Fuelling Change is a podcast series created and presented by Fuel’s Artistic Director & CEO Kate McGrath, which explores the role of the producer. Through interviews and conversations with artists including Khalid Abdalla, Rachel Bagshaw, ESKA, and Alan Lane, and producers including Louise Blackwell, Anthony Gray and Kate Scanlan, Fuelling Change looks at the evolution of the role of producer in live performance over the last twenty years, and what artists need from producers now and in the future. 

Fuelling Change was produced by Fuel and edited by SLAP – Sounds Like a Podcast. The research was co-commissioned by Clore Leadership and the Arts and Humanities Research Council and was supervised by Aoife Monks and Molly McPhee from Queen Mary University. Music by Dave Price. Transcription by Alice Roots. Special thanks to all of the research participants: Khalid Abdalla, Rachel Bagshaw. Kathryn Bilyard, Louise Blackwell, Ed Collier, Inua Ellams, Christina Elliot, ESKA, Anthony Gray, Alan Lane, Pauline Mayers, Kate Scanlan, Hannah Smith and Sarah Wilson-White.