Victoria is an experienced producer and occasional executive producer of comedy for BBC Radio and BBC TV. With 17 years production experience - firstly for BBC Radio Comedy, and latterly for BBC Studios comedy - she has produced scripted comedy for TV and Radio, and panel shows, sketch shows, sitcom, topical comedy, and single plays for Radio.
On the TV side, she developed and piloted The Coopers Vs the Rest for BBC Two, and developed Trying for Apple TV.
As producer of Just a Minute, The News Quiz and The Now Show she has been responsible for three of Radio 4's flagship shows, (with a devout audience of some 3 million listeners weekly keeping her on her toes). She also looked after the UK’s most downloaded comedy podcast (BBC Radio 4’s Friday Night Comedy).
As a producer, Victoria won a Sony Radio Academy Gold award for 1966 and All That - with further nominations for A Series of Psychotic Episodes, The News Quiz, The Milk Run, and North by Northamptonshire. She won a Chortle Award for best radio comedy in 2016 for Just a Minute, and in 2019 for The News Quiz.
Along the way she ran massive open door competitions like Witty & Twisted, and The BBC New Comedy Award, and produced everything from The Milk Run for Radio 1, to Ed Reardon’s Week for Radio 4.
She was most recently an exec at BBC Studios Audio, where she oversaw the ARIA and APA winning podcast Jacob Hawley on Drugs and comedy-horror The Sink: A Sleep Aid for BBC Sounds.
www.victorialloyd.com