or acting in unscripted Commedia dell’arte productions.
An experienced stage actor, he’s more recently starred in productions of Secret Agent, The Lord of the Ringos and Peter Pan & the Pirates of the Caribbean.
Alistair regularly records voice-overs and reads the Bible live for Church of Christ the King, Brighton, UK, to rave feedback.
A love of listening to books and a passion to see people’s lives changed through great resources, provoked him to start the new Christian audio book company, LongTrain Audio.
Alistair was a local church pastor & preacher for a number of years.
He also advises companies about digital media & marketing.
MIKE SANDEMAN
Mike has spent the last sixteen years in the Christian music industry; both as a recording artist in his own right and also as a session player, producer and audio engineer.
As keyboard player with the popular band Phatfish, he’s worked in many top-flight recording studios on both sides of the Atlantic and sessioned for the BBC.
In the last few years Mike has developed his own studio in Brighton where he’s recorded and mixed audio for commercial video productions (for companies such as Fruit Media and Reelwork Films), mixed band & solo artist records, and produced his own instrumental album for the Authentic Media label.
A small selection of Mike’s output from his Brighton studio can be heard at www.longcoastmusic.co.uk
RICHARD HERKES
Richard has been in publishing for over thirty years, majoring on editorial, production and rights management. He is a philosophy graduate, worship leader, preacher, and ordained minister on the leadership team of a local church.
He has worked with a wide range of authors, including Fiona Castle, Graham Kendrick, Floyd McClung, Terry Virgo, Jennifer Rees Larcombe, George Carey, Nicky Gumbel, Ronald Dunn, Tom Wright, Alister McGrath, Michael Green, Frank Peretti, Gerald Coates, Matt Redman, Mike Pilavachi, Andrew Wilson, Tim Hughes, Stuart Townend and many others.
Richard is currently Publishing Director of David C Cook (UK), the publishing wing of the creative music and book company Kingsway Communications
ENQUIRIES
