Laura (Parfitt) Druce

Director, White Pebble Media

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Laura Druce started White Pebble Media in November 2006 specialising in making high quality speech radio for all the major BBC networks and commercial stations.

As a producer, executive producer and editor Laura has worked on a wide range of output - current affairs documentaries, general feature programmes, religious programmes, live OBs, magazine sequence programmes, popular culture, arts, science, crafted social features, podcasts, as well as comedy, drama, children's, youth and quiz shows.

Laura Druce is a judge for the Sony Radio Awards.

Before White Pebble, Laura was Deputy Managing Director and Executive Editor of speech programmes at radio independent Unique for six and a half years. During that time she was Editor of the BBC Radio 4 weekly programme ‘Something Understood' and remains so as a freelancer. Laura managed a great team of radio professionals, some of whom she still works with, and also continues to make her own programmes. She was in charge of creative development and radio training at Unique.

Before that Laura worked at the BBC for 12 years producing for 9 of those across all networks – particularly Radio 4 documentaries and strands including Desert Island Discs, Loose Ends, live OBs, The Treatment for 5 Live, and many youth documentaries for Radio 1. She was briefly a reporter on Woman's Hour, youth and children's news and magazine programmes and held various administrative roles at Schools Radio and Radio 3.

Laura has a music degree.