Smooth Operations Productions Ltd is an independent radio and TV production company specialising in music documentaries and series. The company is run by John Leonard, who joined Smooth Operations in 1996 after a long and varied career with the BBC. It became part of the UBC Media Group in 2004. Smooth Operations has produced over 2000 hours of programmes, mostly for the BBC. Current weekly programmes for BBC Radio 2 are the Mark Radcliffe & Stuart Maconie Show (Monday-Thursday 2000-2200), and the Mike Harding Folk Show (Wednesday 1900-2000). We also produce the Bruce Dickinson Rock Show for BBC 6 Music (Friday 2100-0000) and are regularly in production with new programmes for BBC Radio 1Xtra, Smooth Radio, and BBC Radios 2 and 4. Smooth Operations created the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, an annual event since 2000, and has run the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award since 1998. We broadcast live each year from the BBC Radio 2 Cambridge Folk Festival in Britain, and specialise in management and coverage of major events as diverse as the UK Music Hall of Fame, the Mercury Music Prize, New Orleans Mardi Gras and Rio Carnival. Check out Past productions to see what we've done and In production for details of work in progress.