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Nigel founded Loftus Productions Ltd in 1996 after a distinguished career as a radio producer at the BBC. His first work for the corporation was in 1979 writing the thriller Spy In The Sky for the World Service. In 1980 he joined the English By Radio department, before permanently moving to Radio 4 in 1985, and finishing up at BBC Talks and Documentaries.

Nigel was a keen listener, he was always interested in people and their personal stories. His gentle questioning and genuine attentiveness made him a charming and disarming interviewer. Nigel’s  programmes were distinguished by a lovely dry wit and perfect timing. He loved music and his use of it in radio was intuitive and deft. Along the way he won many prizes.   

At the BBC Nigel had developed bullet-proof formats like Document, where a document is a starting-point to shed new light on past events. In 1993 he won an American George Foster Peabody Award for a Document programme, The Unspeakable Atrocity, about the Holocaust. More awards followed at Loftus. These included Gold and Silver Sony Awards, the Chicago Third Coast Festival Gold Award and the Catalan Premios Ondas.

But Nigel always considered his real achievement at Loftus was creating a welcoming, relaxed environment where talent could develop and blossom. There, without a meter ticking, he could compose programmes, like Something Understood, and have the time to produce them to a standard he was happy with.

Before his death Nigel set up a new company, Loftus Audio Ltd to continue the radio and audio work. His creative presence is with us every day in our cosy office in Aldine Street. 

He is survived by Fernando Soares, with whom he joined in a registered civil partnership in 2007.  Fernando is the director of Loftus Productions Ltd.