Christopher Sharp

About me

I started out as an engineer in a small London studio in 1999, before moving on to the Sound Company, where I worked for many years on a wide range of major broadcast, interactive, advertising and film projects. For a time, I was Audio Supervisor for Disney, supervising their feature film mixing at Shepperton Studios and foreign-language dubbing operations. I was later part of the team that launched Monocle Radio; single-handedly set up the live studio for On Broadcast; and tested and optimised Audible’s first UK studios before they went into operation.

Since going freelance I’ve worked on a variety of projects, including AAA videogames, feature films, BBC radio programmes and lots of podcasts and audiobooks. These days, I split my time between engineering and producing at London facilities, and running remote sessions, editing and mixing in my home studio.

Outside of work I like long walks, strong coffee, and old-school PlayStation games.

Selected credits

Television

  • American Chopper
  • This Farming Life
  • Deadliest Catch
  • Dragons’ Den
  • Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway
  • Mythbusters
  • NASA’s Greatest Missions
  • Countryfile
  • Songs of Praise
  • Rip Off Britain
  • Extreme Engineering
  • The One Show
  • The Hotel Inspector
  • Reel History of Britain
  • Dead Famous

BBC Radio

  • Gardeners’ Question Time
  • When it Hits the Fan
  • Fry’s English Delight
  • UK Confidential
  • The Reunion
  • Word of Mouth
  • A Good Read
  • Listen Against
  • On the Ropes
  • Poetry Please
  • Jazz Record Requests
  • Jazz on 3
  • Composer of the Week
  • Feedback
  • Mixing It
  • Off the Page
  • Book at Bedtime
  • Excess Baggage

Podcasts

  • From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast
  • Disclosure Investigates: Killer on the Ward
  • Flesh and Code
  • Your Art, Unlocked
  • Everyone Loves my Mother
  • How to Fail with Elizabeth Day
  • The Monocle Weekly
  • Best Friend Therapy
  • The Next Big Idea
  • Ex Libris
  • Comeback Coach
  • Space Boffins
  • Armstrong & Miller
  • Page
  • In Good Company

Games

  • Crysis 3
  • Hitman: Absolution
  • Total War: Three Kingdoms
  • James Bond GoldenEye: Rogue Agent
  • 007: Legends
  • Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III
  • Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly
  • Payday 2: Crimewave Edition
  • Wii Fit U
  • Moto GP
  • Mike Tyson's Heavyweight Boxing
  • Jambo Safari
  • Dropship: United Peace Force

Feature film and TV ADR / Mix supervision

  • The Witch (2015)
  • The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
  • Resident Evil (2002)
  • Sin City
  • Cars
  • Herbie: Fully Loaded
  • The Wild (2006)
  • Person of Interest
  • Code Black
  • Murdoch Mysteries

Audiobook directing and production

  • The Long Shoe - Bob Mortimer (Read by Bob Mortimer, Diane Morgan & Arabella Weir)
  • Alan Partridge: Nomad - Rob Gibbons, Neil Gibbons & Steve Coogan (Read by Steve Coogan)
  • Surviving to Drive - Guenther Steiner (Read by Guenther Steiner)
  • Unfiltered - Guenther Steiner (Read by Guenther Steiner)
  • Mr Wilman's Motoring Adventure - Andy Wilman (read by Andy Wilman)
  • One Sinha Lifetime - Paul Sinha (Read by Paul Sinha)
  • Eruption - Michael Crichton & James Patterson (Read by Clarke Peters)
  • Boy from the Valleys - Luke Evans (Read by Luke Evans)
  • Gangsters and Goodfellas - Henry Hill (Read by William Hope)
  • Inside Mercedes F1 - Matt Whyman (Read by Matt Whyman)
  • Shattered - Hanif Kureishi (Read by Art Malik)
  • Pitlane Lessons - Marc Priestley (Read by Marc Priestley)
  • Dying of the Light - George R.R. Martin (Read by Iain Glen)
  • The Woman Who Walked in the Sunshine - Alexander McCall Smith (Read by Adjoa Andoh)
  • Them: Adventures with Extremists - Jon Ronson (Read by Jon Ronson)
  • The Affirmation - Christopher Priest (Read by Michael Maloney)
  • Storm Tide - Wilbur Smith (Read by Sean Barrett)

Museum and exhibition content

  • The Tate Modern
  • The Science Museum
  • Hampton Court Palace
  • The National Space Centre
  • The Florence Nightingale Museum

   ‘How am I doing?’ I asked the director guy after the first session.

   ‘Fine,’ he said almost nonchalantly.

   ‘You mean I can actually do it?’

   ‘Of course you can do it,’ he said. ‘I wouldn’t have sat there recording you for four hours if you couldn’t. I’d have sent you home with your tail between your legs!’

   Despite the headache (which continued) and with at least two and a half days still ahead of me, that was all the encouragement I needed to get the job done.

   Guenther Steiner on Chris Sharp, from 'Unfiltered', Penguin Random House

   It was Chris and Dolly [Alderton] who, in their own gentle ways, gave me the reassurance I needed. Both of them felt it would be helpful to others. [...] So I put [the podcast] out there and waited to see what might happen.

   Elizabeth Day, from 'How to Fail: Everything I've Learned From Things Going Wrong', 4th Estate