Think Again’s Ian Parkinson has won a prestigious production award alongside colleagues at the independent radio production company, Folded Wing.

The innovative company, founded by our former BBC Radio 1 colleague Karen Pearson, picked up the ‘Indie of the Year’ award at the Radio Production Awards, the annual bash to honour the business of great work by radio independents.

Ian keeps his finger on the radio dial as the Executive Producer of the Jamie Cullum Show on Radio 2 (Tuesdays 7pm). The award is also a tribute to our briliant Technical Producer, Micky Curling, who works with Ian and Karen on a number of other Folded Wing productions too.

Congratulations to Karen and all the team at Folded Wing. Think Again Media is proud of you all. (See the proud winners below.)

Think Again's Ian Parkinson (far right) with Karen Pearson (centre) at the Radio Production Awards

Think Again director Marc Jaffrey has written a hard-hitting article for the first issue of a new magazine aimed at the music education sector. In it, he warns the sector is “on a burning platform’.

“2011 will be a critical year in the history of music education in England – one where music educators will either work together to determinedly put the fires out and build a more sustainable education platform…or fade’.

To read more of Marc’s article, you can download a special digital extract from the magazine by clicking here.