About us
Overground productions
Overground is a podcast and documentary production company based in London, founded by producer and broadcaster Jack Boswell.We take our name from the overground train line which runs outside Jack’s front door in Camden Town - in the early days, he would record voiceover in the quiet gaps between passing trains.Things have got more professional since then, although that same inventive and creative spirit remains in our work to this day.
Documentary
I wish you were never born
Our debut TV documentary, exploring Antinatalism, the belief that life is so bad that humans should stop having children and let our species go extinct.Vice call it "eye-opening” and Rolling Stone say "It will make you appraise your own ideals around conception, parenthood, social responsibilities, and stewardship of the planet... To use a cliché in earnest: this is a documentary that literally does make you think.”
PODCAST
Off the beaten jack
Our atypical American travel series, bringing you stories from the corners of U.S. which most people don't visit.
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The show won an ARIA two years in a row - Best New Podcast in 2023 and Best Speech Presenter in 2024 - and was recommended by The Guardian.The series covers everything from mental health, adoption and gun control to addiction, prejudice and sex work.
Jack Boswell
Bio
Outside of Overground, Boswell has produced Locarno Meets, a 20-episode series for the Locarno Film Festival, featuring iconic figures including Ken Loach. He was a producer and editor on The Lockdown Files, an investigative series for The Telegraph examining Matt Hancock’s leaked WhatsApp messages, as well as a producer on Weekend for The Guardian and editor for The Economist's audio edition. He was an associate producer on the feature documentary Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other, which received a special mention at CPH:DOX this year.
